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Massachusetts judicial system
Prior to Chapter 478 of the Acts of 1978, all trial courts in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts were county or local courts funded through the counties. The Acts of 1978 reorganized the system into seven Trial Court Departments: the Boston Municipal Court, the District Court, the Housing Court, the Juvenile Court, the Probate and Family Court and the Superior Court. The Acts of 1992 reorganized courts in the Commonwealth again. The seven Trial Court Departments remain, but each now includes a Chief Justice and a central office with a Chief Justice for Administration and Management. [1]
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Boston, Massachusetts: The Massachusetts Supreme Court overturned, on Friday, February 5, the convictions of a man accused of sending explicit messages through an online chat to a minor. The Supreme Court threw out the convictions saying that the law bans the sending of "any matter harmful to minors" including "handwritten or printed material," and since online chats are technically neither, the man is not guilty of any crime. States across the country are now reviewing sexual predator laws in order to close this apparent loophole.[1] [2]
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