This week since I am informed the movie Black Mass will be shown in theatres across the nation I thought it appropriate to discuss some of the fictions in the book. First, keep in mind the authors were never involved in law enforcement. They spent their careers as reporters learning things second-hand. It is difficult…
Author: mtc9393
Judge Wolf is Wrong In Clinging To the Sampson Case: Time To Think of the People and Not Yourself
A few days ago I wrote of how Justice Souter sitting on the First Circuit Court of Appeals said that Judge Richard Stearns had to step down from handling the Whitey Bulger case because “a reasonable person might question the judge’s ability to preserve impartiality through the course of this prosecution and the likely rulings made…
Are We In The Early Days of A Yellow Scare?
You may not remember the Red Scare. How could you be expected to? It happened almost 100 years ago back in 1919. You want to know who was behind it. It was J. Edgar Hoover who was operating in the Bureau of Investigations’ Radical Division. (The name was changed to Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI)…
Tom Brady Given Impunity By Celebrity Hobnobbing Judge
During the Whitey Bulger case you may recall that the defense counsel moved that Judge Stearns recuse himself because during the time Whitey was committing crimes he was in the U.S. Attorney’s office. Judge Stearns refused suggesting that the allegation he would be somehow affected by that in his handling of the case was preposterous….
The Patriots First Big Game: A True Story To Think About When You Sit Watching Commercials While Waiting With Bated Breath For The Appearance of Number 12 Tom Brady
Many of you will probably be seated before your televisions at some time tonight; some will have bowls of popcorn or slabs of pizza lined up in front of them. Many will have a cold beer warming in his or her hot hands. It is the night you have been yearning for since last February….
Federal Judges Playing With Lives: Why Do They Hide From the Public?
Kim Davis the clerk of Rowan County in the Commonwealth of Kentucky is free. I wrote about this the other day and said she never should have gone to jail in the first place. It is reported that in an email from an Attorney Dan J. Canon who represented the American Civil Liberties Union, which…