Author: mtc9393

When Mary took her little lamb to school and the children saw it, from what I remember as a kid, it made the children laugh and play, laugh and play, and laugh and play. Few things we read about make us laugh and play in the sense they are so outrageously funny that not only…

“Oh what has become of our good old country?” that’s what the stranger asked of me.  “Once it seemed we thought alike, now it seems all we do is fight.” “Oh, ho, ho, why you asking me? I’d think the answer is clear to see.” The stranger then continued, “The nuttiness of Trump is very…

In the case of Commonwealth v. Aaron J. Hernandez the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in an opinion written by Judge Elspeth B. Cypher wrote that the : “doctrine of abatement ab initio is outdated and no longer consonant with the circumstances of contemporary life, if, in fact, it ever was.” That doctrine is that if…

One aspect of the matters involving Retired FBI Agent John Connolly who has been incarcerated in Florida where he is expected to come before the parole board when he is 99-year-old, in effect, he has been sentenced to die in prison for doing his job as an FBI agent, is whether he was authorized to…

Yesterday I pointed out the Agent John Connolly came to Boston in 1972, was put in the organized crime squad, and was made responsible for handling Top Echelon Criminal Informant (TECI) Steve Flemmi who had been informing since 1965 which was before Connolly joined the FBI. In 1975 he would list James “Whitey” Bulger as…

As I mentioned, I’m reading Judge Gertner’s findings on the Teddy Deegan case. The last thing on my mind was John Connolly. He wasn’t even in the FBI at the time Deegan was murdered. He joined it in 1968  and came to Boston in 1972. He was put into the organized crime unit. Shortly after…