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Last Entry: June 10, 2013 at 12:00:01

BOSTON'S FEDERAL MULTIPLE MURDER CASE MAY BE DELAYED AS THE BULGER TEAM OBJECTS TO LAST-MINUTE WITNESS EVIDENCE

Posted on June 10, 2013
Do not kid yourself. The case may be high profile, but these issues are hardly new. The only thing that might be regarded as novel is the variance from the normal rules by which the system treats the multiple murder case of United States vs James "Whitey" Bulger...

HIT AND RUN ON ROUTE 107 IN SAUGUS, CRIMINAL CHARGES PENDING INVESTGATION

Posted on June 07, 2013
If you were on route 107 like this Boston criminal lawyer this morning, and found traffic flow making you wish you were actually riding in on a turtle, the problem may have been a tragedy. Shortly before 5:00am this morning, a reported hit and run incident took place...

A BOSTON CRIMINAL LAWYER REVIEWS EVIDENTIARY ISSUES IN UNITED STATES V. BULGER

Posted on June 06, 2013
The federal trial may be beginning, but, as this Boston criminal lawyer can tell you, the attempts to control what evidence is presented to the jury continues. It will continue, by the way, throughout the trial. At the start of any trial, motions in limine are brought to get advance rulings on evidence and procedure prior to the attorneys even address the jury...

THE MASSACHUSETTS MULTIPLE MURDER TRIAL OF WHITEY BULGER BEGINS

Posted on June 05, 2013
This Boston criminal lawyer has been there many times. It is the prologue to war; the days and weeks before trial. The bigger the case, the larger the chess board. We may call it a quest for Justice, but make no mistake. For the witnesses and the lawyers, including the prosecutors, at the very least, the goal is to win...

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KENNEBUNK PROSTITUTION MADAME IS SENTENCED TO JAIL TIME

Posted on May 31, 2013
And so the coffin lid slammed shut on the Zumba fitness instructor, 30-year-old Alexis Wright (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?). She pleaded guilty in March and was sentenced today for the now infamous prostitution conspiracy in Kennebunk, Maine. The defendant originally had a codefendant who was alleged to have been part of the conspiracy...

Boston Police Arrest 75 During Roxbury Gang Raid

Posted on May 22, 2013
At least 75 people were arrested yesterday by the Boston Police Department during a targeted raid in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury. The raid, called ?Operation H,? took place around 6 a.m. Tuesday morning in an effort to crack down on drug deals and gang-related violence in the neighborhood before the beginning of summer...

?I AM BEING ACCUSED OF MASSACHUSETTS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. WILL I LOSE MY CHILDREN AND GO TO JAIL??

Posted on May 20, 2013
An allegation of Massachusetts domestic violence can affect your entire life. It can create irreversible harm long before you have a trial or resolve the criminal charges. This Boston criminal lawyer has handled many such cases over the past quarter century...

BOSTON GRAND JURY BRING WHITE COLLAR FELONY CHARGES AGAINST MASSPORT EMPLOYEES

Posted on May 16, 2013
As we have discussed many times over the past years, we are seeing more and more prosecutions for things that we barely even heard about, much less saw Massachusetts criminal prosecutions for... although we kind of knew they existed. Today, the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog brings you another one...

3 EVERETT RESIDENTS FACE CHARGES FOR DRUGS AND GUNS POSSESSION

Posted on May 13, 2013
This Boston criminal lawyer has been around long enough to recognize what may be the tip of an upcoming criminal justice iceberg. Late last week, three Everett residents were brought in and arraigned on various possession charges. They stand charged with Massachusetts gun and drug charges...

SPRINGFIELD HIGH SCHOOL PARTY IS SCENE OF MASSACHUSETTS ASSAULTS WITH DANGEROUS WEAPONS

Posted on May 07, 2013
A few words of alleged wisdom to our younger readers and those who love them. School is not quite over yet! Parties are for good times spent with friends! Stabbing people in throwing bricks at them do not qualify as fun times! They qualify as felonies, such as Massachusetts assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and potentially assault with intent to commit murder...

THREE DARTMOUTH STUDENTS ARE HELD WITHOUT BAIL IN BOSTON?S FEDERAL COURT

Posted on May 03, 2013
In my last Attorney Sam?s Take I told you I would discuss the other high profile court case taking place on Wednesday. The other matter took place at Boston?s federal court. That?s right, the Boston Massacre bombing case. However, there is a twist to this posting...

METHUEN TEEN HELD WITHOUT BAIL OVER ALLEGED BOMB THREAT

Posted on May 03, 2013
Today, I bring you a case that I have already told you I feel is ?disgustingly unreasonable?. It is a case that takes what I have warned you might happen and shown you that it is already happening. It involves the loss of one of the most basic of Constitutional rights that you rely on every day...

WAKEFIELD MAN FACES MULTIPLE CHARGES OF CHILD SEXUAL ASSAULT IN MIDDLESEX AND ESSEX COUNTIES

Posted on May 02, 2013
Yesterday both Salem and Boston were buzzing with high profile matters. First, let?s discuss Salem and then, later today, Boston. Salem?s figure of interest was John Burbine, 49, of Wakefield (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?). The Defendant stands charged with Massachusetts sexual assault...

A BOSTON CRIMINAL LAWYER DISCUSSES MIRANDA AND MAKING STATEMENTS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT DURING MASSACHUSETTS CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS

Posted on May 01, 2013
The Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog has discussed the suggested procedure when law enforcement is upon you and investigating you for a possible crime. I have maintained that the safest practice is to not try to out-run, out-talk or out-fight the investigators...

BOSTON?S FEDERAL COURT BEGINS TO DEAL WITH DZHOKHAR TSARNAEV?S MASSACHUSETTS MURDER AND TERRORISM MATTER

Posted on April 30, 2013
Ok, I admit it. Since all the action with the Boston Marathon bombing, Attorney Sam?s Take has been fairly quiet. No, it is not that there have been no further drug, gun or assault arrests in the Commonwealth. It is not even that there was a dearth of things to talk about...

MEN OF NORWOOD FACE CRIMINAL PROSECUTION IN MASSACHUSETTS PERSCRIPTION DRUG TRAFFICKING CASES

Posted on April 18, 2013
Alain Barbara of Norwood was arrested and charged with the crime of distribution of a class C drug. The drug was nor cocaine, heroin or even marijuana. In fact it is a commonly prescribed medication. The drug was Adderall. The description reads like your typical observation sale type of criminal investigation...

MASSACHUSETTS MARIJUANA HEARINGSTO START ON FRIDAY IN BOSTON

Posted on April 17, 2013
If you thought that decriminalizing marijuana in Massachusetts would make the use of the drug easier and less complicated...think again. On the state side, prosecutions for possession of over an ounce or possession with the intent to distribute the stuff continue...

MIDDLESEX COUNTY NANNY IS YET ANOTHER FEMALE CRIMINAL DEFENDANT FACING MASSACHUSETTS ASSAULT OR MURDER CHARGES

Posted on April 16, 2013
34-year-old Aisling Brady McCarthy (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) is one of the latest Massachusetts assault or murder defendants who are female. The Defendant is also the second Irish nanny to be charged in Middlesex County in a high-profile murder case involving the death of a baby in her care...

MASSACHUSETTS VIOLENT CRIME PERPETRATED BY FEMALE DEFENDANTS IS PUT OFF UNTIL MONDAY

Posted on April 13, 2013
As you may recall, yesterday's Attorney Sam's Take was as slated to continue the story of representing females in criminal cases Massachusetts violent crimes cases. Unfortunately, this post was unable to be made yesterday as planned. I apologize. However, it will greet you bright and early on Monday morning...

FRAMINGHAM TEEN FACES MASSACHUSETTS DANGEROUSNESS HEARING FOR KIDNAPPING AND RAPE CHARGES (PART TWO)

Posted on April 11, 2013
As we left off, Attorney Sam?s Take was discussing the matter of Nathan P. Williams, a 19-year-old Framingham man (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?), who is poised to have a Massachusetts Dangerousness Hearing tomorrow. He faces charges of Massachusetts rape and kidnapping of the 15-year-old girl, hereinafter, the ?Girl?...

FRAMINGHAM TEEN IS ARRESTED FOR MASSACHUSETTS AGGREVATED RAPE AND KIDNAPPING OF 15-YEAR-OLD GIRL (PART ONE)

Posted on April 11, 2013
Nathan P. Williams, a 19-year-old Framingham man (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) is in a great deal of trouble. Tomorrow, he is scheduled to return to court for a Massachusetts Dangerousness Hearing. Earlier this week, he was arraigned in district court on charges that he kidnapped and raped a 15-year-old girl at knifepoint in the woods near her home on April third...

BOSTON AREA GIRLS ARE TARGETTED AS POTENTIAL SUSPECTS IN ASSAULT CRIMES

Posted on April 09, 2013
It is a surprise to no one that Massachusetts crime can happen to anyone. Anyone can be a victim?male or female. The assumption used to be, however, that males are more likely to be perpetrators of those crime than females. There is now a movement to concentrate on the realization that plenty of Massachusetts females becomecriminal defendants, including in Massachusetts assault crimes, as well...

DORCHESTER ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO KILL COMPLAINANT DISAGREES WITH THE BOSTON POLICE

Posted on April 08, 2013
"You always hurt the one you love"is an old saying. These days, perhaps the words "or kill" should be added. Earlier last week, we were alerted to the fact that Angeleek Barros, 21, (hereinafter the "Victim") who was pushing a baby stroller down the street was repeatedly stabbed several times in Dorchester...

BOSTON?S DISTRICT ATTORNEY THROWS HIS PROSECUTORIAL HAT INTO THE POLITICAL RING

Posted on April 04, 2013
When I heard about it on WMPR earlier this week, I just knew that this was the proper story to end the three-blog-series now being completed in Attorney Sam?s Take. We have often discussed the fact that the post of district attorney, in whatever county, is a political post...

MASSACHUSETT'S HARSH MANDATORY CRIMINAL SENTENCES FOR DRUG TRAFFICKERS HARMS THE ECONOMY

Posted on April 02, 2013
When it comes to Massachusetts felonies, how serious are we, really? In my various Attorney Sam's Takes, I have told you a number of times that there is a "game" element to our criminal justice system. I have also claimed that our concerns regarding law enforcement are not quite as straightforward as our political leaders would have us believe...

FITCHBURG ARMED ROBBERY DEFENDANTS NEED EXPERIENCED DEFENSE COUNSEL

Posted on March 28, 2013
It was early morning in Fitchberg. It was a Cumberland Farms store. It was a Massachusetts armed robbery. And a state trooper was nearby. Trooper Donald Gray was in the vicinity of 367 River Street, at the intersection of River and Daniel streets when he took the gentlemen (hereinafter, the ?Defendants?) into custody...

MASSACHUSETTS LAW ENFORCEMENT GIVE UP MANHUNT FOR DRUG SELLING SUSPECT IN LEXINGTON

Posted on March 28, 2013
Sometimes, Massachusetts criminal investigations go underground or are put off for another day. Here is a case about an alleged drug trafficker and his apparent slip through law enforcement?s fingers. Maybe. Please keep in mind that we are constantly told that drug dealers are dangerous folks and a threat to our kids, communities and selves...

BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER?S AIDE IS AMOUNG DEFENDANTS FACING FEDERAL AND STATE GUN AND DRUG TRAFFICKING CHARGES

Posted on March 23, 2013
Well, you don?t expect to see a Boston Public School teacher?s aide to be amongst a bunch of criminal defendants. Particularly when the case involves allegations of drug trafficking and gun possession. But then again?you learn to expect the unexpected in the criminal justice system these days...

A BOSTON CRIMINAL DEFENSE LAWYER DISCUSSES THE TOP TEN AREAS TO QUESTION WHEN HIRING A CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY (PART TWO)

Posted on March 21, 2013
Yesterday, I began the first of this two-part Attorney Sam?s Take. Much of what is suggested has been discussed before in earlier Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog posts. However, I am hoping that the message is made even clearer when put forth in this way...

A BOSTON CRIMINAL LAWYER DISCUSSES THE TOP TEN AREAS TO QUESTION WHEN HIRING A CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY (PART ONE)

Posted on March 20, 2013
In these various Attorney Sam?s Takes, we have discussed particular stories in the news as well as the realities of today?s criminal justice system. I have maintained (perhaps ad naseum) that one of the main reasons for this blog is to communicate the realities of the system to you who are not involved in it during your daily life...

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