A Boston Municipal Court judge has dropped the assault and battery with a dangerous weapon charges against Massachusetts State Trooper Joseph Boike for his involvement in a Hub bar brawl with a software engineer and two football players from Boston College in August. Boike has been a Massachusetts trooper for…
The Massachusetts Turnpike Authority reportedly set a $2.3 million Dig speeding ticket goal for next year-that’s $1.7 million more than 2007. Motorists in the Boston area are expected to be hardest hit by this new target mark, which came about after the Big Dig Tunnel’s collapse, which deplete trooper resources…
US States are reconsidering and, in certain instances, retooling juvenile sentencing laws in regards to whether it makes sense to charge juveniles as adults. Not only are there less incidents of juvenile crimes now than 20 years ago, but some states are responding to new information about the adolescent brain,…
In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Sentencing Commission wants to retroactively reduce the prison sentences of approximately 19,500 federal inmates convicted of crack cocaine charges. The decision is intended to lighten sentences retroactively for certain crimes related to crack cocaine and narrow the disparity between sentences for cocaine powder and…
In Massachusetts’s Suffolk County, a grand jury indicted former federal prosecutor Philip Giordano on charges that he stole at least $150,000 from his former law firm. The Boston native’s arraignment will take place in Suffolk Superior Court on January 15, 2008.He faces charges that he made false entries in a…
In Massachusetts, Eber A. Rivera, a 23-year-old Framingham homeless man was arrested on Saturday and charged in the stabbing attack of a Framingham resident on Beaver Street. Charges include assault and battery with a dangerous weapon; assault with the intent to commit a felony; assault and battery on a disabled…
In Massachusetts, the second murder trial of former Harvard graduate student Alexander Pring-Wilson has ended in a mistrial. Middlesex Superior Court judge Christopher Muse granted a mistrial in the case because the jury was hopelessly deadlocked. They were unable to reach a verdict after deliberating for 10 days. Pring-Wilson, 29,…
The mother and stepfather of 2-year-old Riley Ann Sawyers now face capital murder charges in the death of the little girl. The decision was made by a grand jury in Texas where Kimberly Dawn Trenor, 19, and Royce Clyde Zeigler II, 24, will stand trial. Prosecutors are deciding whether to…
44-year-old Stevie Walker is on Trial in Suffolk Superior Court for the November 4, 2005 stabbing murder of Galina Kotik, a 65-year-old Russian grandmother, inside her Fenway apartment building in Boston. Walker had been smoking crack cocaine for up to 24 hours before he went to Kotik’s building to visit…
The FBI says that the number of hate crimes committed in the United States grew by almost 8%, with racism being the reason for more than 50% of the incidents. In 2006, police in the US reported 7,722 crimes occurred because of prejudice against someone due to their sexual orientation,…