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WORCESTER - One day before it was to begin turning over police disciplinary records that a local judge ruled it has been illegally withholding from the Telegram & Gazette for years, the city filed a notice of appeal in the case, though its top lawyer said no final decision to pursue the appeal has been rendered.  “At this point, there’s been no decision to make an appeal,” City Solicitor Michael E. Traynor told the T&G, calling the move a procedural one made to preserve the city’s rights.  A judge last month ruled the city has been illegally withholding police records from the T&G ...

WORCESTER — Three years ago Monday, the lawyer who handles appeals for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr. reached out to a colleague in Boston to ask about that office’s long-running conviction integrity unit.  “We have to get something going here,” the Worcester prosecutor, Jane A. Sullivan, wrote in an email just before 1 p.m. on April 19, 2018.  Pineiro alleged that police in those units routinely use excessive force, lie in reports, exhibit racial animus and fabricate evidence, and that Early was violating defendants’ rights by failing to inform them of officers w...