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I wrote yesterday how Judge Wolf was picking and choosing which of the many lies of Stevie Flemmi he believed.  One person (Neal) who has written comments to me has suggested that isn’t there some point at which it becomes prosecutorial misconduct to put a liar (and murderer) on the stand and expect people to…

Judge Mark Wolf in a hundred twenty-nine page ruling ordered the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to provide a sex change operation, now apparently called a sex-reassignment surgery, to Robert Kosilek who killed his wife in 1990 and who in 1993 changed his name to Michelle Kosilek.  Kosilek is doing a life sentence without a chance of parole.   According to…

Today I will write about police departments in general.  The FBI, the Massachusetts State Police or your local police.  They are not different when it comes to protecting their own.    There’s a good book out which tells about this.  It’s called The Fence.  It’s about the Boston Police Department.  Within any police unit there’s a…

In 1972 the year J. Edgar Hoover died a former agent published a book.  He wrote, “Before long they would be so infused with the policy, they would be afraid to go to the men’s room without advising the Bureau, except for the ones who would not be molded, but there were very few of…

I should tell how I developed an interest in this matter from a prosecution perspective.  I joined the Norfolk DA’s office in 1976.   I had worked for the prior eight years or so in a small Boston law firm.  That firm handled all types of cases but was considered a criminal law defense firm.  Some…

I’ve been running on about the case in Florida where John Connolly was convicted of murder by gun of John Callahan, but I don’t think I’ve ever given the facts about that case so you can decide for yourselves what his criminal liability is and what would be a fair punishment.   A Florida state…