The more I see it the more probable it seems is that the 2000 book Black Mass manufactured a scenario based on made up and confused ideas of the authors as to what happened and laid the base for all that followed. After it came Ralph Ranalli’s 2001 book Deadly Alliance which loosely followed Black Mass but included in…
The Bells Are Tolling For Whitey Bulger
Yesterday I said Judge Stearns got a little ahead of himself in declaring Whitey’s claim of immunity for murders to be committed in futuro will not be considered. I suggested he should not have done that without figuring out what it was that Whitey is claiming. I should have mentioned he has left the door…
Judge Stearns Too Fast On The Trigger
Even a person who is unfamiliar with the court system can pretty much get this. Lawyers do their best to advocate a client’s position by setting forth the facts and law as they see it in a memorandum to a judge. When you pick up the judge’s decision and read this language on page 3…
O’Sullivan’s Reason For Giving Whitey Immunity – III
(This was written as part of the series to show that Whitey could have immunity despite being an informant. Judge Stearns as we know has ruled out much of his defense which Stearns notes is really not a “defense” but a bar to prosecution. Stearns wrote: “an immunity agreement cannot as a matter of public…
Judge Stearns Sinks Whitey Bulger’s Ship
To say Judge Richard Stearns had made up his mind on the issues of immunity before he received the memoranda of counsel would be an understatement. The parties submitted their memoranda on Friday and on Monday the decision was issued. That has to be some record for the federal court. The strange thing about all…
O’Sullivan’s Reason For Giving Whitey Immunity – II
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…