Jodi LaClaire Enters the Courtroom During Her Trial. (Kayla Rice/Reformer)
Jodi LaClaire enters the courtroom during her trial. (Kayla Rice/Reformer)
But in August, the Windham County state's attorney and the Vermont attorney general's office announced that all charges against Grega would be dismissed due to complications in DNA analysis. Nonetheless, the Grega case may not yet be … Caraballo was …
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Benton: Judicial picks continue to haunt Bay State
The Bay State today may well have the distinction of possessing the nation's most soft-on-crime judiciary, thanks to appointments made over the past seven years by Gov. Deval Patrick. Last week's … Jerry Brown refused to recognize the legality of the …
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The year in misery: 2013
A damning Human Rights Watch report released at the beginning of this year noted the U.S. prison system was characterized by “practices contrary to human rights principles, such as the death penalty, juvenile life-without-parole sentences, and solitary …
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Hundreds of new laws to go into effect
HB 2905 Increases the penalty for unlawful clouding of title. HB 3010 Allows for second chance probation under the criminal code for those who are convicted of a drug charge and it is their first offense; this does not apply to violent offenders or …
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