Description: Victim's father accuses Judge Harry Elam of partiality in light treatment of defendant, son of a colleague. New law would make judicial misconduct inquiries less secret. Florence Rubin, Susan Schur.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/29/1987
Description: Roanne Sragow, sworn in as district court judge, requested Alan Dershowitz as speaker at ceremony; Gov. Dukakis forbids his attendance because of feud with William Bulger. Bellotti tries to be diplomatic.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 12/28/1990
Description: Roxbury Juvenile Court Judge Gordon Martin explains protecting rights of underage defendant, a suspect in murder of Mark Belmore. Photo of victim, site of crime.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/30/1990
Description: Roxbury District Court judges wary of mandatory jail sentences as deterrent to illegal gun possession by juveniles. Bartley-Fox law. Courtroom. Courthouse exterior. Confiscated weapons. Judge Julian Houston.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 02/20/1989
Description: Chief justice of district courts Samuel Zoll and Ernest Winsor of Mass. Law Reform Institute discuss what should be done to discipline judges whose performance has deteriorated because of stress.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/01/1991
Description: 10% of state judges are women. SJC orders study of judicial gender bias. Justice Ruth Abrams. Inscribed courthouse legend "Justice for All."
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/05/1988
Description: Michael Dukakis nominates Bulger aide Paul Mahoney to district court judgeship. Joseph Langone, James O'Brien. Governor's Council voting on another candidate, Evelyn Murphy presides.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/14/1990
Description: Interview with Boston Health and Hospitals Commissioner Judith Kurland. Exteriors, corridors and signs at Boston City Hospital. Black baby in neonatal intensive care at BCH.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/08/1988
Description: Walpole residents visit Boston office of EPA to appeal to administrator Julie Belaga to halt sludge landfill site in their town.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 03/06/1990
Description: Julius Lester, a black writer and activist, is controversial for his conversion to Judaism. He teaches Afro-American and Judaic studies at UMass Amherst.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 06/15/1988