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
Description: Testimony continues in Judiciary Committee hearing on removal of Superior Court Chief Justice Robert Bonin. Bonin answers questions from Sen. Alan Sisitsky, Reps. Roland Orlandi, Paul White, James Segel. Bonin's wife Angela listens.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/25/1978
Description: Testimony in Judiciary Committee hearing on removal of Superior Court Chief Justice Robert Bonin. Sen. Alan Sisitsky presides. Attorney Paul Sugarman gives lengthy defense.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/25/1978
Description: Judiciary Committee hearing on removal of Superior Court Chief Justice Robert Bonin. Attorney Paul Sugarman answers members' questions. Rep. Max Volterra in audience. Judge Bonin testifies on own behalf, defending behavior under question: hiring three secretaries and attending Gore Vidal lecture on gay rights to benefit a defense fund.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/25/1978
Description: Joint Judiciary Committee votes to remove Superior Court Chief Justice Robert Bonin. Rep. Michael Flaherty reads resolution. Sen. Alan Sisitsky opposes bill of address. Reps. Kevin Burke, Jay Healy, Peter Velis, Daniel Pokaski, Mark Lawton, Alfred Saggese, Sens. William Wall, David Locke, Robert McCarthy, Paul White, Arthur Lewis.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/31/1978
Description: Suffolk County District Attorney Garrett Byrne gives press conference to ask Chief Justice Robert Bonin to remove himself from child sexual abuse case because of involvement in fundraising for defendant.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1978
Description: DRUNK DRIVING HEARINGS IN BROCKTON COURTHOUSE, JUDGE, OATH, LAWYERS
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/30/1984
Description: GENERIC COURTROOM FOOTAGE: JUDGE, WITNESS, BAILIFF, COURT CLERK
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 11/19/1984
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.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/09/1980
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