The Governor has approved the House-Senate agreement on a new sentencing structure for juveniles convicted of first degree murder.
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Campus Rape
Jonathan Kamens urges that Massachusetts take a leadership role in restricting the ability of colleges and universities to adjudicate cases of alleged sexual assault internally rather than through local law enforcement.
Decedent’s Electronic Assets
Jim Berets asks about proposals at the state level to address the ownership of electronic assets of deceased residents.
Undocumented immigrant children in Massachusetts
This news story from WickedLocal Bedford reveals what is accurate and what is inaccurate about reports of planeloads of undocumented children landing at Hanscom Air Force Base.
Sentencing Juveniles for Murder
The Senate has acted on Senate 2246, which is intended to respond to the Supreme Judicial Court’s decision in the Diatchenko case.
The Supreme Court’s Buffer Zone Ruling
Victoria Wu asks about specific commitments from Will, on issues of women’s privacy seeking health care, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions on abortion and contraception.