Understanding Mandatory Minimum Sentencing for Drugs in Massachusetts

Drug dealing is a business. There are retailers — dealers who sell primarily to users — and there are wholesalers — dealers who sell primarily to lower-level dealers. Wholesale transactions are generally larger and our laws penalize larger transactions more heavily.

Sen. Brownsberger Receives Letter from MA Police Organizations in Support of Baker Bill

Senator Brownsberger, Senate Chair of the Joint Committee on the Judiciary, received a joint letter from the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association and the Major City Police Chiefs Association in support of H.3780, which was filed by Governor Baker in response to the Supreme Judicial Court’s Lunn v. Commonwealth, as reported by the State House …