Author: mtc9393

Attorney Harvey Silverglate who represented Bernard Baran wrote that he was convicted during the “national panic over supposed sexual abuse of preschool children. Baran fell victim to homophobia, hysteria, and arguably prosecutorial misconduct.”  The Boston Globe wrote: “In an atmosphere of homophobia and hysteria, the defendant, an openly gay teenager . . .  didn’t stand…

Yesterday, I showed how the op-ed by Harvey Silverglate had to ignore the conclusive evidence that the defense counsel had the opportunity to review video tapes so that he could allege that issue remained open. Silverglate had in his hand a lawyer’s letter stating a transcript shows the unedited video tapes had been made available…

I’m going back again at the Globe editorial demanding “prosecutors must answer for actions.”  Yesterday I mentioned it seemed to be an ill-timed intrusion into the governor’s race since nothing it called for needed immediate attention; also, that it twisted the event into one of prosecutorial misconduct when the real problem involved ineffective assistance of…

Incredibly strange, I thought reading an editorial in the Boston Globe. It would become even more so as I did a little research into it. Bringing the matter up during waning days of a close race for the governorship seemed out-of-place. Nothing was or is urgent. It could have waited. Whether the editorial was published last…

Perhaps because I’ve listened to so many intercepted conversations that I like to imagine dialogue between people. I’ve written how all the authors who have discussed these matters have trouble figuring out how Whitey Bulger and Stevie Flemmi both became informants for FBI Agent John Connolly. The authors of Black Mass suggest Whitey became one…

Salemme, a known murderer and former head of the New England Mafia, admitted perjury at the trial of FBI Agent John Connolly coupled with what is called his recantation where he admitted to a fellow inmate that he testified to things that were false at that trial. His perjury and recantation is treated by Judge…