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A Boston Criminal Defense Lawyer's take on Vehicular Homicide And Very Bad Moments

Posted on March 26, 2010
One moment. One very bad moment following a very bad decision. Boston criminal defense attorneys see it every day. That's all it takes to ruin, or even end, innocent lives....as well as guilty ones. It is a lesson that we witness played out on the Commonwealth streets this past Monday...

Kitty Killer Is Arrested On Drug Felonies

Posted on March 25, 2010
Some people just can?t keep out of trouble. Allegedly. There are studies, performed both in and out of Massachusetts, that say that there are indicators of some people?s future behavior. For example, some studies indicate that someone who starts out in life torturing and killing animals end up killing people...

Attorney Is Sickened As Former Government Official Is Indicted And Convicted At Boston Federal Court

Posted on March 24, 2010
I thought this was an ironic follow-up to Monday?s blog. It involves a former official for the US Department of Homeland Security. She was just convicted in Boston of encouraging her illegal immigrant housekeeper to remain in the country. She is Lorraine H...

Boston?s Logan Airport Is Scene Of Mystery Passenger And Pending Warrant

Posted on March 22, 2010
Has anyone else noticed that air travel has become a bit more tense in recent years? Gee, you go to Boston's Logan International Airport and you would think it had been involved in a terrorist act sometime over the past ten years or something! In fact, sometimes you feel you should bring a lawyer along just in case...

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Registered Sex Offender Arrested for Alleged Massachusetts Rape of Mentally Challenged Person

Posted on March 20, 2010
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...

Attorney Sam's Take: Three Deaths On Massachusetts Streets In 48 Hours

Posted on March 19, 2010
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...

Massachusetts Dentist Indicted After 8 Year Investigation For Assualt And Fraud

Posted on March 17, 2010
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?)...

Scooby Doo Named In Ongoing Boston-Area Drug Investigation - Experienced Defense Attorney Needed

Posted on March 16, 2010
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...

Boston Baby?s Death Brings Murder Charges And Jail To Senior MIT Staffer

Posted on March 15, 2010
?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?...

Middle School Teacher Turns Herself In after Sexual Relationship with Male Student

Posted on March 12, 2010
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...

Boston Attorney General Indicts RMV Clerk For White Collar Crimes

Posted on March 09, 2010
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...

Grand Jury Investigation Into Past Boston Sexual Assault Underscores Need For Experienced Criminal Defense Attorney?Quick!

Posted on March 08, 2010
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...

NFL Football Player Ben Roethlisberger Accused of Sexual Assault

Posted on March 06, 2010
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...

Attorney Sam?s Take: Boston Federal Prosecution For Embezzlement Exemplifies Need For Experienced Criminal Defense Attorneys

Posted on March 05, 2010
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...

Boston-Area Parking Violation Results In Felony Assault With Weapon Charge

Posted on March 04, 2010
Did you know that the Boston Criminal Law Blog is the number one read criminal law blog in Massachusetts? Thanks for that, by the way. Well, it looks like we need to tell our neighbors in Rhode Island about it too. After all, I began this week warning you about keeping your cool during?heated?situations...

Massachusetts Strip Club Said To Be Scene Of Disorderly Conduct And Assault & Battery On Police Officers

Posted on March 01, 2010
Well, the Boston Criminal Law Blog is likely to a be a bit shorter this week as we prepare for major battle in the criminal justice trenches later this week. There is always time, though, to remind you that, even in the times of hottest temper, it pays to keep your cool...

Amy Bishop?s Parents Maintain that Fatal 1986 Massachusetts Shooting of Her Brother was an Accident

Posted on February 28, 2010
Amy Bishop?s parents say that they will cooperate in the judicial inquest into the 1986 Braintree, Massachusetts fatal shooting of their son. However, they are adamant that Bishop shot him accidentally. Bishop, a 45-year-old University of Alabama Biology professor, is now charged with the fatal shooting deaths of three university staff members on February 12...

Attorney Sam?s Take: Massachusetts Campus Crime Report Seems To Contend That Sexual Assault Is Now ?Acceptable? In College

Posted on February 26, 2010
Here is another arena in the Boston area where the hysterical cry of the Lawenorder Bird calls, ?Softoncrime! Softoncrime!? The bird, considered a symbol of justice to some is seen as a predatory bird by others. Criminal defense attorneys for example...

Assault, License Loss And OUI Charges Apparently Not Enough For Alleged Armed Carjacker

Posted on February 25, 2010
Today, the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog points out that there really can be ?heroes? as well as ?villains? in today?s modern, if not skeptical, age. It seems to also be a story of a suspect's alleged consistency. It was this past Monday. It began when a 34-year-old woman parked her Acura SUV at the Dock Square garage in the North End...

Massachusetts Kidnapper Faces Charges In Federal And Two State Courts

Posted on February 24, 2010
Message from a Boston criminal defense attorney to Ms. Kimberly J., 38 (hereinafter, the :Defendant?) ? it is not as bad as you think. It is actually worse. The Defendant had been wanted by Massachusetts law enforcement in the alleged kidnapping Thursday of her half-sister?s one-year-old daughter...

Former NBA Player Jayson Williams Sentenced to Five Years in Prison for Limo Driver?s Shooting Death

Posted on February 24, 2010
Jayson Williams, the former New Jersey Nets player, has been sentenced to a five-year prison term for charges related to his covering up of the fatal shooting of Costas ?Gus? Christofi, a limo driver that he had hired. Williams accidentally shot the 55-year-old driver on February 14, 2002...

Massachusetts Vehicular Crimes Increase Penalties During Police Car Chases ? Take It From A Boston Defense Attorney

Posted on February 23, 2010
Well, it has been awhile since the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog covered one of these. It just goes to show that with all the mkhigh profile cases like those of a certain never-to-be-tenured professor's alleged homicides, the Kerrigan family woes and assorted homicides we have been discussing lately, poor judgment is also demonstrated in the actual streets of the Commonwealth ...

Teen Charged in Hyannis Double Shooting Wasn?t Convincingly Identified, Says Massachusetts Criminal Defense Lawyer

Posted on February 20, 2010
19-year-old Browning Mejia?s Massachusetts criminal defense lawyer is arguing that his client should never have been indicted over a January 15, 2009 shooting in Hyannis. The attorney claims that witnesses did not convincingly identify the teen. Mejia is accused of being one of two masked persons to shoot a parked car whose occupants were allegedly there to purchase drugs from him...

Boston Ghosts Of Criminal Past Continue To Haunt Prof. Amy Bishop, Now Accused Of Murders By Firearm

Posted on February 18, 2010
It would appear that the people of the Boston area dodged the proverbial bullet when Professor Amy Bishop (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) moved out of state. According to Alabama law enforcement, co-faculty members were not so lucky. The Defendant stands accused at the moment of gunning down said members at a faculty meeting whereat it was revealed that she was not going to get tenure...

Former Boston Professor, Now Multiple Homicide Suspect, Is Linked To Previous Shooting And Bombing

Posted on February 16, 2010
Have you heard the one about the professor who is accused of killing three colleagues at the University of Alabama on Friday? They say that Amy B., 44, (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) had been a professor there since 2003. But did you know that she had come from Boston where she had other...

Biology Professor Charged in Fatal Shootings of University of Alabama Professors

Posted on February 14, 2010
Amy Bishop Anderson, a University of Alabama biology professor, is charged with one count of capital murder in the deaths of two other professors and one professor?s assistant. Three other people, a staff member and two faculty members, were injured. The shooting happened on campus on Friday at around 4pm during a biology department meeting...

Attorney Sam?s Take: The Kerrigan Case ? Boston?s Latest Confrontation Between Homicide Prosecution And Human Emotion

Posted on February 12, 2010
The Kerrigan family may have you alittle confused. The Boston Medical Examiner?s office says that the father (hereinafter, the ?Deceased?) died because of an assault by the brother (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?). The rest of the family is praising what a fantastic role model the Deceased was, but are standing by the Defendant...

Larceny Suspect From Boston Municipal Court Is Indicted On Fraud Charges

Posted on February 11, 2010
George P., a 48-year-old man from Medford, (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?), has been indicted by a Suffolk County Grand Jury in Boston. This means that if he has a court-appointed lawyer, he or she had best be ?superior court certified?. Somehow, though, given the charges...

Kerrigan Massachusetts Assault Ruled A Homicide

Posted on February 10, 2010
Was it a surprise to you? The Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog anticipated it just after the event and explained that it was likely to happen. The news is that,the cause of death of the 70-year-old father of Olympic figure skater Nancy Kerrigan (hereinafter, the ?Deceased?) is being ruled a homicide...

Massachusetts Student Needs Experienced Lawyer In Assault Of Wall Case

Posted on February 08, 2010
Last week, the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog discussed cases involving assaults of various natures. Some involved drugs. Some involved the ultimate assault... homicide. This week, we begin with assault of a different kind. Here, no person was assaulted...

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