Your Cambridge work day is over and you return home. You are minding your own buisenss as you pick up the mail and bring it into your home. You have received something from the Clerk’s Office in Suffolk County where you used to live. You open the envelope and find…
Bridgewater’s Patricia A. Neville-Colp (hereianfter, the “Defendant”) is facing that issue right now. On Saturday night, the State Police say that she was involved in a car accident in Stoughton. They say that, due to her actions, two people are seriously injured and one person is dead. The Defendant will…
When the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog left off on Tuesday, a child was looking at the entrance to the criminal justice system – the MA juvenile system. There are many misconceptions about the juvenile justice system, just as there are about the adult system. Unfortunately, the person who pays the…
As a result of a Saturday night incident, a Massachusetts juvenile and young adult will not be returning to school today. One of the youths, a 16-year-old male(hereinafter, the “Defendant”) was arrested and charged with illegally carrying a Massachusetts firearm and ammunition. The matter is more than just another Boston…
Today is Labor Day. I am a Boston Criminal Lawyer. It is what I do in my days of labor. And so it seems appropriate to post this blog today, rather than this past Friday. Call it rationalization if you wish, but today we tackle the question to which I…
This has been a pretty bad week for you as far as the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog is concerned. Earlier in the week, you were facing two trials. Yesterday, you were arrested. The news is good and bad today. The good news is that you have not been arrested after…
The Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog has been warning you it could happen. It has suddenly happened…and it was the last thing you expected. You (or a loved one) have been arrested. You came home tonight after work and, just as you were sitting down to eat, you received company at…
Here is where we left off on yesterday’s (once again daily) Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog… You are facing going to trial for charges of Roxbury Cocaine trafficking and for Assault and Battery in a domestic violence case. You have reviewed in your mind the various evidence that could potentially be…
As this Boston criminal lawyer begins his 52nd year of life, I return to a question which has plagued the jury system since its onset. Namely, what should a jury hear? Many people believe, as we discussed in my last blog, that the rules which govern what evidence can get…
Yesterday, the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog began its discussion about the Massachusetts murder case of Lauren Astley (hereinafter, the “Deceased”). The gentleman accused of the crime(s) is 18-year-old Nathaniel Fujita (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) We looked at the Woburn bail hearing which took place, including the prosecutor’s representations as to what…