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A 41-year-old registered sex offender has been arrested on charges of Massachusetts indecent assault and battery on a mentally challenged person and rape. Peter J. Duart was jailed on Martha’s Vineyard.

He is a Level 2 sex offender. This means that Duart has been convicted of a sex crime that makes authorities think that he is in the mid level danger range when it comes to possibly offending again.

Massachusetts Sex Crimes
If you are charged with allegedly committing a sex crime in Massachusetts, know that prosecutors will likely aggressively pursue your case. Even if you did not commit the crime, there is a good chance that your reputation may be ruined and your relationships and professional life could suffer. This is why you should speak with a Boston sexual crimes lawyer as soon as possible.

You must get good legal representation. If you are convicted of the sex crime, you could end up in prison, be ordered to pay stiff fines, have to undergo counseling, and/or serve probation. You also will be permanently listed as a sexual offender on Massachusetts’ state registry. Anyone who goes to the registry will be able to access your name. If you have a prior conviction on your record, the charges against you and the sentence you may be ordered to serve can be enhanced.

Sex crime convictions that require that a person register as a Massachusetts sex offender:

• Aggravated rape • Indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 • Indecent assault and battery on a person age 14 or over • Indecent assault and battery on a mentally retarded person • Rape of a child under 6 with force • Rape • Rape and abuse of a child • Assault of a child with intent to commit rape • Assault with intent to commit rape • Kidnapping of a child • Drugging persons for sexual intercourse • Enticing a child under the age of 16 for the purposes of committing a crime • Living off or sharing earnings with a minor prostitute • Inducing a minor into prostitution • A second conviction for open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior (excludes a single or first adjudication as a delinquent juvenile prior to 8/1/92)
• Disseminating to a minor matter harmful to a minor • Incestuous marriage or intercourse • Unnatural or lascivious acts with a child under 16 • Posing or exhibiting a child in a state of nudity • Aggravated rape • Possession of child pornography
Registered sex offender nabbed on rape charge, Cape Cod Times, March 20, 2010
Information for Sex Offenders, Mass.gov

Related Web Resource:
Commonwealth of Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry Board
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Well, this week has not been particularly good on the streets of Massachusetts. At least three deaths in two days alone! Lots of fodder for lawyers.

“Well, of course not, Sam”, you tell me. It was raining to almost biblical proportions!”

Yes, well that ended on Monday. It’s been kind of sunny the rest of the week, which is when the deaths occurred.

For example, Bruce F., 46 of Salisbury (hereinafter, “Fatality #1”) was fatally injured when he was hit by a car after stepping into the right lane on Route 95 South in Newbury at about 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday night.
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Here’s a twist on the old saying, “it’s like pulling teeth!” A former Massachusetts dentist will now need a criminal defense attorney to defend against charges of “clipping” teeth..

I am referring to Michael C., 51, a dentist formerly of Fall River, but now of Maryland (hereinafter, the “Defendant”). Boston’s Attorney General has indicted the Defendant for a number of fraudulent…and related…criminal acts.

In short, the Defendant is charged with allegedly using paper clips in dental work and then billing Medicaid for the stainless steel posts he should have used. The Defendant also stands indicted on a charge of submitting additional false claims to the Medicaid program using other dentists’ provider numbers and illegally prescribing prescription drugs.

The complainants of the charges are two-fold. One, of course, is the program that was billed. The other are the actual patients who allegedly received the “treatment”.
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I live in the Boston area and, as I have mentioned from time to time, have kids. When I am not “fighting the good fight“, I try to spend some time with them. In this day and age, that will include some television. One of the shows we watch actually began when I was a kid…Scooby Doo.

Well, if your kids also watch the show, I suggest you hide today’s blog from them lest they lose all hope.

While on TV, Scooby is a hero, I have found a news story to shake the foundation of childhood fantasy.

Scooby has been arrested for heroin dealing.
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“Sam….what gives? You tell us that the next day’s Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog is going to be an unhappy one and then you disappear for the rest of the week? You call this “daily“???”

I know, I know…sorry about that. Sometimes my responsibilities to my clients necessitate my irregular definition of the term “daily”. But, late as it may be…here is the tragic story to which I referred.

It is the tale of Geoffrey W., 31, an MIT staffer from Malden (hereinafter, the “Defendant”).

Last week, the Defendant was arrested in connection with the death of his 6-month-old son, according to Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone. He stands charged with murder
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A 33-year-old middle school teacher who says she had sex with a student has turned herself in to authorities. Amy Beck is charged with one count of oral copulation with a person under 16 and four counts of unlawful sex with a person under 16.

Beck, a David Starr Jordan Middle School teacher, says she and 14-year-old student were sexually involved with each other from March to September 2009. He was 15 when their alleged relationship concluded. The boy has confirmed that the sexual relationship happened.

The school teacher says that she decided to come forward because she had been feeling remorseful about what transpired. Beck is married and has children.

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Yesterday, I had to go to a local Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles. Now, I am a lawyer. I have some idea of how some of these things should work. I am also somewhat knowledgeable about the system, bureaucracy and red tape, including how simple things can be made very unsimple. The result? I walked out about 2 hours later (the ticket I was handed said I would be seen in 8 minutes) and with my goal still not reached. Not only that, but this inconvenience resulted in the first time I saw the clerk perform what I took to beng the closest she ever came to a smile.

What can one do? Well, today I can take the small step of delivering a blog about the RMV!

Well, sort of.

I direct your attention to Framingham, where sits a Middlesex grand jury which has returned indictments recently against Mr. Ahmed S., 30, (hereinafter, the “Defendant”). He had been arrested a month earlier due to an investigation which apparently revealed that he was falsifying drivers’ licenses, the AG’s office said.
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Lest you think that Amy Bishop is the only person being haunted by Ghosts of Boston-Area Criminal Allegations Past, let me discuss with you the case of Bob O. (hereinafter, the “Target”). Suddenly, the Target needs a lawyer. A good one. An experienced one.

It was the summer of 1976. Sam A. (hereinafter, “Witness”) recalls he was strolling down the Boston streets when he ran into his friend, the Target. The Target was with a 14-year-old lad that we will call “Youth”.

“Gee”, thought Witness. “It sure is odd to find [Target] with a 14-year-old…” and then the thought of said oddity dissolved inside Witness’ head.

Thirty years went by. Witness and the Target became closer and closer, sharing a passion for sports. Over the years, the Target built up quite a reputation as a standout coach for the powerhouse basketball team at Christ the King Regional High School in Queens, New York.

Well, it looks like the friendship has seen better days. You see, Witness is now cooperating with Boston prosecutors presenting evidence to a Suffolk grand jury that the Target repeatedly molested Youth all those years ago, while staying at the Sheraton Boston Hotel.
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A second woman is now accusing Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger of sexual assault. The alleged incident is said to have occurred at a Georgia nightclub early Friday morning close to where the NFL player owns a home.

The football player and the alleged victim had been socializing with the same groups of people that evening. The woman, age 20, was treated at a hospital and then later released. She filed her complaint later that night.

No criminal charges have been filed against Roethlisberger, and investigators are looking into the allegations. Deputy Police Chief Richard Malone noted that the football player is not an official suspect in the case at this time, and witnesses are being interviewed. Roethlisberger’s agent has expressed skepticism that these latest allegation against the football player are true.

The Steelers quarterback is the defendant of a personal injury lawsuit accusing him of sexually assaulting another woman. The accuser, Harrah’s hotel employee Andrea McNulty, never filed a police report over the alleged incident and no criminal investigation ever took place. McNulty claims that the NFL player raped her after summoning her to his room to repair a TV.

Boston Sexual Assault Crimes
Sexual crimes are serious offenses that can lead to harsh punishments for those that are convicted of:

• Rape
• Statutory rape • Sexual assault • Child Pornography • Prostitution • Indecent Assault & Battery • Cyber Sex Crimes • Sex crimes involving children (ages 14 and under)
• Pornography • Lewd Conduct
NFL star Roethlisberger accused of sexual assault, CNN, March 5, 2010
Andrea McNulty Accuses Ben Roethlisberger Of Sexual Assault, Huffington Post, July 21, 2009

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More bad choices in the Boston area. Another defendant who needed a lawyer.

And now…another statistic. one more white collar conviction.

Richard W., 42 (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) apparently worked as a practice assistant in the ear, nose and throat department of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. From January 2006 through April 2009, he is said to have stolen more than $1 million by stealing checks written to the department and by seeking fraudulent refunds for hearing aids and other items.

This is called the white collar crime of embezzlement.

On the 3rd, the Defendant pleaded guilty before the Honorable United States District Court Judge Joseph L. Tauro to one count of health care theft and embezzlement, the US attorney’s office said in a statement.
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