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I have to admit that Judge Casper’s lack of experience showed slightly this afternoon. It looked like Wyshak was starting to take over the courtroom with his talking objections. The way the game is supposed to be played, at least on the state side and in Judge Joe Tauro’s courtroom, is that if counsel has…

The case is going slowly. Very little excitement today. That should come tomorrow if Martorano comes in as is rumored. It’s plodding through time where the prosecution is using two Massachusetts state police officers who achieved high rank and are experts in organized crime activities to lay a solid foundation for their case. Pretty ironic…

Too bad O’D isn’t around. Who’s O’D and what does he have to do with Bobby Long? O’D is John O’Donovan.  He’s a former colonel in the Massachusetts state police.  He headed the Bureau of Investigative Services for many years. A former Marine who joined the state police in the old days he was as…

J.W. Carney in his usual composed manner stood in front of the jury and immediately told it how much he appreciated the ”extraordinary sacrifice” they were making to serve on the case and how he would be eternally grateful for their service. He then went into a restaurant analogy that went something like when you…

You’ve heard the only way to kill a vampire is to drive a stake into his heart when he’s at rest; Brian Kelly the prosecutor must have heard this as well and decided the way to open the case was to do that to James “Whitey” Bulger who sat between his lawyers feeling the stake…

I’m listening to the lawyer for Whitey, J.W. Carney, giving his opening statement to the jury and I suddenly start wondering what’s going on in the big picture from Whitey’s point of view. Carney has just conceded that Whitey was running a big cocaine operation in Southie as well as being a bookie and involved…