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Evidence that Federal Prosecutor Withheld in Massachusetts Gun Case Could Have Cleared Defendant

By Altman & Altman

In the US District Court in Massachusetts, Assistant US Attorney Suzanne Sullivan is asking Judge Mark L. Wolf not to impose sanctions on her for withholding evidence in a Massachusetts gun case. The federal prosecutor says that she made a mistake when she did not introducing the evidence and she is asking for leniency. The evidence that she withheld could have cleared the defendant. The federal prosecutor failed to reveal that the testimony that a Boston cop provided at a pretrial hearing contradicted what the office had told her numerous times. It was Judge Wolf who discovered that evidence had been withheld. In January, the judge dismissed the gun charges against Darwin E Jones, who was arrested in the 2007 Boston gun case, and a tentative plea agreement has been reached over Massachusetts drug charges filed against Jones...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on May 13, 2009 (boomark / email).