Afternoon Briefs: State justice contracts COVID-19; $50M verdict upheld for man kept in police storage room

Completed foreclosures in Massachusetts dropped 7.7 percent in February and foreclosure petitions dropped by nearly 40 percent, according to data released Tuesday. The Warren Group reported Tuesday that foreclosure petitions, which mark the first step in the foreclosure process, were down by 37.7 percent in February — having dropped from 1,264 in February 2016 to…