Description: Cameras in the courtroom for the first time. Supreme Judicial Court. Five justices enter and take seats on bench. Chief Justice Edward Hennessey calls first case. Defense attorney John McBride presents appeal of life sentence in murder case Commonwealth v. St. Germain.
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.
Description: Photos of Chad Green with his parents Jerry and Diana. He had leukemia and parents wanted him to be treated with laetrile in Mexico rather than the court ordered conventional chemotherapy.
Description: Judge Paul Liacos is nominated Chief Justice of state Supreme Judicial Court. He is applauded for attention to overcrowded jails and decrepit courthouses. Robert Rufo.
Description: Superior Court Chief Justice Robert Steadman explains that case backlog burdens state judicial system. Rows of files, paperwork stacked in offices, clerk and judge in courtroom.
Description: Jury vindicates all but one police officer in Eligha Pate "deadly force" case. Ray Flynn says civilian review board is unnecessary. Graduation ceremony of Boston police cadets.