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After the Twitchell verdict

Description: David Twitchell and defense lawyer and Christian Science spokesperson react to guilty verdict. Judge Sandra Hamlin gives jury instructions. Rep. John McDonough hopes to rewrite spiritual healing exemption in law. Laurence Tribe.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/05/1990

Bill of Rights walkway

Description: Bill of Rights is inscribed in walkway to Suffolk County Courthouse. Attorneys attest to need for funds to rehabilitate courts. Boston Bar opposes tax on legal services. Chief Justice Paul Liacos.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/03/1990

Boston Bar Association on crime

Description: Boston Bar Association pleads for better court system to handle crime, rather than more police.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/15/1990

Candidates on lax judges

Description: Bill Sawyer, Republican candidate for attorney general, decries findings about lax state judges and influence peddling in the courts. William Weld, Scott Harshbarger are also dismayed.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/27/1990

Confirmation of Zaleski

Description: Governor's Council huddles in smoky room and confirms judicial nomination of Margaret Zaleski, but does not act on Kottmyer nomination.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/15/1990

Dante Johnson case continued

Description: Dante Johnson is committed to DYS and then set free again on his lawyer's appeal. Victim's mother sits in back of juvenile courtroom and in hallway.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/09/1990

Dante Johnson discharged

Description: Dante Johnson, who as a juvenile killed a youth, is discharged from state custody because expert witnesses testify he is not mentally ill. Mother of victim listens in court, yells & throws purse at him.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/18/1990

Dante Johnson set free

Description: Dante Johnson, convicted of murder as a juvenile, is detained despite technicality which would set him free as an adult. Higher court then orders him released. Edward Loughran, Judge Mark Lawton.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 01/24/1990

Diane Kottmyer

Description: Governor's Council considers Superior Court nomination of prosecutor Diane Kottmyer. Wayne Budd and James Shannon endorse her. Others say she is too tough.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/18/1990

Dukakis on judges

Description: Michael Dukakis says investigation unnecessary of half day judges. Silber wants judicial conduct enforced. Judge Hiller Zobel on bench. Clerk looks up files, bailiff answers phone, dark courtroom. Dukakis signing autograph and at groundbreaking.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/28/1990