SPRINGFIELD — The state’s top court didn’t issue any full opinions last week.But it still made its position known in a handful of appeals — vacating judgments and ordering lower courts to hold new hearings in four previously decided cases.As opposed to the simple thumbs-up or thumbs-down vote given to hundreds of petitions for appeal, the justices gave more specific orders in two criminal cases and two civil cases Wednesday.The high court vacated a judgment in People v. Melvin Richardson, in which a …