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Massachusetts Police Officer Is On Trial For Assault and Battery With A Deadly Weapon

By Altman & Altman

Sometimes the memories of Thanksgivings past are ones you might prefer to forget. Take a particular North Adams police officer who was testifying at a criminal trial-his own, side by side with his criminal defense attorney. The events at issue took place last Thanksgiving. Officer Joshua M. (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) is on trial for two counts of assault and battery with a deadly weapon, one count of assault and battery, one count of witness intimidation, and one count of filing a false police report about the incident, which involved treatment of a Pittsfield prisoner. The defense is that because said prisoner was covered with his own excrement from the middle of his back down to the back of his knees, the Defendant felt he had fewer options in trying to restrain the drunk and combative man...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on November 25, 2009 (boomark / email).