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Assistant district attorney Patrick Haggan makes closing arguments as images showing tattoos belonging to former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez are displayed on a screen during Hernandez's double murder trial at Suffolk Superior Court, Thursday, April 6, 2017, in Boston. Hernandez is on trial for the July 2012 killings of Daniel de Abreu and Safiro Furtado who he encountered in a Boston nightclub. The former NFL player is already serving a life sentence in the 2013 killing of semi-professional football player Odin Lloyd. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, Pool)

Hernandez On Trial for 2012 Double Murder

by Denise Lavoie The Associated PressApril 7, 2017

FILE - In this March 16, 2017, file photo, Barry Cadden arrives at the federal courthouse in Boston. A verdict has been reached Wednesday, March 22, 2017, in the case. Cadden, president of New England Compounding Center, faces multiple counts in a fungal meningitis outbreak from tainted steroids manufactured by the pharmacy, which killed dozens and sickened hundreds of people in 2012. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Ex-Pharmacy Exec Convicted in Deadly Meningitis Outbreak

by Denise Lavoie AP Legal Affairs WriterMarch 22, 2017

U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz, left, takes questions from reporters as Mary Rizzo, center, mother of 19-year-old murder victim Jonathan Rizzo, listens during a news conference at federal court, Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, in Boston. Gary Lee Sampson, who was convicted of killing two Massachusetts men in 2001 carjackings, was sentenced Monday, Jan. 9, 2017, to death for the slaying of Jonathan Rizzo, and life in prison for the killing of 69-year-old Philip McCloskey. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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Man Who Killed Two Mass. Men Gets Death Penalty

by Denise Lavoie AP Legal Affairs WriterJanuary 11, 2017

FILE - In a Nov. 22, 2013 file photo, former state chemist Annie Dookhan sits in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston, before a hearing where she entered a guilty plea on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and tampering with evidence. Dookhan, has already completed a three-year prison sentence for those charges. But many of the defendants whose drug samples she handled still haven’t gotten their day in court to challenge their convictions. (David L Ryan/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool, File)

Mass. Drug Cases Could Be Dismissed

by Denise Lavoie AP Legal Affairs WriterNovember 13, 2016

FILE - In this April 21, 2010, aerial file photo, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 50 miles southeast of Venice on Louisiana's tip. Environmental activists Karen Savage and Cherri Foytlin wrote an article criticizing a company that published a study finding no connection between chemicals released by the explosion and health problems reported by some cleanup workers. Massachusetts' highest court will hear arguments Oct. 7, 2016, in a bid by Savage and Foytlin to throw out a defamation lawsuit filed by the company, siting a state law that protects citizens exercising their free speech rights. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

Oil Spill Article Lawsuit to Be Heard in Mass.

by Denise Lavoie AP Legal Affairs WriterOctober 2, 2016

Nathan Carman, center, disembarks from a small boat at the US Coast Guard station in Boston, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2016. Carman spent a week at sea in a life raft before being rescued by a passing freighter. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

Rescued Man Tells of Search for Mother

by Denise Lavoie Associated PressSeptember 27, 2016

FILE - In this July 23, 2003 file photo, Steven Caruso sits in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass. Caruso, 48, is charged with murder in the January 2000 death of Sandra Berfield. Caruso is serving a life sentence for killing Sandra Berfield in 2000 with a pipe bomb in a package that exploded on her porch. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is scheduled to hear arguments in his appeal on Sept. 9, 2016. (George Martell/Boston Herald via AP, Pool)

Appeal in Mass. Mail Bomb Killing

by Denise Lavoie AP Legal Affairs WriterSeptember 4, 2016