In Part I yesterday I suggested that the information in the FBI files may support Whitey Bulger’s claim that he was not an informant. Even though that is the case, we still have to decide upon a definition of informant. Whitey Bulger would consider one to be an informant in the sense the word is used…
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Whitey’s Lawyers Tell Judge Stearns He Must Let The Jury Decide Immunity
J.W. Carney, Jr. and Henry B. Brennan have filed on behalf of Whitey answers to the questions Judge Stearns posed at the last hearing. The prosecutors, Zachary R. Hafer, Brian T. Kelly and Fred M. Wyshak, Jr. have also filed their submission. Carney and Brennan cut to the chase and deal strictly with the legal…
The Guesswork Involved In Deciding On The Truth – I
One thing we know about our system of justice is that wrong decisions are made every day. This is because it is a human system which does not provide for certitude. We have people who don’t really know other people making judgments about them based on a minimal encounter. Even though my career was as…
Having The Judges Do Their Jobs
I mentioned how David Boeri and David Frank’s article Ortiz Under Fire got me thinking about other happenings in the justice system. I’ve told how I believe the cops are running the show in the Boston U.S. Attorney’s office. But there is another aspect to that story I’d like to speak about. I’ve pointed out in…
Carmen Ortiz Gets One Right
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…
Billy Bulger – II
Billy Bulger was elected out of his senate district in South Boston to the Massachusetts Senate in 1970, ten years after he had been elected to the House of Representatives. In 1978 he became president of the Massachusetts Senate in which capacity he served until 1999, a total of over 17 years. Governor Michael Dukakis…