Here is another tale of an free enterprise gone bad. The gent is from Medford. He is 28 years of age and his name is Casey Kolenda (albeit hereinafter, the “Defendant”). According to the Boston Herald’s story on the subject, found here, the Defendant has pleaded guilty to making and…
This is America. The land of the free and of free enterprise. Well, almost. 28-year-old Thomas W. Romano III (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) has learned that not quite anything goes in commerce. The lesson has been taught to him at Lowell District Court. According to the Lowell Sun, the Defendant has…
Well, for one thing, I don’t think this is going to help him very much in the lawsuit. I am referring to 45-year-old Arthur Burnham (hereinafter, the “Defendant”). It would appear that his sense of entertainment is not shared by Southbridge Police Department. Or the law, for that matter. You…
Jurors in Suffolk Superior Court found Edwin Alemany guilty of first-degree murder and 15 other counts, including premeditated murder, for the killing of Amy Lord. Alemany was also found guilty of attacking two other women before and after killing Lord. In July of 2013, Alemany kidnapped Lord from outside her…
Well, the jury came back in Worcester’s trial of The Commonwealth versus Raymond Grenier (hereinafter, the “Defendant”). The verdict…on the remaining charges…was guilty. Guilty of assaulting a sex worker (prostitute) as well as trespass. The allegations came from a June 15, 2014 incident in a Sutton cornfield. According to said…
Ian tells me that he was listening to NPR this morning during his travels when an interesting point was made regarding the ongoing investigation into the recent shooting of a 7-year-old Brockton boy in Dorchester. You can also read about it in the Boston Globe. Although the young boy has…
Well, the trial of 26-year-old Michael Stallings from Boston (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) is over. While it ended in a conviction, the defense is likely counting it as a “win”. The Defendant was acquitted of the top count, Murder in the First Degree, but convicted on the lesser charges of Involuntary…
The term “person of interest” has no legal definition, but generally refers to someone who authorities believe has information related to a crime. Although deliberately ambiguous to any suspicion of guilt, you can be assured that if law enforcement labels you a “person of interest” they believe you were some…
Maybe it’s because it is the “Live Free Or Die” state. Perhaps “living free” is interpreted as “lying about being free” in New Hampshire. Maybe. But not here though. Here it could have been a felony. According to authorities in Nashua, New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy was worried because he…
It is not a legal decision that is etched into the proverbial stone (if any are). It is not a decision by either the SJC or the United States Supreme Court. It is a decision from Superior Court. It, though, seem consistent with the case about which Ian discussed with…