Lawyers Journal
By Bill Archambeault
Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice
Margaret H. Marshall delivered a dire warning in her 10th Annual
Address to the Legal Community: "Justice is in jeopardy in
Massachusetts," she told nearly 200 people at the John Adams
Courthouse on Oct. 21. Marshall, who was recognized with the
Massachusetts Bar Association's Chief Justice Edward F. Hennessey
Award on her tenth anniversary as chief justice, used the
annual speech to convey how serious the situation is, rather than
chart how much progress the courts have made, as she has done in
past years.
By PATTY MORIN FITZGERALD
The mustachioed high school senior
sneered as the much shorter, and more earnest, 13-year-old wearing
a bow tie questioned him on the stand. "By the end of the
cross-examination, I got the smirk off his face," says the
questioner, Joshua McGuire, still satisfied with the victory some
21 years later.