Last week, the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog spent the week discussing the issue of bullying and the over-reactive indictments paraded before a hungry audience by a local district attorney. Today, we return to high school. This time it is another high school though. The academic institution involved this time is…
There comes a time when any Boston criminal defense attorney is knocked almost speechless. Almost. Fortunately, this one can still write when that happens. It would appear that the law enforcement entities have come together and resolved several of the questions posed in yesterday’s Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog. The solution,…
It is always a serious situation when an officer fires his or her weapon in the Commonwealth. This one is no different. Boston Police are continuing their investigation of a police-involved shooting in the Boston area (Dorchester) over the weekend which left 19-year-old Manuel D. (hereinafter, the “Deceased”) dead. While…
A judge has ruled that 12-year-old Jordan Brown will be tried as an adult for the first-degree murder of his dad’s pregnant fiancé. If convicted, he would be the youngest American to serve a lifetime in prison without parole. Jordan is accused of using a .20-gauge shotgun to kill Kenzie…
Yesterday, a Plymouth County jury found Michael Riley, the 37-year-old dad of 4-year-old Rebecca Riley, guilty of her first-degree murder. He is sentenced to life in prison without parole. Per Massachusetts law, the verdict is going to be automatically appealed. Michael and his wife Carolyn are accused of using psychotropic…
One moment. One very bad moment following a very bad decision. Boston criminal defense attorneys see it every day. That’s all it takes to ruin, or even end, innocent lives….as well as guilty ones. It is a lesson that we witness played out on the Commonwealth streets this past Monday.…
Well, this week has not been particularly good on the streets of Massachusetts. At least three deaths in two days alone! Lots of fodder for lawyers. “Well, of course not, Sam”, you tell me. It was raining to almost biblical proportions!” Yes, well that ended on Monday. It’s been kind…
“Sam….what gives? You tell us that the next day’s Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog is going to be an unhappy one and then you disappear for the rest of the week? You call this “daily“???” I know, I know…sorry about that. Sometimes my responsibilities to my clients necessitate my irregular definition…
It would appear that the people of the Boston area dodged the proverbial bullet when Professor Amy Bishop (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) moved out of state. According to Alabama law enforcement, co-faculty members were not so lucky. The Defendant stands accused at the moment of gunning down said members at a…
Have you heard the one about the professor who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama on Friday? They say that Amy B., 44, (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) had been a professor there since 2003. But did you know that she had come from Boston where she…