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Here are two polls of Massachusetts voters over a similar period of time conducted by allegedly independent polling groups. So as not to identify the polls or the candidates at this time, I’ll use the Marine military phonetic alphabet such as Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot etc. that I used to know when I…

A voir dire is the questioning of a persons who may to sit as a juror to determine whether reasons exist that the juror should not sit in judgment of a defendant in a particular case. A judge oversees the selection of a jury. Counsel for the state and the defendants have before them a…

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…