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Jury instructions, also known as charges or directions, are a set of legal guidelines given by a judge to a jury in a court of law. They are an important procedural step in a trial by jury , and as such are a cornerstone of criminal process in many common law countries .
Superior Court; District Court; Land Court; Housing Court; Juvenile Court; Probate and Family Court; Boston Municipal Court; In the District Court Department, appeals in certain civil cases are made first to the Appellate Division of the District Court before being eligible for appeal to the Appeals Court. After a decision by the Appeals Court ...
The Federal Public Defender's Office represents individuals who cannot afford to hire a lawyer in federal criminal cases and related matters. The office is assigned to cases by the district courts in three districts (New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts), and by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
Massachusetts Housing Court [8] Massachusetts Juvenile Court [9] Massachusetts Probate and Family Court [10] Administrative courts. Massachusetts Appellate Tax Board [11] Massachusetts Division of Labor Relations [12] Federal courts located in Massachusetts. United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (headquartered in Boston, having ...
The Massachusetts judge presiding over the Karen Read murder trial ordered the jury to continue deliberations after the jurors sent a note Friday saying they could not reach a unanimous verdict.
In civil matters, District Court judges conduct both jury and jury-waived trials, and determine with finality any matter in which the likelihood of recovery does not exceed $25,000. The District Court also tries small claims anticipated to involve up to $7,000 [ 1 ] (initially tried to a magistrate, with a defense right of appeal either to a ...
Massachusetts Audubon Society (“Mass Audubon”) states that it is a charitable corporation, organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and Chapter 180 of the Massachusetts General Laws, without any parent corporation, that it has issued no stock, and that there thus is no publicly held company that owns any such stock.
The state's high court now says individuals 18 to 20 years of age at the time they committed murder cannot be sentenced to life without parole. Opinion: Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling ...