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The number one issue causing problems with people’s PCs is that they don’t restart their PC regularly. When you restart your PC, it clears the digital “crud” that builds up and clogs memory slowing the PC and making it unstable. Read more
SAVE THE DATE: The CPCS Annual Training Conference will be held on Tuesday, May 15, 2018, 8:00-5:00 at the DCU Center, 50 Foster Street, Worcester. Advance Registration is Required.
On 3/21/17 CPCS held its 4th Clients in Crisis simulation program. The goal of the Clients in Crisis simulation is to provide CPCS staff and private counsel with a snapshot of some aspects of daily life of a client living Read more
Op Ed submitted by Anthony J. Benedetti to the Boston Herald On the day Jeff Sessions was sworn in as Attorney General, the President signed three executive orders pertaining to criminal justice. More recently, Sessions issued a memo to federal Read more
Congratulations to Rebecca Jacobstein, a staff attorney with the Appeals Unit of the Public Defender Division and Ben Keehn, Second-Seat Appellate Counsel with the Public Defender Division. Lawyers Weekly recognized Ben and Rebecca as Lawyers Weekly Lawyers of the Year Read more
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will, as the attached article states, soon be weighing in on an important aspect of the rights of juveniles who were convicted of murder. Atty. Barbara Kaban, who was a valued CPCS staff member until Read more
Welcome to the February 2017 Q&A. This is our monthly installment addressing questions and suggestions received through the online suggestion box (top menu bar on the intranet). We respond to questions with agency-wide relevance, and we cannot answer questions that Read more
A. Commonwealth v. Fernando Perez, SJC-12251 – The case presents the following issue: Whether a juvenile convicted of non-homicide offenses and sentenced to 27.5-34 years in prison is entitled to be resentenced to a term that entitles him to a Read more
Amicus Request(s) CPCS Monthly Financial Overview Report Commitments $10,000 and Over Report Private Counsel Survey Results – Compensation Issues Increasing the Use of Associates in CAFL Cases Chief Counsel Report Executive Session
On December 8, 2016, the Springfield Republican ran an article entitled, “Defense Attorney: Video Disputes Springfield Police Report on Drug Suspect’s Arrest.” In response to the article, Deputy Chief Counsel Randy Gioia wrote a Letter to the Editor a few Read more