The heir of a home owner who didn't pay full property taxes for a year can't get the property back now that the town has foreclosed on it, the Massachusetts Appeals Court ruled Friday.
Nor does the heir get anything from the value of the house and land – even though the tax bill arrearage amounted to a little more than a thousand dollars.
A driver who admitted drinking two shots of whiskey and taking oxycodone and another prescription drug before blacking out and hitting a pedestrian and about a dozen cars should not have been held without bail under the state's dangerousness law, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday.
That's because the state statute that allows detaining a person after a dangerousness hearing does not specifically mention the crimes the driver was charged with – which were manslaughter and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury.
