Mass Live Why Mass. has one of the largest systems of involuntarily committing people for substance use disorder treatment Massachusetts has one of the largest systems of involuntarily committing people for substance use-disorder treatment. That’s according to Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health science at Northeastern University who served on the state’s Section 35 Commission.
Millions of Résumés Never Make It Past the Bots. One Man Is Trying to Find Out Why. But there is evidence that underlying scoring algorithms can shut out certain job seekers, said Kathleen Creel, a computer scientist at Northeastern University who has been following the Workday case.
Karen Read found not guilty of second-degree murder, guilty of drunken driving in boyfriend’s death Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University, said it was a mercy or compromise verdict, in which jurors opt for acquittal on the most serious charges but convict on lesser offense when they have doubts about the case but want to hold the person accountable.
Karen Read found not guilty of boyfriend’s murder in retrial At the retrial, both the prosecution and defense adopted a “less is more strategy,” moderating their approach based on what worked in the first trial, said Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who has followed both of Read’s trials. Both sides called fewer witnesses.
Earth.com Ocean plastic crisis goes way deeper than we thought The work, led by a team of Northeastern University marine scientists, characterizes a suspended “light smog” of synthetic fragments and fibers – many thinner than a human hair. These particles ride currents, mix vertically, and settle slowly toward the deep sea.
Things to know about the retrial of Karen Read in the killing of her police officer boyfriend Daniel Medwed, a law professor at Northeastern University who is not involved in the case, said it’s “quite possible it is heading for a compromise or mercy verdict, a split verdict,” in light of the questions.
Newsweek Pam Bondi Asked To Investigate 2024 Election Results Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, previously told Newsweek: “Irregularities in elections should always be investigated, but the sources of such inconsistencies, which can include error or miscalculation, are not always nefarious. Mistakes can happen.”
All aboard the Trump clemency train “Trump is using the pardon power freely and brazenly,” Daniel Urman, a Northeastern University legal scholar, told me. “The Jan. 6 pardons especially are really a way to rewrite history and frame the rioters and insurrectionists, including individuals who attacked law enforcement officers and others who showed no remorse, as heroes.”
Jurors are deliberating in Karen Read’s retrial. Here’s what to know. “It’s quite possible that they’re considering a ‘mercy verdict,’ or a split verdict,” said Daniel Medwed, a Northeastern University law professor who has followed Read’s trials.
ABC News Juneteenth festival organizers focus on ‘resilience’ amid attacks on DEI initiatives “The current administration has made it very clear in as many ways as it could that it’s no longer friendly to the idea that the country should continue to mark the racial history of the past as something affecting the present. They kind of want to wipe the history away and start from scratch,” Jeremy […]
Karen Read Found Not Guilty of Murder in Boyfriend’s Death Outside Boston Daniel Medwed, a professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University who closely followed the case, said before the verdict that acquittal struck him as a sound result, given the many problems with the investigation and the evidence presented at the retrial.
Mass Live How Beacon Hill bosses quietly buried reform bills that threatened their power Unfortunately, it appears our Constitutional rights were reduced to filing a bill in the bottom drawer of a file cabinet in the [House and Senate] clerks’ offices,” Peter Enrich, an emeritus law professor at Northeastern University, who sits on the coalition’s steering committee, said in a statement.