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South Boston Man Faces Homicide Charges After Throwing Beer Mug; Needs Experienced Lawyer

Posted on August 18, 2010
Homicide can occur during the most unlikely of events. As a Boston criminal defense attorney, not to mention a Brooklyn prosecutor, I have seen my fill of events in which people acted in ways that they admittedly should not have and were left with totally unexpected results...

Salem MA Genius Adds Probation Violation And Fraud To Previous OUI And White Collar Criminal Woes

Posted on August 17, 2010
Leave it to the good folks of Salem, MA, to find an original, if macabre, way out of a legal problem! Unfortunately, such bright ideas , when tried in the criminal justice system in lieu of just getting a good attorney, do not tend to meet with ultimate success...

A Boston Defense Attorney Discusses MA Tales Of Murder, Robbery And Craigslist

Posted on August 16, 2010
The Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog acknowledges that this was a bad weekend for Craigslist. Of course, some others would be quick to suggest it was a bad weekend for escorts. Let?s just say it was an eerily coincidental weekend for alleged criminals who prey upon Craigslist advertisers...

Brockton Man Accused of Massachusetts Armed Robbery and Kidnapping of Escorts He Found through Craigslist

Posted on August 15, 2010
Luther M. Henderson has been arraigned on charges of Brockton, Massachusetts armed kidnapping, armed robbery, and witness intimidation. The 35-year-old man is accused of robbing a female escort that he had contacted through Craiglist at gunpoint. On July 9, Henderson allegedly offered to pay her for her sexual services...

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Attorney Sam?s Take: Excitement With Assault, Battery And Weapons On A Fine Boston Evening

Posted on August 13, 2010
Hey, the weather this weekend is supposed to be really nice. Are you looking for a fun activity for a summer?s evening here in Boston? Well, might the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog suggest an evening at the fights? No, I am not referring to wrestling or boxing or even a movie like ?The Boxer? or ?Rocky XVI?...

Acton MA Mother Charged With Homicide After Investigation Into Child?s Death

Posted on August 11, 2010
Christina H., 23, of Acton (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?), was arraigned yesterday, beside her attorney, in connection with the death of her 13-month-year-old son. She pleaded not guilty to charges that she beat him to death inside her Great Road home this past May...

Celebrity Criminal Cases: Charlie Sheen Pleads Guilty to Misdemeanor Third-Degree Assault and Lindsey Lohan Goes to Rehab After Serving Jail Time for Violating Probation for DUI

Posted on August 11, 2010
Unlike most nonfamous civilians, when a celebrity is charged with a crime, the case tends to make national headlines. In recent celebrity news, TV actor Charlie Sheen reached a plea agreement to resolve the domestic violence charges against him. The 44-year-old actor was initially charged with second-degree assault and menacing and criminal mischief last December following an altercation with wife Brooke Mueller...

Former Big Dig Bigwig Faces Allegations Of OUI, Leaving The Scene And A Default Warrant

Posted on August 10, 2010
Former Massachusetts Turnpike chairman Matthew Amorello (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) has fallen into ever-deepening holes of trouble on the criminal justice battlefield. First, he was arrested for drunk driving this past weekend. Well, not really just drunk driving...

Fall River MA City Councilor Is Arrested In Prostitution Sting ? A Boston Criminal Attorney?s Viewpoint

Posted on August 09, 2010
The Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog is so proud to announce that, thanks to local law enforcement, the good people of Fall River can sleep soundly tonight, knowing that they have once again been kept safe by intrepid police work. By this, of course, I refer to the brave and brilliant criminal investigation that has led to the arrest of 24 foul demons for the crime against nature known as prostitution...

Franklin MA Ex-Prostitute Violates Probation By Striking Police Officer With Vehicle

Posted on August 06, 2010
The Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog has discussed the seemingly newly ?in vogue? crime of striking police officers with motor vehicles. Usually, these collisions turn out to be accidental. Sometimes, under the law, they are seen as either deliberate acts or the results of drunk driving...

Quincy MA Woman Arrested For Drug Distribution...In Court!

Posted on August 05, 2010
A fine and dutiful lass from Quincy got into a bit of trouble yesterday at the local district court. Now, after trying to pass some contraband to her boyfriend, through his lawyer, she needs an attorney herself. Melissa A., 20, (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) found herself in the Commonwealth bracelets of shame after she allegedly smuggled a hypodermic needle into the courthouse in her bra as part of a scheme to pass heroin and cigarettes to her jailed boyfriend, police said...

Massachusetts Involuntary Manslaughter Trial of Lakeisha Gadson in Accidental Shooting of Her Son is Under Way

Posted on August 04, 2010
In what her Boston criminal defense lawyer is calling the ?second-most painful thing to ever happen to her,? Lakeisha Gadson is on trial for the Massachusetts involuntary manslaughter of her 8-year-old son. Liquarry Jefferson was accidentally shot by his cousin, now 10, in 2007 with a handgun owned by the victim?s half-brother, Jayquan McConnico, then 15...

Roxbury MA Homicide Of Child Re-lived In Gun Trial Against Mother.

Posted on August 04, 2010
One thing that you get enough of as a Boston criminal lawyer is human drama. An example is the 10-year-old boy who accidentally fatally shot his cousin in 2007 in Roxbury. He has now testified at the trial of the boy's mother, who is now facing an involuntary manslaughter charge for not properly storing the gun used in the shooting...

Cohasset MA Mother And Son Charged Giving Alcohol To Juveniles ? A Boston Criminal Attorney?s View

Posted on August 03, 2010
Here is another one in a series of people being prosecuted for having parties wherein juveniles are allegedly given alcohol. As mentioned last week, ?tis the season apparently. Specifically, Elizabeth M., 50, and her son Taylor, 18, of Cohasset ( hereinafter, collectively, the ?Defendants?) now face charges in Quincy District Court...

MA Bullying Victim?s Dad Suggests Leniency In Sentencing Of Students

Posted on August 02, 2010
Here is something a Boston Criminal Lawyer does not see every day. The father of a tragically deceased daughter, who?s death the Commonwealth is looking use as a tool of political expediency, is showing the compassion. You remember the word ?compassion?, don?t you? It is the word I used when discussing the tragedy and the problem of bullying in the first place...

Principal Face Massachusetts Child Pornography Charges

Posted on July 31, 2010
The principal of the Cambridge Montessori School has been charged with a Massachusetts sex crime. David B. Harris is charged with dissemination of child pornography and possession of child pornography. The Massachusetts criminal case against the private school principal comes after a two-month probe involving a number of law enforcement agencies...

MA Couple Are Charged With Giving Alcohol To Juvenile After Deadly Traffic Accident

Posted on July 28, 2010
Well, we began this week on the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog discussing crimes that occur in the summer. Yesterday, I was reminded of a companion crime to drunk driving and too much partying. Two Palmer residents now face criminal charges that they supplied alcohol to a 17-year-old boy who later died in a dirt bike accident...

Accused by His Ex- of Domestic Violence and Child Endangerment, Mel Gibson Claims He is the Victim of Extortion

Posted on July 28, 2010
It wasn't too long ago that movie star and director Mel Gibson was a box office king who was well-respected for his directing and beloved by fans. Now, however, his reputation has taken another beating following the release of several audio recordings of a man that sounds like Gibson allegedly yelling out expletives and abusive statements, making unreasonable demands, and threatening to harm his now ex-girlfriend Oksana Grigorieva, who is the mother of his youngest child...

I Am Being Investigated For A Crime In Boston ? Too Soon To Call A Defense Lawyer?

Posted on July 27, 2010
As a Boston-area criminal defense attorney, I often find myself, when meeting a prospective client, wanting to ask, ?Why in the world didn?t you contact me earlier?? I usually don?t, of course. What is done is done and there are usually enough other urgent issues on the table to discuss...

Summer crimes ? Disorderly conduct, assault and battery, drunk driving?. a criminal attorney?s view.

Posted on July 26, 2010
Crime, itsel, is not particularly seasonal. It happens all the time in the Boston area. However, through my years as a Boston criminal defense attorney, I have noted that certain crimes seem to occur more often during certain seasons. Summer is a season where there is often a spike in certain crimes, for example...

Two Worcester Men Accused of Stealing Car Charged with Massachusetts Kidnapping

Posted on July 24, 2010
Jaime Collazo and Christopher Colecchi have been arrested and arraigned in a Massachusetts criminal case involving a stolen car that had two sleeping children in it. The alleged car theft and kidnapping are said to have occurred early on the morning of July 12...

A Boston Defense Attorney Reviews A Deadly Case Of Domestic Violence

Posted on July 24, 2010
This blog has discussed many stories about family disputes which get out of hand. Some have resulted in assaults which cause great injury. Others have been known to result in death?whether intentional or accidental. This one, though, seems to have taken domestic violence to an unusual level...

Massachusetts Bullying Indictments And Legislation Controversy Are Revisited In New Reports

Posted on July 22, 2010
Gee, it seems like only yesterday that this Boston criminal defense attorney was going against the grain and calling the indictment of six kids from South Hadley a senseless exercise of political grandstanding?or words to that effect. Don?t believe that I saw what everybody else was heralding as ?heroic? as folly? Check out my postings since January as well as my comments on the equally ?heroic? legislation on both the blog and Fox25! Now, a couple of developments have some people reconsidering the events...

Another Clergy Sex Crimes Case Inspires Reflections On Years Of Boston Criminal Defense

Posted on July 21, 2010
Sex cases are a funny thing. That is, ?funny? as in ?strange?. In a country wherein we say that we prize the presumption of innocence, we really don?t act like we like said presumption very much. Currently, I am handling a high profile case about child pornography...

Supreme Judicial Court Overturns Massachusetts Murder Conviction of West Springfield Widow

Posted on July 20, 2010
The Supreme Judicial Court has overturned Joann Sliech-Brodeur?s Massachusetts first-degree murder conviction. Sliech-Brodeur was convicted of killing her husband Joseph Brodeur, who was stabbed 34 times with a kitchen knife and may have sustained blunt force head trauma from a ?pry bar? on July 28, 2004...

A Boston Criminal Lawyer Wonders How Latest Drunk Driving Accident Will Effect Law

Posted on July 20, 2010
Yesterday, as you may have read through various print and other media outlets, I had occasion to drive to North Adams, Massachusetts on a new case. As I traveled the various hours, I was reminded again and again through the radio how I was actually taking my life in my hands...

Psychiatric Patient on Trial for Boston Rape Has Diminished Mental Capacity, Says His Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer

Posted on July 14, 2010
The criminal trial of Vernon Thompson on two counts of Massachusetts rape is now under way. Thompson, 40 is accused of sexually assaulting a Newton teenager while he was a psychiatric patient at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital in Jamaica Plain in 2008. He is accused of taking the girl, then 14, to an area of the hospital where there were no security cameras and sexually assaulting her...

Wellesley Woman Pleads Not Guilty to Boston Manslaughter and Aggravated Assault and Battery Charges in Fetus Death

Posted on July 12, 2010
Ayanna Woodhouse is charged with Boston aggravated assault and battery and manslaughter in the death of a six-month-old fetus. The 25-year-old woman was indicted on Friday by a Suffolk County Grand Jury. They rendered their decision after hearing testimony from medical experts who said that under normal circumstances the baby could have lived outside the womb...

A Boston Criminal Defense Attorney Asks: Could Swapping Criminal Defendants Be The Solution?

Posted on July 11, 2010
Usually, the ?Attorney Sam?s Take? postings take place on Fridays. However, this past week, I was finishing a jury trial and so could not post in a timely manner. I did not feel I could not simply shelve this subject, though, because we may have solved a problem plaguing the criminal justice system?in Boston and beyond...

Baseball Bat Assault In Massachusetts Results In Felony Arrest

Posted on July 08, 2010
Can a baseball bat be considered a dangerous weapon in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts? As a Boston attorney for longer than I am in the mood to admit, I have seen cases where a pen, a box and even a shoe is considered a dangerous weapon by the law...

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