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Massachusetts Bullying Indictments And Legislation Controversy Are Revisited In New Reports

By Altman & Altman

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. When 15-year-old Phoebe Prince committed suicide in January, six fellow South Hadley students were blamed for relentlessly bullying her. It was an easy fix for SuperDA Elizabeth Scheibel ? indict them all and ruin their lives. Whoops! A new report shows there may have been factors other than bullying that led to the death of the South Hadley student...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on July 22, 2010 (boomark / email).