This has been an upsetting week for Massachusetts law enforcement. Yesterday, we discussed how Boston’s prosecuting attorneys are upset with a particular judge. Now, law enforcement in general is upset with a ruling handed down by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. The ruling primarily effects the Massachusetts search and seizure…
Boston’s District Attorney, Daniel F. Conley , is unhappy. So, apparently are some of his underlings. Nasty Ol’ Judge Raymond G. Dougan Jr., first justice of Boston Municipal Court, is too liberal for the prosecutor. Now, once again politicalizing the judicial branch, the prosecutors are trying to get the judge…
Two Roxbury teenagers, their friends, supporters and detractors appeared in Roxbury District Court yesterday. The event at issue was the MBTA bus debacle from earlier in the week. I would say it was one in a few MBTA recent debacles, but I suppose that would be unkind. Felix Garcia, 18,…
Massachusetts campus crime. It’s been a problem for quite awhile. How often do we hear stories about a Boston University student raped? A trial is coming up in the Cambridge murder on the campus of Harvard University. And…of course…we have heard several stories about on campus Worcester bullying or Brockton…
Robert Oliva, 66, won five New York City championships as the coach at Christ the King Regional High School. Mr. Oliva (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) has now returned to Massachusetts. The Defendant has come back to answer charges of Boston sexual assault on children dating to the 1970s. His answer was…
Fritz Olmande, 50, hereinafter the “Defendant” ended his week as a convicted Massachusetts sex offender. The Defendant was found guilty of the repeated Jamaica Plain, MA, rape of a girl over the period of 3 years when she was between 5 and 7 years old. According to the Commonwealth, the…
It should come as no surprise that law enforcement and safety personnel undergo Boston drug, and other, tests. The results are actually pretty impressive. Since the Menino administration launched random drug testing of Boston firefighters last fall, 57 percent of the Fire Department’s union members have been tested – and…
A Boston police officer collided in Mattaphan with a Boston fire truck yesterday afternoon While Boston Fire Department Ladder 29 was on its way to a reported car accident, and had its lights and siren activated at about 3:40 p.m., it crashed into the police officer who was driving home…
…And speaking about warning kids, there is the story about the party that has led a bunch of them to the mass arrest of 52 people Friday night. Impressingly, the kids were dressed up for the occasion. The party was themed “Business Hoes and Ceos”, and the kids were all…
Over the past year, Massachusetts motor vehicle laws have changed a bit. For example, we now have a law against texting while driving. Apparently, our neighbor to the south, Rhode Island, would like to take anti-text laws a step further. In fact, the legislatvie battle is on to create a…