Did you know that the Boston Criminal Law Blog is the number one read criminal law blog in Massachusetts? Thanks for that, by the way. Well, it looks like we need to tell our neighbors in Rhode Island about it too. After all, I began this week warning you about…
Well, the Boston Criminal Law Blog is likely to a be a bit shorter this week as we prepare for major battle in the criminal justice trenches later this week. There is always time, though, to remind you that, even in the times of hottest temper, it pays to keep…
Amy Bishop’s parents say that they will cooperate in the judicial inquest into the 1986 Braintree, Massachusetts fatal shooting of their son. However, they are adamant that Bishop shot him accidentally. Bishop, a 45-year-old University of Alabama Biology professor, is now charged with the fatal shooting deaths of three university…
Here is another arena in the Boston area where the hysterical cry of the Lawenorder Bird calls, “Softoncrime! Softoncrime!” The bird, considered a symbol of justice to some is seen as a predatory bird by others. Criminal defense attorneys for example. The arena is one in which only one-half of…
Today, the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog points out that there really can be “heroes” as well as “villains” in today’s modern, if not skeptical, age. It seems to also be a story of a suspect’s alleged consistency. It was this past Monday. It began when a 34-year-old woman parked her…
Message from a Boston criminal defense attorney to Ms. Kimberly J., 38 (hereinafter, the :Defendant”) – it is not as bad as you think. It is actually worse. The Defendant had been wanted by Massachusetts law enforcement in the alleged kidnapping Thursday of her half-sister’s one-year-old daughter. She has been…
Jayson Williams, the former New Jersey Nets player, has been sentenced to a five-year prison term for charges related to his covering up of the fatal shooting of Costas “Gus” Christofi, a limo driver that he had hired. Williams accidentally shot the 55-year-old driver on February 14, 2002. The fatal…
Well, it has been awhile since the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog covered one of these. It just goes to show that with all the mkhigh profile cases like those of a certain never-to-be-tenured professor’s alleged homicides, the Kerrigan family woes and assorted homicides we have been discussing lately, poor judgment…
19-year-old Browning Mejia’s Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer is arguing that his client should never have been indicted over a January 15, 2009 shooting in Hyannis. The attorney claims that witnesses did not convincingly identify the teen. Mejia is accused of being one of two masked persons to shoot a parked…
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…