Several dozen more criminal cases were dismissed on Tuesday amid the ongoing crisis gripping the state’s court system, including that of a person accused of a machete attack in a Dorchester school parking lot.
Judge Tracy-Lee Lyons, the chief justice of the Boston Municipal Court, heard 45 cases on Tuesday at a so-called “Lavallee hearing,” named for the emergency protocol that requires some defendants to be freed and others to have their cases dismissed. The protocol has been in place for more than a month as private defense attorneys, known as bar advocates, have declined to take new cases amid a pay dispute.
Lyons dismissed 39 cases pursuant to the protocol. The remaining cases were not dismissed either because a person was not eligible to have their case dismissed or because they had their bail revoked in another case…