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I don’t expect the justice system to be perfect — that is not a quality of mankind.  I like to think for the most part it is on the level but recognize mistakes are made.  Judges, prosecutors and investigators are subject to the slings and arrows and temptations the rest of us suffer.  I remember…

Yesterday I was reviewing the matters in Whitey’s case.  I was struck by the reporting that came out of a hearing before Judge Bowler back in June, 2011, shortly after Whitey was arrested.  We knew by that date that Whitey who grew up in St. Monica’s parish in Southie had been arrested in Santa Monica…

In my prior post I noted that over a year after the US Attorney Brian Kelly said he gave defense counsel all the documents in the case it appears a few are still outstanding and there seem to be many problems, real or imagined, with what has already been produced.  I’ve written that because of…

June 22, 2011 Whitey Bulger was arrested according to a New York Times Report.   On June 30, 2011, J.W. Carney was appointed to represent him according to a Bloomberg News Report.  That  report, and others, suggested the government opposed his request for a government appointed lawyer, A report in the Huffington Post about a…

As promised I was at the court hearing yesterday and here’s what is happening.  Judge Marianne B. Bowler came into court determined to push the case along.  Several times she told defense counsel that they wanted all the documents the government had, they got them, and they should get on with it saying “that’s what…

Over the last couple of days I see the newspapers are reporting that the prosecutors of Whitey Bulger are complaining that J. W. Carney, Whitey Bulger’s lawyer, is trying to “color the facts.”  I found that a little absurd.  Whitey’s name is so blackened that to change the public perception Carney would need the yearly…