THE STATE’S HIGHEST COURT is wrestling with a case centered on how to guarantee a fundamental constitutional right of the judicial system — the right of criminal defendants, even those too poor to hire a lawyer, to be represented by an attorney. But both sides in the case, as well as the SJC justices who […]
Scott Kafker
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SJC weighs appropriate penalty for supplying heroin
Heroin killed Eric Sinacori, a 20-year-old University of Massachusetts Amherst student, who was found dead by his parents when they visited from New Jersey in October 2013. A medical examiner concluded the cause of death was “acute heroin intoxication.” Jesse Carrillo, a graduate student at the school who had fallen into his own heroin addiction, […]