Judge Maria I. Lopez said yesterday she regrets labeling a child sexual assault case "low-level" and wishes she had not scolded the case prosecutor during an infamous courtroom flare-up two years ago.

Judge Maria I. Lopez placed four men charged with sex crimes on probation in Middlesex Superior Court this spring, The Boston Sunday Globe reported. Three of the men were charged with raping or ...

BOSTON — The last time controversial former Superior Court Judge Maria Lopez stared into a television camera she was yelling at a prosecutor, telling him to “sit down,” during a sentencing ...