Author: mtc9393

For most of Modern History we’ve explicitly labeled our dates to the birth of Christ. We had two letters to designate years: if we talked about Homer we would say he was born around “8th – 9th century B.C.”  or about the Abyssinian Heresy we might read the date as “about A.D. 316.” B.C. stood…

Hat tip to Dave:  You think keeping Whitey Bulger as an informant was evil; how about having Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight as one. That’s what Lloyd “Ta-Ta” Lake is suggesting. Suge Knight was before a Los Angeles judge on Friday. He was held on 25 million dollars bail. He allegedly fainted after hearing that…

When times are tough people are forced to tell the truth. The little game Netanyahu has been playing over the years has come a cropper. The other day when he faced an election that seemed to destroy his Putin-like desire of leading his country for the rest of his life the true Netanyahu surfaced. It…

For the first time that I can remember I have not watched one game of the March Madness tournament. It came up upon me suddenly even though one entity that runs the bracket picks kept emailing me to remind me I had yet to join in. I have to think my loss of interest in…

Trials are conducted according to certain rules. One of the rules relates to what evidence can come before a fact finder who is either a judge or a jury. So I’ll talk about the rules as they relate to a jury. Although they are the same as the rules under which a judge operates it…

It’s reportedthat the Suffolk DA Dan Conley had a spat with the Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Court Ralph Gants over the issue of mandatory minimum sentences.  I have to side with Conley and that’s not because our names sound the same; nor, because I was an assistant DA for so many years. I…