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The SJC – right only because they have the power – decided that life without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder was a violation of constitutional rights for murderers aged 18-20.
The Supreme Judicial Court issued a ruling on an appeal brought by William McDermott, who was convicted of murdering Robert Kemp in 1981 in Cohasset.
These young people were sentenced to die in prison for the reckless, impetuous acts characteristic of their youth, often in situations involving peer influence, writes Katy Naples-Mitchell.
A murder defendant whose lawyer slept during parts of the trial was denied his right to counsel under the state constitution, entitling him to a new trial, the top court in Massachusetts has ruled.
A former employee can move forward with claims that the nursing home where she worked wrongly fired her for refusing COVID vaccination