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Attorney Sam Reviews A Recent Boston Unarmed Robbery After Arraignment

Posted on September 22, 2010
A Winchester gentleman is probably reconsidering last week's recent trip to Boston. This would be because his adventures therein have brought him not only forced monthly visits to Beantown, but also the need for a criminal defense attorney and a couple of blots on his criminal record concerning a certain robbery...

Boston?s BMC Is The Scene Of Drug Arrest By State And Federal Authorities

Posted on September 21, 2010
Some MA folks think that the authorities only conduct criminal investigations into drug operations when the drugs, themselves, are illegal, such as in the cases of heroin, cocaine and marijuana. These people should think again. Take the case of Marino S...

Boston?s SJC Rules On Probation?s Quest For GPS In Kidnapping ? Rape Case

Posted on September 20, 2010
On Friday, Boston?s Supreme Judicial Court, the highest state court in the Commonwealth, passed down a ruling that underscores the contractual aspect of being on probation, particularly in sexual assault cases. The ruling indicates that new probation restrictions cannot be imposed on sex offenders ? such as wearing a GPS device or banning them from playgrounds -- until after they violate their probation...

Ex-WinnCompanies EVP Pleads Guilty to Illegal Funneling of Campaign Contributions and Witness Tampering

Posted on September 19, 2010
Martin Raffol, who recently resigned as executive vice president of WinnCompanies?s residential arm, has pleaded guilty to witness tampering, underwriting illegal campaign contributions to local, state and federal candidates, and concealing information from the Federal Election Commission...

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Massachusetts Sex Offenders Can?t Be Subject to New Probations Restrictions Until After They Violate Rules, Says Supreme Judicial Court

Posted on September 18, 2010
In a 4-3 ruling, the Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that unless released sex offenders violate their probation, they cannot be made subject to new probation limits. The decision was issued in the case of Level 3 sex offender Ralph W. Goodwin, who in 1990 was convicted of the Massachusetts rape and kidnapping a 7-year-old boy...

Attorney Sam?s Take: ?Robbery, Assault, Armed Career Criminal?What Did I Do??

Posted on September 17, 2010
Yesterday, we discussed Darryl B., (hereinafter, again, the ?Defendant?) and his legal difficulties resulting from a confrontation with local police in Allston, MA. Said difficulties resulted in the awarding of the Commonwealth bracelets of shame, involuntary Commonwealth housing and various criminal charges including Armed Robbery, Assault with a Dangerous Weapon and the like...

Boston-Area Robbery/Assault Suspect Re-Considers Pointing A Gun At Police

Posted on September 16, 2010
28-year-old Darryl B., of Allston, hereinafter, the ?Defendant? may have severe legal problems right now, but the man is lucky to be alive. But for the restraint of Massachusetts law enforcement, he would have successfully committed what is commonly referred to as ?suicide by cop?...

MA Town Officials Seek White Collar Criminal Investigation From Prosecutor

Posted on September 15, 2010
In true ?If something is wrong, somebody must be to blame and it must be a crime? fashion, the MA town of Arlington?s selectmen have voted to notify the Middlesex District Attorney?s office of a $1.5 million deficit in the school department?s budget for fiscal year 2010...

Boston Pharmacist Pleads Guilty In Federal White Collar Fraud Case

Posted on September 14, 2010
Often, when I am telling you about a crime taking place in Boston?s Dorchester area, it is a story about assault or guns or drugs?or maybe all three. Not today. Today, it is a tale of conspiring to defraud the federal government. Amadiegwu O., 63, who lived in Randolph (hereinafter, the Defendant?) is a pharmacist who ran a drug store in the area...

A Boston Criminal Defense Attorney Reviews MA OUI/Vehicular Homicide Case

Posted on September 13, 2010
Theary C., 26, of Lowell, (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) is due to be brought in to Lowell District Court today. He is to be arraigned on a charge of MA homicide. No, not the type of killing which dominated the news, and this blog, last week. This is not a case of premeditated murder...

Recent Massachusetts Child Rape Cases Lead to Guilty Pleas and Indictment

Posted on September 11, 2010
In Salem Superior Court on Thursday, Louis Walters, a former resident of the state, pleaded guilty to Massachusetts child rape and incest charges. He has been sentenced to eight to nine years in state prison. He faces similar charges related to the same girl in New Hampshire and is expected to be sentenced to 10 to 20 years in prison...

Attorney Sam?s Take: The MA Landscape Of Bullying, Assault and Harassment For Students And Parents

Posted on September 08, 2010
?And so students and their families alike are awakening to the passing of the season. Summer is exiting Massachusetts, and school is beginning. This time, though, things are a bit more serious. First of all, as discussed yesterday, the Boston area seems to be in the middle of a dramatic increase in murder cases...

Attorney Sam Greets MA Students With News Of Murder, Robbery, Bullying And Prostitution

Posted on September 07, 2010
Welcome back everybody! I hope you had a great Labor Day Weekend. A particular welcome back to the student?s returning to schools in the Boston area. As you kids may have heard, and I will discuss in more detail tomorrow, there are new laws and procedures in place to deal with the problem of bullying...

Attorney Sam?s Take: Truth, Witnesses And The Murder Of A Boston Pizza Delivery Man

Posted on September 04, 2010
SPECIAL SATURDAY EDITION This has been a bad stretch for the Boston area in terms of homicides. Police believe they have solved the 43rd murder this year as compared to 38 killings last year at this time. The pizza delivery killing was the fifth murder in Boston in the last week...

Boston's Attorney Sam Sends His Regrets Re: Murder Investigation Into Pizza Homicide And "Truth"

Posted on September 03, 2010
This daily criminal law blog has been short-ciruited today due to internet failure. However, it will reappear tomorrow (yes, even though it is Saturday) with the planned discussion of murder investigations, witnesses and pizza delivery. Oh, yes. And do we mean by "truth" in the criminal justice system? Until then...

Attorney Sam Continues To Discuss Recent SJC Ruling In Murder Appeal And Criminal Investigations (Part Two)

Posted on September 02, 2010
Yesterday, we discussed the mechanics of this matter. Basically, we addressed the difference between a criminal appeal and a motion for a new trial as well as why it may have made sense for the defense attorney, prosecutor and SJC to take the action that they did...

A Boston Criminal Attorney Discusses SJC?s Ruling In Murder Appeal Motion (Part One)

Posted on September 01, 2010
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (?SJC?), the Commonwealth?s highest court , situated in Boston, has rejected a motion by Calvin C., convicted in the 2005 Bourneside murders,(hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) to stay his appeal so that he could seek a new trial based on evidence he said showed he was framed...

Boston-Based Attorney General Investigates Reported Political White Collar Crime

Posted on August 31, 2010
It would appear that Boston-Based Attorney General Martha Coakley?s office is on the trail of what it believes to be an upcoming white collar criminal prosecution. The target is Representative Brian P. Wallace of South Boston (hereinafter, the ?Target?)...

Seminary Student Pleads Not Guilty to Massachusetts Breaking and Entering and Unlawful Wiretap

Posted on August 31, 2010
A 24-year-old Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary has pleaded not guilty to charges of unlawful wiretap and breaking and entering in the daytime with intent to commit a felony. Daniel G. Richards was arrested on Sunday. Richards is accused of breaking into another student?s dorm room and videotaping her without her consent...

MA Convicted Car-Jacker And Murderer Fights Conviction, Blaming Lawyers In Federal Court

Posted on August 30, 2010
The Death Penalty has long been a controversial issue. Nowhere is that more true than in good ol? Massachusetts. You see, the Commonwealth, like most states, has two criminal justice systems running through it ? state and federal. The crime of murder, which often carries capital punishment sentences, is usually handled in state court...

Sentenced to Death for Massachusetts Murder and Carjacking, Gary Lee Sampson Wants a New Trial

Posted on August 29, 2010
The Massachusetts criminal defense team for Gary Lee Sampson is scheduled to appear in court on Monday to argue that their client should get a new trial. Sampson, who a federal judge sentenced to death in 2003 for the murder of three people, contends that his constitutional rights were violated because his trial lawyers at the time were ineffective...

SJC Ruling Could Overturn Christopher McCowen?s Convictions for Massachusetts Rape and Murder in Slaying of Christa Worthington

Posted on August 28, 2010
The state Supreme Judicial Court will likely issue a ruling in the next few weeks on Christopher McCowen?s appeal to have his Massachusetts murder and rape convictions in the slaying of fashion writer Christa Worthington overturned. McCowen?s criminal defense team is arguing that it was wrong to allow the a substitute pathologist to testify about findings in an autopsy that another doctor had performed and they are now citing a recent SJC ruling that overturned the murder conviction of Eric J...

Attorney Sam?s Take: The Corrupting Of MA Political, Prosecutorial And Police Investigations And Arrests

Posted on August 27, 2010
The Boston Criminal Law Blog has had a fairly police-intensive week this week. We began with A police chase in which an officer accidently struck and killed a pedestrian (which, if we had done it would probably be treated as a homicide) and then with of law enforcement investigations and actions in cases of murder, vandalism, armed robbery and, ?worst of all?, the ?scourge? of prostitution...

Recent MA Homicides, Robberies And Deadly Police Chases Make Renewed Pressure On Prostitution And Craigslist Timely

Posted on August 26, 2010
As expected, criminal justice history repeats itself in Massachusetts and its neighboring states. As discussed in earlier blogs, we have a new ?Craigslist Robber? and our original ?Craigslist Killer? has made the news again by robbing the Commonwealth of another high profile trial...

Attorney Sam Warns Students About Criminal Investigations After Lynn MA School Is Vandalized

Posted on August 25, 2010
September is a-coming. It would appear that it will soon be time, once again in Massachusetts, for those school-time hijinks like bullying, assault and vandalism. And police investigations. Well, it looks like some people just can?t wait. No, not a high school or college campus crime this time...

A Boston Defense Attorney Discusses Police SWAT Investigation Into Armed Robbery

Posted on August 24, 2010
Big happenings in the Boston area! A police investigation into a robbery with a gun! What could be more exciting than a big SWAT team operation? The Bad Guys are usually cornered and lives hang in the balance as the Good Guys take control and take whatever Bad Guys still exist after the stand-off into custody...

A Boston Criminal Attorney Wonders If A Police Cruiser Hitting And Killing In A Pedestrian With An SUV Is Vehicular Homicide

Posted on August 23, 2010
Now, given my sardonic view on things, it would not surprise you to check out this once-again daily blog one day to find me describing a scene wherein somebody was speeding down the road and, having run down an innocent pedestrian, got out of his car and started pulling on the semi-flattened gentleman, begging him to get up...

Attorney Sam?s Take: ?Mr. Investigator, The Marihuana Is Mine, But The Cocaine, Heroin and Ecstasy aren?t. Really!?

Posted on August 20, 2010
Ok, here is the scene. You are visiting your old pal Donny Dealer in Boston. You, being a good ol? ?party animal?, brought a bit of marihuana so you guys can party. Donny was only too happy to party with you. Unfortunately, unbeknownst to you, there has been an investigation going on regarding Donny and a his other friends, Mickey Mule and Greg Grower...

Boston?s Sherriff?s Department Defends Against Blame And Investigates The Death Of Alleged Murderer Markoff

Posted on August 19, 2010
The news to which we have referred a couple of times this week has remained in the news all week. Namely, Phillip Markoff, the alleged Craigslist Killer, apparently took his own life at the Nashua Street Jail in Boston. His attorney has expressed surprise and sadness and the local D...

Teenager Pleads Guilty to Boston Assault of Classmate in Hotel Room

Posted on August 19, 2010
A Canadian teenager accused of sexually assaulting a boarding room classmate during a 2007 class trip to Boston has pleaded guilty to one count of Massachusetts assault and battery. Armin Ruzbie, 19, was one of four 11th grade students accused of entering the hotel room of the male victim, then 16, at the Midtown Hotel on November 16, 2007...

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