District Attorney, Northern District
Source: electionstats.state.ma.us
What does this office do?
- Deciding which crimes get charged and which are dropped
- Making plea deals and asking for sentences
- Working with police on criminal cases
Affects: Anti-Corruption, Public Safety and Crime Control, Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties,
Candidates:
David Marc Solet
Did not advanceDemocratic · lost
David Solet has been a prosecutor for twenty-four years and served as Chief of the Middlesex County Cold Case Homicide Unit from 2019 to 2025, investigating hundreds of unsolved homicides. He was honored as Middlesex County Prosecutor of the Year in 2025.
Marian T. Ryan
AdvancedDemocratic · Incumbent · advanced
Marian T. Ryan has been the Middlesex County district attorney since 2013 and is a longtime trial and appeals prosecutor. She has started diversion programs for youth and drug cases, stopped asking for cash bail in low-level cases, and built a unit to review possible wrongful convictions.
Records: Criminal Justice and Civil Liberties 6 for, Public Safety and Crime Control 6 for, Civil Rights 5 for,
Sources: sec.state.ma.us · bostonglobe.com