CRIMINAL JUSTICE

Friends and family of Miguel Estrella gathered Sunday in Persip Park in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to remember 22-year-old Miguel Estrella, who was fatally shot by a city police officer a year ago.

Bradford Ferrick was charged with possessing child pornography and using a hidden camera to film child patients. The hospital is directing concerns to the U.S. Attorney's office.

Bradford Ferrick was a resident in Baystate's family practice residency when the FBI searched his homes in Amherst and Winchester, Massachusetts.

A new true-crime podcast called Up Against the Mob features Springfield's notorious mobsters who surrounded Adolfo "Big Al" Bruno, as well as the voices of prosecutors, cops, journalists and others who were involved after Bruno was killed.

Granby, Massachusetts, will now focus on finding who killed Patricia Ann Tucker in 1978.

Two Springfield police officers convicted of an off-duty assault remain on the job after the Springfield Police did not overturn their respective reinstatements.

Christopher Hood, as well as another member of NSC-131, face racially motivated trespassing charges for allegedly displaying a banner on a highway overpass last July.

A collaborative study of plea bargains by the Wilson Center at the Duke Law School and the Berkshire District Attorney's office found some racial disparities in convictions, but not in sentencing, in Berkshire District Courts.

The trial has begun in the case of a suspended Springfield police officer in connection with a fight outside a city bar in 2015 involving off-duty cops and four Black civilians.

Prosecutors had sought six years for his role in the scheme to get the children of wealthy parents into universities. He was also ordered to pay more than $19 million in restitution and forfeitures.