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A week that few could predict, least of all me. It really shows how little we know about juries. Sometime Tuesday morning the judge gave them the case to decide and on Friday afternoon they were sent home still trying to — well to be truthful, we don’t know what they are doing. I’m the…

Mark Rossetti is back in the news. I’m not a twitter fan but it’s the best way to get news from the courtroom about Bulger. If you’re a twitterite, then put in #Bulger and you can follow it. Some of it is good, some pretty bad. A lot of self-promotion. I had to laugh at…

I thought it was straightforward: gangsters, guns, graves and gruesome garrottings. The jury would sit down after an hour or so take a test vote see that it was 12 to 0 for conviction and decide to come back the next day with their verdict. The next day came and all we got was questions,…

I’ve been practicing law for a long time on both sides of the criminal bar. It’s rather late in my career to start wondering about a practice that is accepted as the norm but I never really thought about it until yesterday. It’s like you go along with something because that’s how it has always…

I’m sure you were all impressed with me when I told you the verdict would come in yesterday. I wasn’t alone in my prediction, almost all the grand pooh-bars held the same opinion. One was on television last night and when confronted with his error said “well, then, I guess it will be Thursday, or…

Not that anyone can guess what a jury will do, I’d expect the jury to come back today with its verdict. There is very little to discuss outside of the government approach to the case since the facts have already been conceded except to one or two of the particulars of the racketeering counts, the…