In the movie “West Side Story” there’s a song that the Puerto Rican girls sing whose words go: “I like to be in America, Okay by me in America, Everything free in America.” I found myself thinking a lot of criminals are humming that song after reading the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court’s (SJC)  opinion relative…

The prosecution of John O’Brien and his co-defendants Elizabeth Tavares and William H. Burke seems to have taken a new turn. The Court of Appeals is having a little trouble with it and well it should. It seems it doesn’t want O’Brien and Tavares to have to do their sentences prior to their appeal being…

“There’s too much money involved for it to be fixed,” seemed to be the mantra of the mob that follows the National Football League (NFL) but isn’t that precisely the reason why the games would be fixed. Doesn’t it make sense that the teams that draw the highest viewing audiences compete for the gold. Just…

“Joey, Joey Doyle!…Hey, I got one of your birds. I recognize him by the band. He flew into my coop. You want him?” were the opening lines shouted out by Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) in the 1954 movie On The Waterfront. After Joey is tossed to his death from the rooftop of the five-story walk-up…

Frank Salemme testified against John Connolly in his criminal trial back in 2002. In preparation for that trial the prosecution team gave him the book “Black Mass” to read. Salemme’s testimony was of vital importance to the prosecution since it allowed the prosecution to show evidence that the RICO indictment of John Connolly was brought…

We are on the cusp of the Hernandez and Tsarnaev trials; we will have to wait a bit for the trial which Dershowitz has said he will bring about. I noted earlier Dershowitz has been accused of having sex with an underage girl which he denies. He said he will sue to clear his name…