{"id":18905,"date":"2025-08-05T17:01:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18905"},"modified":"2025-08-05T17:01:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T17:01:42","slug":"boston-judge-dismisses-over-120-cases-because-there-arent-enough-public-defense-attorneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=18905","title":{"rendered":"Boston Judge Dismisses Over 120 Cases Because There Aren&#8217;t Enough Public Defense Attorneys"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;Bar advocates in the state are among the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/boston\/news\/charges-dropped-massachusetts-attorney-work-stoppage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">lowest paid<\/a>&nbsp;in New England, receiving $65 per hour in Massachusetts compared to nearly double or more in nearby states, including Rhode Island ($112 per hour), New Hampshire ($125 per hour), and Maine ($150 per hour). Private practice work can yield $300 per hour. But, despite the stoppage, the 2026 fiscal year budget&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mass.gov\/news\/governor-healey-signs-609-billion-fiscal-year-2026-budget\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">signed<\/a>&nbsp;on July 4 by Healy didn&#8217;t include an increase in hourly pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/07\/25\/boston-judge-dismisses-over-120-cases-because-there-arent-enough-public-defense-attorneys\">https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/07\/25\/boston-judge-dismisses-over-120-cases-because-there-arent-enough-public-defense-attorneys<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Bar advocates in the state are among the lowest paid in New England, receiving $65 per hour in Massachusetts compared to nearly double or more in nearby states, including Rhode Island ($112 per hour), New Hampshire ($125 per hour), and Maine ($150 per hour). Private practice work can yield $300 per hour. But, despite the stoppage, the 2026 fiscal year budget signed on July 4 by Healy didn&#8217;t include an increase in hourly pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2025\/07\/25\/boston-judge-dismisses-over-120-cases-because-there-arent-enough-public-defense-attorneys\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[280,1637],"class_list":["post-18905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-criminal-justice","tag-lawyer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18905"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18906,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18905\/revisions\/18906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}