The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts listened to arguments about whether the names of 28 people accused of paying for sex at a brothel should be made…
The Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts listened to arguments about whether the names of 28 people accused of paying for sex at a brothel should be made publicbe made public? That's the question at the center of a legal debate playing out in the highest court in Massachusetts.The so-called"show cause hearings" are typically held behind closed doors and only become public if a clerk magistrate determines there is enough probable cause to move forward with criminal charges.
After NBC10 Boston, WBUR and the Boston Globe pushed to make the hearing open to the public, the Cambridge clerk magistrate agreed last December. However, she denied a request to make the court documents available prior to the proceedings. "What the public perception will be if these hearings are closed is that anybody who is not charged will have done so because they got some kind of preferential treatment behind closed doors," Pyle said.
"Just like grand jury proceedings, show cause hearings are presumptively private," Urbelis said."And that's so that the livelihoods and families of those during an investigation aren't ripped apart before there's even probable cause found."
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