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.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/14/1989
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.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/20/1989
Description: Chief Justices.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 10/21/1981
Description: Judge Darrell Outlaw gives stiff sentences to small-time cocaine dealers, delivering message that drug trade will not be tolerated on neighborhood streets.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/25/1988
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
Description: Interview with (?) Hennessy at the Federal Courthouse in Boston, MA re: crime, mandatory sentencing, prison levels, etc.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/15/1981
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
Description: David Twitchell testifies in Christian Science manslaughter trial for death of his son. He describes his own experience with medical care. Judge Sandra Hamlin.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 05/31/1990
Description: Defense attorney John Conwell supports judges accused of leniency toward drug criminals because the judges are protecting Constitutional rights.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 09/27/1989
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