Margery Eagan in the Boston Herald stepped forward to criticize what is happening in the US Attorney’s office in Boston. I was surprised at this because the two major Boston papers have been walking in lockstep over the years in protecting and praising that office despite what seemed to me to be in some instances an…
Category: Massachusetts Justice System
In examining this case it is necessary to look at different aspects of the justice system to give people a better understanding of what is going on.
Whitey Bulger’s Immunity Claim: An Analysis Of The Prosecutor’s Response To Whether He Has Immunity
As things develop in the case I have to interrupt my plans. Yesterday I said I would continue with the reevaluation today but if you’ve read the local morning papers you’ll see the government has filed it position on Whitey’s claim he has immunity. It has been filed with Judge Stearns. I assume he will…
Prosecutorial Discretion – It’s The Hard Decisions That Tell Us Whether A Prosecutor Is Made Of Sterner Stuff
I’ve written about prosecutor’s and prosecutorial discretion off an on in a general way both here and here. I’ve been more specific about it when I discussed the cases of Aaron Swartz and the Caswell Motel case. I’ve noted how I though it was used wrongly in the indictment of the probation officers and in the…
Caswell Motel Case – How Secure Are We In Our Property From The Greed Of Some Police?
The Caswell case which I wrote about yesterday points to the inability of US Attorney Carmen Ortiz to make reasonable judgments. It took about a week to try the case which had lingered in the courts for three years. Judge Judith Gail Dein took the time to visit the home of the motel owner Russ…
A Whitey-Like Taking By U.S. Attorney Ortiz Stopped Cold By Judith Gail Dein: Will She Continue Her Quixotic Fight?
Sunday is a day for a little bit of good news. This comes in the form of a decision by Judge Judith Gail Dein who slapped down the outrageous actions by our US Attorney Carmen Ortiz to all but steal a motel from its owner. This isn’t a story about the Hotel California the lovely…
Who’s Afraid of Judge Wolf? He’s Based His Findings On The Testimony Of A Liar – Why Then Believe Them?
Life sometimes gets in the way of blogging, as is the case today with me. But I want to suggest what I’ve been thinking about recently. In a nut shell it boils down to the question, “What if Judge Wolf is wrong?” The decisions of the other judges in the federal district court and in…