Former Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson has been sentenced to serve 3 ½ years in state prison for accepting $23,500 in bribes. Wilkerson had pleaded guilty to criminal charges of eight counts of attempted extortion last year. In 2008, she was caught inserting $100 bills in her bra as part…
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Framingham Police Execute Search Warrant In Drug Case And Shoot 68-Year-Old Resident- Attorney Sam’s Take
Yesterday, we discussed that tragedies sometimes result from mistakes made by human beings. Yesterday, it was the Parole Board. Today, authorities are investigating a police-involved shooting in Framingham yesterday morning that has left a 68-year-old man dead, the Middlesex District Attorney’s office has announced. The word “homicide” has not been…
Massachusetts Murder Of Police Officer Continues To Provoke Attacks On Parole System- Attorney Sam’s Take
We live in a “when the going gets tough, the tough get blaming” society today. We continue to fall into the same behavior in the face of tragedy. Then we wonder why we have the same problems. A police officer has been murdered during a robbery t. The shooter, Dominic…
Massachusetts Armed Assaults With Guns And Knives Leave One Dead And Others Wounded In Lynn And Lowell- Attorney Sam’s Take
Well, if this past New Years Eve in Lowell and Lynn are any indication, we are in for another angry and violent year. Both Massachusetts towns were scenes of armed assaults, one of them fatal. Yesterday, Jameson Phoun, 20 , and Sothy Voeun, 19, both of Lowell, (hereinafter, the “Defendants”)…
Prosecutor Of Michael Jackson Homicide Case Tries To Get Experienced Criminal Defense Counsel To Reveal Strategy – Attorney Sam’s Take
The more serious the crime, the more desperate the prosecution becomes to predict the defense’s strategy. It is the one area in which the defense has a bit of an advantage. In a very public homicide case, outside of Massachusetts, case, prosecutors seem to be floating “trial balloons” to force…
A Woburn Police Officer Is Gunned Down At Robbery. Is Massachusetts Parole Board To Blame?- Attorney Sam’s Take
2010 is ending with a tragedy which many people believe could have, and should have, been averted. I am talking about the recent homicide of Woburn police officer John Maguire as he tried to apprehend robbery suspects during Sunday’s blizzard. The accused killer, Dominic Dinelli , 57, (hereinafter, the “Parolee”),…
Brockton Man Charged with 2008 Massachusetts Murder of Teenager at Baby Shower
20-year-old Darryene Ware, a Brockton resident, was arraigned on Thursday for Massachusetts murder. He is accused of fatally shooting 16-year-old Chantel Matiyosus as she was leaving a baby shower in 2008. According to police. Ware and a number of other people who call themselves “D Block” started shooting at the…
Natalee Holloway’s Mother Visits Her Daughter’s Alleged Murderer In Prison, Seeking A Confession – Attorney Sam’s Take
This is one of those stories from this year which would probably never happen in Boston. First of all, in Massachusetts, Murder in the First Degree carries a mandatory life sentence without parole. It leaves very little to work with when one is trying to make promises to suspects to…
Massachusetts Drug Convictions Against Two Somerville Brothers Overturned
Saying that the constitutional rights of Raymond and Ronald Mendes were violated during trial, Massachusetts’s Appeals Court has overturned their drug convictions: possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, and drug violation in a school or park zone. Raymond also had been convicted…
Attorney Sam’s Take: Massachusetts Criminal Court Is The Scene Of Unusual Sexual Assault For Which Clerk is Sentenced (Pt 2)
Today, as we “hunker down” and “enjoy” the last blizzard of the year, we continue the discussion about recent Massachusetts sentences that were recently handed down to fairly unusual criminal defendants during this holiday season. Today’s matter involves a meeting of sexual assault and prostitution. James M. Burke, 43, of…