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Felony Drug Charges May Be Dropped Against Mom Who Grew Marijuana For Son?s Use- Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on January 19, 2011
We haven?t talked about drug cases for awhile. As you know, possession of a small amount of marijuana has been decriminalized. However, that does not mean that having it is now problem free. Confused? Well, it depends on the circumstances in which you possessed it...

Mattapan Man Seeks Driving License After Six OUI and One Vehicular Homicide Convictions- Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on January 18, 2011
We take today?s blog from the ?You?ve Gotta Be Kidding Me? section of the news. It involves a man who clearly picked the wrong time to attempt to get back his Massachusetts driver?s license. One would imagine that even without the pending Parole debacle claiming the front page every day , that Algary Horton, 53, of Mattapan (hereinafter, the ?Nondriver?) would still be refused...

Former Massachusetts Police Chief Not Guilty in Gun Homicide Of Child-Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on January 17, 2011
Today is the first holiday in quite a while that former Pelham Police Chief Edward Fleury (hereinafter, the ?Ex-Defendant?) can breathe freely. The cloud of criminal allegations which has surroundied him since 2008 has finally lifted. He was finally acquitted of homicide charges in the tragic death of the late young Christopher Bizilj...

A Boston Criminal Defense Lawyer Discuses Changes In MA Parole System Due To Homicide Of Woburn Police Officer- Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on January 14, 2011
If you heard a cacophony of crashing noises yesterday from the direction of Boston?s Beacon Hill, it was the sound of Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick , along with a certain Parole Board, caving in to public ridicule and political pressure. As you have heard time and time again, the now-infamous Massachusetts Parole Board released a repeat violent offender in 2008...

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Massachusetts Drunk Driver Admits Guilt But Is Not Responsible For Vehicular Accident- Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on January 13, 2011
It would appear that this Massachusetts driver thought ahead. Realizing that the coming storm would make it difficult to go out and drink, Ms. Tara Tobin (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) got in one last trip just before the snow. The result was not too pretty...

Boston?s Appeals Court Overturns Sex Crime Conviction In Prostitution Case Involving A Juvenile- Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on January 12, 2011
Here?s one for the sex trade! In the past, we have discussed many times the various, and in my opinion, faulty rationales for keeping prostitution illegal. One of those rationales has been that prostitutes are, per se, victims. They are exploited and forced to perform sex acts for money...

Medford Man Is Sentenced In Federal Court For, Among Other Things, Lying To Police-Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on January 11, 2011
Gerard Sasso, 52, of Medford, (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) has made Massachusetts history. In fact, he is not only a ?first? in the Commonwealth, but is a ?second? in the country! Unfortunately, he will be ?celebrating? in a federal prison. Yesterday, the Defendant became the first person in the state -- and the second in the nation -- to be convicted for lasering an aircraft...

Boston Watches As Shootings In Arizona Leave Six Dead, Representative Gabrielle Giffords clinging to life And Questions About Violent Speech-Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on January 10, 2011
Just last week, we discussed the case of kids threatening to commit mass murder online. I mentioned that this was not the climate for it. This was illustrated horribly this past weekend in Tucson, Arizona. The end result of the event is that Federal prosecutors have brought charges against the alleged gunman accused of attempting to assassinate Representative...

Brookline High School Students Are Accused Of Threatening To Commit Mass Murder-Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on January 07, 2011
While Massachusetts schools have been struggling with ways in which to comply with the over-arching and extremely broad anti-bullying law, a couple of students at Brookline High School have apparently been doing their own planning. According to officials, that planning would include a mass homicide...

Framingham Police Execute Search Warrant In Drug Case And Shoot 68-Year-Old Resident- Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on January 06, 2011
Yesterday, we discussed that tragedies sometimes result from mistakes made by human beings. Yesterday, it was the Parole Board. Today, authorities are investigating a police-involved shooting in Framingham yesterday morning that has left a 68-year-old man dead, the Middlesex District Attorney?s office has announced...

Ex-Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson Sentenced to 3 1/2 Years in Prison For Accepting Bribes

Posted on January 06, 2011
Former Massachusetts State Senator Dianne Wilkerson has been sentenced to serve 3 � years in state prison for accepting $23,500 in bribes. Wilkerson had pleaded guilty to criminal charges of eight counts of attempted extortion last year. In 2008, she was caught inserting $100 bills in her bra as part of a kickback scam...

Massachusetts Murder Of Police Officer Continues To Provoke Attacks On Parole System- Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on January 05, 2011
We live in a ?when the going gets tough, the tough get blaming? society today. We continue to fall into the same behavior in the face of tragedy. Then we wonder why we have the same problems. A police officer has been murdered during a robbery t. The shooter, Dominic Cinelli, who was freed on parole in 2009 and who killed Officer John B...

Massachusetts Armed Assaults With Guns And Knives Leave One Dead And Others Wounded In Lynn And Lowell- Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on January 04, 2011
Well, if this past New Years Eve in Lowell and Lynn are any indication, we are in for another angry and violent year. Both Massachusetts towns were scenes of armed assaults, one of them fatal. Yesterday, Jameson Phoun, 20 , and Sothy Voeun, 19, both of Lowell, (hereinafter, the "Defendants?) were arraigned n Lowell District Court on charges of, among other things, first-degree murder...

Prosecutor Of Michael Jackson Homicide Case Tries To Predict The Likely Defense - Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on January 03, 2011
The more serious the crime, the more desperate the prosecution becomes to predict the defense?s strategy. It is the one area in which the defense has a bit of an advantage. In a very public homicide case, outside of Massachusetts, case, prosecutors seem to be floating ?trial balloons? to force the defense to reveal its thoughts...

Prosecutor Of Michael Jackson Homicide Case Tries To Get Experienced Criminal Defense Counsel To Reveal Strategy - Attorney Sam?s Take

A Woburn Police Officer Is Gunned Down At Robbery. Is Massachusetts Parole Board To Blame?- Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on December 31, 2010
2010 is ending with a tragedy which many people believe could have, and should have, been averted. I am talking about the recent homicide of Woburn police officer John Maguire as he tried to apprehend robbery suspects during Sunday?s blizzard. The accused killer, Dominic Dinelli , 57, (hereinafter, the ?Parolee?), is also dead, by the way...

Brockton Man Charged with 2008 Massachusetts Murder of Teenager at Baby Shower

Posted on December 31, 2010
20-year-old Darryene Ware, a Brockton resident, was arraigned on Thursday for Massachusetts murder. He is accused of fatally shooting 16-year-old Chantel Matiyosus as she was leaving a baby shower in 2008. According to police. Ware and a number of other people who call themselves ?D Block? started shooting at the partygoers...

Natalee Holloway?s Mother Visits Her Daughter's Alleged Murderer In Prison, Seeking A Confession - Attorney Sam?s Take

Posted on December 29, 2010
This is one of those stories from this year which would probably never happen in Boston. First of all, in Massachusetts, Murder in the First Degree carries a mandatory life sentence without parole. It leaves very little to work with when one is trying to make promises to suspects to ?just tell the truth? and ?I can get you out of here?...

Massachusetts Drug Convictions Against Two Somerville Brothers Overturned

Posted on December 28, 2010
Saying that the constitutional rights of Raymond and Ronald Mendes were violated during trial, Massachusetts?s Appeals Court has overturned their drug convictions: possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, and drug violation in a school or park zone...

Attorney Sam?s Take: Massachusetts Criminal Court Is The Scene Of Unusual Sexual Assault For Which Clerk is Sentenced (Pt 2)

Posted on December 27, 2010
Today, as we ?hunker down? and ?enjoy? the last blizzard of the year, we continue the discussion about recent Massachusetts sentences that were recently handed down to fairly unusual criminal defendants during this holiday season. Today?s matter involves a meeting of sexual assault and prostitution...

Attorney Sam?s Take: Massachusetts Criminal Sentences For 2010 Crimes Of Fraud, Bribery, Sexual Assault And Beyond Are Discussed And Compared (Pt 1)

Posted on December 24, 2010
I am often asked whether Massachusetts prosecutors and judges are more lenient during the holiday season. The answer is like most answers in human events...it depends. As we end the year in which various unlikely Massachusetts criminal defendants have faced ?Justice? at the bar, it is worth seeing what sentences have been coming down in cases ranging from fraud, to bribery, to sexual assault...

Two Massachusetts Men Plead Guilty to 2009 Brookline Rape and Kidnapping

Posted on December 23, 2010
The Norfolk district attorney?s office says that Brighton resident Joseph Arita and Waltham local Ismael Martinez are serving 20 ? 25 years in prison for the 2009 Brookline rape and kidnapping of a 30-year-old woman. Arita, 26, and Martinez, 27, each pleaded guilty earlier this month to one count of Massachusetts kidnapping involving a sexual assault, two counts of aggravated rape, and other assault and battery charges...

Attorney Sam?s Take: Boston?s Highest Court Rules On Sex Offender?s Probation Violation

Posted on December 22, 2010
Sometimes it seems that the criminal justice system uses the intellectual equivalent of a bazooka to tackle an issue as logically mind-bending as kindergarten mathematics. Boston?s Supreme Judicial Court, normally needed to referee issues surrounding Massachusetts Murder, Robbery or search and seizure issues has now been called upon in one of these instances...

Somerville Man Accused of Massachusetts Hate Crime Ordered to Stay Away from MBTA Employee

Posted on December 21, 2010
Attorney General Martha Coakley?s Office has ordered John Twohig to stay away from a female MBTA bus operator that he allegedly assaulted last July during what has been described as a ?racially motivated verbal assault.? The action was brought against the Somerville man under the Massachusetts Civil Rights Act (MCRA), which is also known as the ?hate crimes? statute...

Donated Toys Stolen from Burlington Warehouse

Posted on December 20, 2010
Toys collected for Toys for Tots, a program that provides gifts for children in need, were stolen from a Burlington warehouse facility between 2a.m. and 6:30 a.m. on Saturday. The 1,500 stolen toys were valued at $15,000. According to police, the thief or thieves took only toys that were appropriate for children 8 ?years-old or older and worth between $15 and $30...

Attorney Sam?s Take: Massachusetts Joins Federal Agents Investigate Suspects? Immigrant Status

Posted on December 19, 2010
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has now changed its mind regarding the role of state authorities in the criminal investigation of illegal aliens. For the past few years, various states have used various tactics in the tracing of illegal aliens. They claim that the discovery of said aliens helps stem the tide of various crimes, including robbery, murder and drug trafficking...

Former Teacher Pleads Guilty to Massachusetts Statutory Rape of 15-Year-Old

Posted on December 18, 2010
Lisa Lavoie, an ex-Holyoke elementary school teacher, has pleaded guilty to Massachusetts statutory rape and enticing a child. The 25-year-old woman is accused of running off with a 15-year-old eighth grader. Lavoie, who has been released until her sentencing next month, is not allowed to contact the teenager...

Armed Bank Robbery in Malden

Posted on December 17, 2010
A Citizen?s Bank on Main Street in Malden was robbed Thursday afternoon, and police are looking for the suspect. At around 1 p.m., a man entered the bank with a note demanding money and warning that he had a weapon. As he was leaving, he ran into problems with the bank?s door locking mechanism and fired 5 shots into the door...

Wareham Dentist Accused of Prescribing Drugs For Sexual Favors

Posted on December 16, 2010
Authorities in Massachusetts have arrested Dr. Steven S. Miller, a 68-year-old Wareham dentist for allegedly exchanging drugs for sexual favors with female patients. He was arrested and arraigned in federal court and charged with distributing and dispensing controlled substances without a valid medical purpose...

Attorney Sam?s Take: Would A Naked Postal Employee Have To Register As A Sex Offender In Massachusetts?

Posted on December 15, 2010
Last Friday, I told you that I was originally going to blog about a Massachusetts sex offender who had gotten arrested for urinating at an MBTA stop. If you are unaware of the gentleman?s story, you can read about it here as reported by our news-blogger...

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