The Massachusetts Trial Court chief justice said major felonies, and especially homicide cases, in the Boston-area amassed after the pandemic upended operations in 2020.
A backlog of dozens of Boston-area first-degree murder cases built up in the Massachusetts justice system during the COVID-19 public health emergency, in some cases leaving cases pending for several years before trial, a top court official told lawmakers on Tuesday.
A Trial Court spokesperson said the figures Locke cited are summer 2021 data reflecting Suffolk County only. More recent data were not available. When Holmes asked if some of the cases tried dated back to 2018 or 2019, Locke replied,"Perhaps '18." "Perhaps so. I'd like to say differently, but it is the reality," Locke replied."These are, as you know, critically important cases, oftentimes defendants being held pretrial, unable either to obtain bail or to get bail because of the nature of the charge."
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