Author: mtc9393

Here’s my take away after from reflecting on the happenings of last Friday. The Case Is Different and Unique: Whitey Bulger is a national figure if judged by the nationwide coverage of certain of the events in his case. There have been around a dozen books written about him and countless magazine articles.  He is…

Here are my rough notes on the hearing on the 5th. Sometimes you get a better feel for what went on if you can look at them and make your own decision. The three prosecutors (Brian Kelly, Fred Wyshak and another) were at their desks by 2:20; defense counsel (J.W.Carney and Hank Brennan) arrived a…

I don’t know if you saw the Obama/Romney debate — if you did, or even if you didn’t, you know there was pretty much universal agreement the president got beaten pretty badly on style. If you went to the October 5, 2012, status hearing you’d see that J.W. Carney go pretty beaten up by the…

When I said DA Michael Morrissey did the right thing using the nolle prosequi to terminate the prosecution of Amy Bishop I got some push back from some that a DA should not have such power.  Earlier others criticized my suggestions the prosecutor is the most important part of the criminal justice system.  They suggested…

I’m leaving the Cape to head to Boston for the hearing tomorrow.  I thought I’d tell you about another trip I took many years ago. I was going through my papers and came across the name Vinny Teresa.  I decided to Google him. I learned he died on February 21, 1990. Here’s his obit in…

Patrick Nee wrote a book, A Criminal & An Irishman, released on March 27, 2007. He was born in Ireland and moved to Southie in 1952, joined the Marines in 1962, served in combat in Vietnam, came back to Southie and rejoined the Mullens gang that ended up in a gang war with the organized crime gang…