{"id":166131,"date":"2026-10-26T07:14:35","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/26\/retired-mass-judge-faces-discipline-for-jailing-holding-public-defender-in-contempt\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T07:14:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T15:14:35","slug":"retired-mass-judge-faces-discipline-for-jailing-holding-public-defender-in-contempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/10\/26\/retired-mass-judge-faces-discipline-for-jailing-holding-public-defender-in-contempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Retired Mass. Judge Faces Discipline for Jailing, Holding Public Defender in Contempt"},"content":{"rendered":"

The attorney was handcuffed and placed in a holding cell with leg restraints at the Fall Rivers District Court for more than five hours before the judge withdrew the contempt finding and ordered his release, the complaint said.<\/p>\n

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The attorney was handcuffed and placed in a holding cell with leg restraints at the Fall Rivers District Court for more than five hours before the judge withdrew the contempt finding and ordered his release, the complaint said.<\/p>\n

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The attorney was handcuffed and placed in a holding cell with leg restraints at the Fall Rivers District Court for more than five hours before the judge withdrew the contempt finding and ordered his release, the complaint said. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The attorney was handcuffed and placed in a holding cell with leg restraints at the Fall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":166046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}