A handful of criminal defendants were released from a Boston jail Monday because they had not had an attorney for more than seven days. Four defendants were released. Two were facing drug distribution ...

Norman S. Zalkind, a renowned Boston criminal defense attorney whose career spanned civil rights struggles in the Deep South, antiwar protests during the Vietnam War, and many high profile criminal ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An accused cocaine trafficker, a man charged with beating a pregnant woman and a woman who had been on the Boston Police ...

Among roughly fifteen hearings in Lowell District Court on Wednesday, representing defendants from Lowell, Somerville, and Chelsea, three more criminal defendants were released from jail. This release ...