When we left off on Friday, we were discussing the recent Supreme Judicial Court ruling regarding investigations into judicial contemplation in certain cases. How does such an investigation get started? How do you think it gets started? Attorney Sam’s Take On How Judicial Investigations Get Started You know, it is…
Finally, there is some judicial pushback on what my various Attorney Sam’s Take comments has been screaming about. At least, perhaps it is a start. Maybe. It involves an appeal from the prosecution’s side. It failed. Boston’s Supreme Judicial Court, the state’s highest court, ruled last Friday that judges cannot…
Security breaches at airports! Cyber-attacks throughout the nation! Shootings and killings (although, as the commissioner tells us, simply bringing the numbers up to par) in Boston! Doesn’t sound too good, does it? No, it doesn’t. And I am about to tell you that it’s even worse.. Attorney Sam’s Take On…
This week, the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog has seemingly discussed two very different criminal matters. One was the white collar crime of cyber-crime and the other involved the other side of the criminal coin, violent crime. Shootings. Assaults. Murders. It would appear that the only thing the two blogs had…
Yesterday, we discussed the rather dismal view of cyber-attacks against the country’s computers and, in fact, against the country itself. The situation is summed up by the words of Mike Tuchen, chief executive of the Boston data security company Rapid7 LLC. He tells us that virtually all company networks will…
In the various postings of the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog, I have pointed out various areas in the criminal justice environs in which we are vulnerable. Often it relates to being unfairly treated in the system when one’s last name becomes “Defendant”. However, I also try to pay heed to…
As we have discussed in the past, one never knows what is going to happen when a criminal matter makes its way through the criminal justice system. This is but one reason if any criminal attorney starts making guarantees as to a particular result to you…it is time to run…
When I left off in my last blog, I was making the point that more people were apt to disagree with the old adage that it is better to let 100 people guilty people go free than to send 1 innocent man to prison. It is, by the way, one…
If you needed more evidence that the Commonwealth is in the mood to slam the cell doors shut on repeat violent offenders, you got it this week. In Boston, Governor Deval Patrick held a private signing ceremony on Thursday to enact a law which removes the possibility of parole for…
Sometimes the work of law enforcement is to send attention where extra attention seems to be needed. Given the recent motor vehicle accidents throughout the Commonwealth, the State Police seem to be doing just that. This time, they are not even bothering with a fancy name like “Operation Bad Drivers”.…