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The move was as smooth as an old fashion Smoothie.  It glided past the victim’s families as easily as the Old Smoothies of Ice Capades times twirled past the crowd gathered in Boston Garden. It was the ultimate bait and switch; a perfect execution of the Three Cup Monte; legerdemain that rivaled that of the great Houdini. Rarely…

I write mostly about things involving our criminal justice system but do venture into other areas. Doing this gives me a larger canvas from which to paint my opinions. Sometimes what  is happening elsewhere brings things happening in the criminal justice system into a better light. It must be apparent to anyone who has followed…

A real good guy died the other day. I was on vacation and received a call from a neighbor back home. Nowadays when the phone rings we know who is calling before we pick it up so when I saw this neighbor was calling even before he said he had some “bad news” I had…

Writing about the Boston Public Schools (BPS) and the situation at Boston Latin School (BLS) involving the black students I could not but notice the plight of the Hispanic students. Like the blacks they are direly unrepresented at BLS having about one-quarter of the students there when compared to their number in the BPS. Perhaps…

April is here and it begins with April Fools Day. Thinking of that I suggest the month of April is an appropriate time for the Catherine Greig case to be brought back into court so that she can have additional years imposed upon her by vindictive Boston federal prosecutors and a federal court system composed…

Mayor Martin Walsh perhaps blind to the destruction wrought upon the Boston Public Schools (BPS) the last time it was investigated by the federal government, or through reasons of fear, welcomed an investigation of the BPS school system by the Boston’s United States Attorney Carmen Ortiz. He was joined by the BPS superintendent a 40-year-old…