Article: SJC RULES IN FAVOR OF 2D CHANCE TO INDICT SAME CASE CAN GO TO ANOTHER GRAND JURY

Article: SJC rules towing probe was legal
The Boston Globe;  January 10, 1991 ;     539 words ... ... constitutionality of a 20-month Suffolk County grand jury probe into alleged car towing scams in ... jeopardized many of the 1,500 indictments the grand jury had returned in 1988 against 17 people ... obtain court permission to extend the grand jury session beyond its authorized three ...

Article: Jailhouse calls are not private, SJC rules ; ...
The Boston Globe;  September 12, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... that could have a sweeping impact on grand jury investigations and prisoner privacy ... Cabral was required to comply with a grand jury subpoena from Suffolk District Attorney ... of a prisoner. Citing the secrecy of grand jury proceedings, Conley's office declined ...

Article: SJC rules Lent can be tried here
The Boston Globe;  July 18, 1995 ;     471 words ...The Supreme Judicial Court yesterday cleared the way for Lewis Lent Jr. to be tried in Massachusetts in the 1990 murder of a 12-year-old Pittsfield boy, who was kidnapped in this state but murdered in New York. Attorneys for Lent had argued that Massachusetts must drop its charges because the death

Article: SJC rules man should get new trial in molestation ...
The Boston Herald;  February 18, 1999 ;     328 words ...A man convicted of 20 counts of sexual abuse of his stepdaughter should get a new trial because of improperly admitted evidence, the state's highest court ruled yesterday. The Supreme Judicial Court ruled in the case of Ronald P. Peters, who was charged in Worcester Superior Court in 1994 with

Article: SJC rules solitary cells not cruel.
The Boston Herald;  June 6, 1998 ;     656 words ...In a case being watched across the nation, the state's highest court yesterday ruled that punishing problem inmates by putting them in small, solitary cells is not cruel and unusual punishment. "Department disciplinary unit confinement, while uncomfortable, is a far cry from . . . barbaric," wrote

Article: SJC rules against state pay hikes OK'd by Dukakis ...
The Boston Globe;  August 14, 1992 ;     612 words ...Tens of thousands of state employees who have not had a pay raise in four years are not entitled to salary increases negotiated under former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis because those raises were never funded, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday. Union leaders reacted angrily to the decision.

Article: SJC rules on rents Voters may settle control issue ...
The Boston Globe;  July 15, 1994 ;     700+ words ...A referendum on rent control may appear on the November ballot, the Supreme Judicial Court ruled yesterday, giving voters statewide the power to abolish or maintain rent control in Brookline, Cambridge and Boston. The city of Cambridge had challenged the legality of the petition initiative on