This Boston criminal lawyer has been around long enough to recognize what may be the tip of an upcoming criminal justice iceberg. Late last week, three Everett residents were brought in and arraigned on various possession charges. They stand charged with Massachusetts gun and drug charges. Included in the listing…
A few words of alleged wisdom to our younger readers and those who love them. School is not quite over yet! Parties are for good times spent with friends! Stabbing people in throwing bricks at them do not qualify as fun times! They qualify as felonies, such as Massachusetts assault…
Today, I bring you a case that I have already told you I feel is “disgustingly unreasonable”. It is a case that takes what I have warned you might happen and shown you that it is already happening. It involves the loss of one of the most basic of Constitutional…
In my last Attorney Sam’s Take I told you I would discuss the other high profile court case taking place on Wednesday. The other matter took place at Boston’s federal court. That’s right, the Boston Massacre bombing case. However, there is a twist to this posting. One that could have…
Yesterday both Salem and Boston were buzzing with high profile matters. First, let’s discuss Salem and then, later today, Boston. Salem’s figure of interest was John Burbine, 49, of Wakefield (hereinafter, the “Defendant”). The Defendant stands charged with Massachusetts sexual assault. Prior to yesterday’s court date, the Defendant was facing…
The Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog has discussed the suggested procedure when law enforcement is upon you and investigating you for a possible crime. I have maintained that the safest practice is to not try to out-run, out-talk or out-fight the investigators. I suggest you invoke your right to an attorney…
Ok, I admit it. Since all the action with the Boston Marathon bombing, Attorney Sam’s Take has been fairly quiet. No, it is not that there have been no further drug, gun or assault arrests in the Commonwealth. It is not even that there was a dearth of things to…
A Norwood man was arrested and charged with the crime of distribution of a class C drug. The drug was nor cocaine, heroin or even marijuana. In fact it is a commonly prescribed medication. The drug was Adderall. The description reads like your typical observation sale type of criminal investigation.…
If you thought that decriminalizing marijuana in Massachusetts would make the use of the drug easier and less complicated…think again. On the state side, prosecutions for possession of over an ounce or possession with the intent to distribute the stuff continue. As far as federal law enforcement, of course, it…
34-year-old Aisling Brady McCarthy (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) is one of the latest Massachusetts assault or murder defendants who are female. The Defendant is also the second Irish nanny to be charged in Middlesex County in a high-profile murder case involving the death of a baby in her care. Last week,…