Legal community split over landmark SJC decision to offer parole to ‘emerging adults’ convicted of 1st-degree murder
SPRINGFIELD — Twenty-year-old Nickolas Lacrosse stabbed his ex-girlfriend, standout high school student Kathryn Mauke, 32 times at her home in 2015. He was convicted by a jury in 2018 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.But after a landmark decision by...