Part Two: The Search On Friday, we began the tale of two gents who went from routine Massachusetts traffic stop to a whole mess of legal trouble. You see, Blake Balway and Michael Scanlan (hereinafter, collectively, the “Defendants”) had been stopped while driving. Neither had valid driver’s licenses. Therefore, in…
Are Massachusetts prosecutors no longer prosecuting illegal drug cases? There are some people in Massachusetts who seem to believe that their difficulties obtaining and using marijuana are about to become a thing of the past. They see the recent decriminalization of pot and actual legalization of medicinal marijuana to have…
This Sunday, the Chelsea Police Department had occasion to come to the aid of a suffering Venezuelan man. Well, sort of. It seems the man, 40-year-old Luis Sanabria-Morales (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) was found at the Wynham Boston Chelsea Hotel to be suffering from a potential overdose in a room which…
So, how was your halloween experience this year? Well, no matter how good or bad it was, you probably had a better time than Chelsea’s Miguel Antonio Rivera, 35 (hereinafter, the “Defendant”). Let’s put it this way…instead of candy, he was given the Commonwealth bracelets of shame. Then, after his…
Yesterday we discussed the recent car-stop-turned-drug-bust in which two people were arrested. The driver seems to have been arrested for driving without a license while the passenger (hereinafter, “Mr. Stoner”), was arrested for the usual jitney of drug possession crimes. Once this amount is seized, not to mention a scale…
Regardless of what you thought would happen after Massachusetts decriminalized marijuana…law enforcement continues to look for it. When a lot of it is found, well, that’s when police take a bow. Even if it is found totally by accident. Like the new Human Trafficking statute about which we have been…
Sometimes, when reviewing stories for the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog, I come across stories which almost make me speechless. Of course, that is a terrible thing for an experienced criminal defense attorney to be. Fortunately, Attorney Sam’s Take is written, not spoken. In any event, this is one of those…
…And the wheels on the criminal justice machine continue. including drug cases. Despite the recent Boston Crime Lab debacle don’t think for a minute that the Commonwealth is slowing down in its criminal investigations into drug dealing. Of course, some cases appear to be more stereotypical than others. You have…
I raised the issue of whether something was being done regarding the current Massachusetts drug lab fiasco other than arresting the scandal’s star performer Annie Dookhan (“Exchemist”). Well, we know that there is an investigation going on…limited though it may be. We know that District Attorneys are sickend at folks…
Welcome to October and, with the new month, we have even more developments in the Commonwealth’s drug lab scandal. Attorney Sam’s Take is happy to tell you that actual law enforcement actions are being taken! First of all, the former chemist at the center of the controversy, Annie Dookhan (the…