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House quietly acts to reassign Chelsea court

Proposal by O’Flaherty affects embattled ally

By Frank Phillips

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 15, 2012

The Massachusetts House leadership has quietly used a late-night budget amendment to remove the Chelsea District Court from the state’s district court department and place it under the auspices of the Boston Municipal Court, long a target of patronage charges. The move, in the late hours of April 25, came several months after the chief justice of the state’s district courts disciplined Chelsea’s clerk magistrate, Kevin G. Murphy, for failing to maintain custody of three handguns that were supposed to be in his custody.

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