Ok, I admit it. Since all the action with the Boston Marathon bombing, Attorney Sam’s Take has been fairly quiet. No, it is not that there have been no further drug, gun or assault arrests in the Commonwealth. It is not even that there was a dearth of things to…
When we left off yesterday, Attorney Sam’s Take was discussing the concept of conspiracies. In a criminal conspiracy one merely needs to act in furtherance of the overall conspiracy in order to be charged as being part of that conspiracy. Let’s assume, for example, that there is a drug trafficking…
As you have probably heard, there was a rather large federal bust which took place toward the end of last week. When the dust settled, thirty people were facing charges in a crackdown on two street gangs who allegedly terrorized folks in the Bowdoin-Geneva section of Dorchester as well as…
This morning of September 12, 2012, Boston Police have announced that they are on the lookout for a woman who robbed a Citizens Bank and appeared to be pregnant in a surveillance video. Police acknowledged that pregnancy may have purely been feigned as a disguise but are still alerting the…
The Boston Police Department has been credited with collaborating with New Hampshire law officials and the FBI in what is being touted as a “significant international drug bust.” Yesterday, on September 4, 2012, the US Attorney for the district of New Hampshire, John P. Kacavas, announced the arrest of several…
A dumbfounding revelation has closed down one of Massachusetts’ three criminal drug labs. Governor Deval Patrick ordered state police to shutter the Hinton State Laboratory Institute in Jamaica Plain after a probe showed that the actions of a single chemist may have tainted countless articles of evidence. Such a disclosure…
The last Attorney Sam’s Take of the week is about a story which does not come from Massachusetts, although it could. It involves the federal criminal justice system and a practice which takes place all the time here in Boston’s Federal Court. It is the case of Elisa Castillo (hereinafter,…
Tales of Whitey Bulger hit the news again at the end of this past week. Actually, it came through the indirect route of Catherine Greig (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) and her upcoming sentencing. She is due to be sentenced next week and the prosecution has handed in a memorandum in which…
Hello. I hope you had an enjoyable, albeit alittle warm, Patriot’s Day. Well, at least in Massachusetts it was Patriot’s day. We tend to honor the Patriot’s of wars present and past by running the Boston Marathon. I guess that is a battle in and of itself. But that is…
The Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog has often decried what has happened to the so-called “presumption of innocence“. You know the presumption…that alleged one that we claim to be the foundation of our criminal justice system. I tend to say that, at least until trial, that seemingly invisible presumption may be…