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Detroit Mayor Pleads Not Guilty to Lying Under Oath and Other Felony Charges
Posted on April 01, 2008Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and a former aide have been charged with lying under oath about the nature of their relationship. Last week, Kilpatrick and Kristine Beatty, his former chief of staff, pled not guilty to multiple counts of perjury, conspiracy, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office during their arraignment...
Former SLA Member Sarah Jane Olson To Fight Decision Sending Her Back to Prison
Posted on March 25, 2008Five days after her release from prison, former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sarah Jane Olson was rearrested and sent back to prison on Saturday to serve one more year of her prison sentence. Prison department staff had concluded that a mistake had been made in figuring out when the ex-SLA member was eligible for parole...
'Barbie Bandits' Are Sentenced for Bank Robbery and Drug Possession
Posted on March 24, 2008Heather Lyn Johnston and Ashley Nicole Miller, the women who were arrested after robbing a Bank of America branch at a Kroger grocery store in Georgia last year, received their sentences today. Miller, 19, was ordered to serve 2 years of her 10 year prison sentence, while the remainder must be completed as probation...
Massachusetts Judge Refuses to Dismiss Hoax Device Possession Charge Against MIT Student
Posted on March 23, 2008In Massachusetts on Friday, East Boston District Court Judge Paul Mahoney refused to drop the possession of a hoax device charge against Star Simpson, the 19-year-old MIT student who wore a strapped circuit board to her chest when she walked into Logan International Airport last year...
Middleborough, Massachusetts Police File Indecent Assault, Battery, and Mayhem Charges Against Man in Child Abuse Burn Injury Case
Posted on March 20, 2008In Massachusetts, David J. Privette, the man accused of using cigarettes to burn the genitals of a 7-year-old boy, has now been charged by Middleborough police with two counts of indecent assault and battery and mayhem. The child, who is the son of Privette's girlfriend, may be permanently injured from the repeated burns...
Massachusetts Man Says He Was Duped into Pleading Guilty to Murder
Posted on March 19, 2008Charles F. Bogues, a Dorchester man, who pled guilty to the 1993 murder of a 15-year-old teenager, is asking a Massachusetts appeals court to set aside his conviction. Bogues?s father, Boston police Officer Charles T. Bogues, says his son would like another chance to go to trial...
Ex-Federal Appeals Court Employee in South Boston, Massachusetts Arrested on OxyContin Sales Charge
Posted on March 14, 2008In Massachusetts, a former US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit records clerk was arrested for allegedly selling OxyContin. Christopher Cook allegedly sold 200 OxyContin pills to someone working undercover with the FBI. Cook, 28, was to be given $7,600 for the pills...
Massachusetts Financial Advisor Arrested for Larceny and Securities Fraud
Posted on March 13, 2008A Hull, Massachusetts man was arrested on five counts of larceny and securities fraud. According to the Massachusetts Attorney General?s office, Jeffrey Gruber, 44, misrepresented himself as a stockbroker and certified financial planner from October 2005 until March 2006...
New York Governor Eliot Spitzer To Resign Over Allegations Connecting Him to International Prostitution Ring
Posted on March 12, 2008New York Governor Eliot Spitzer says he is resigning from his position following allegations that he was involved with an international prostitution ring. Spitzer had once served as a prosecutor and New York Attorney General and had built his reputation on prosecuting high profile white collar criminal cases against Wall Street securities companies...
Civil Rights Trial of Man Wrongfully Convicted of Murder Gets Under Way in Boston, Massachusetts
Posted on March 08, 2008In Boston, Massachusetts, the civil rights trial of Shawn Drumgold, the man wrongfully convicted of killing a 12-year-old girl, is under way. Drumgold, now 42, served 15 years in prison for the 1988 murder of Darlene Tiffany Moore who got caught in the middle of a gang fight in a Roxbury neighborhood...
High School Suspect in Deadly Stabbing of Massachusetts Teenager Has Autism
Posted on March 07, 2008The Boston criminal defense team of a Massachusetts high school student accused of stabbing a classmate to death in a bathroom at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High in Sudbury wants the charges against the boy dropped because he has Asperger syndrome (AS)...
Suffolk Prosecutors Drop Aggravated Rape Charge Against Woburn, Massachusetts Man
Posted on March 06, 2008Woburn, Massachusetts resident Nicholas Chiaraluce has been cleared of the aggravated rape charge in an incident involving an unconscious woman in the bathroom of the Felt nightclub. In Boston Municipal Court today, the charges against him were formally withdrawn...
Singer Bobby Brown Forgoes Jail Time for Community Service Over Alleged Cocaine Possession
Posted on February 29, 2008Singer Bobby Brown, a Boston, Massachusetts native, will serve on year?s community service for cocaine possession in exchange for not being charged with possession of the drug. Massachusetts police, responding to a call to break up a fight at a Brockton Holiday Inn last December, found Brown sitting in a car with a substance that they believe was cocaine...
Massachusetts Lawmakers Examine Bills Targeting Sex Offenders
Posted on February 26, 2008Massachusetts lawmakers are assessing a number of bills aimed to place harsher restrictions on sex offenders. Today?s Judiciary Committee meeting comes just a few weeks after Cory Saunders, a high-level sex offender. raped a 6-year-old boy at a New Bedford public library...
Boston Nightclub Shooting Suspect at ?Girls Gone Wild Party? Pleads Not Guilty
Posted on February 25, 2008In Boston, Massachusetts, Damon Jamaal-Anthony Haley (The Boston Globe is reporting that his last name is Haley. The Boston Herald says his last name is Powell) has pled not guilty to assault and battery on a police officer and other charges related to a gang fight at Aria, a local hip-hop nightclub...
Massachusetts Man is Sentenced to Federal Prison for Conspiracy to Transport Guns
Posted on February 22, 2008Nguyen Van Nguyen, a Randolph, Massachusetts man, and his brother-in law Chien Dinh Nguyen will serve time in federal prison for their conspiracy to transport guns conviction. The two men illegally bought guns from a Georgia pawn shop in Georgia and then transported them to Boston...
Man Implicated By Dead Wife?s Letter is Found Guilty of Her Murder
Posted on February 21, 2008Mark Jensen, the Wisconsin man charged with poisoning his wife in 1998 has been found guilty of first-degree murder. Sentencing will take place on Friday although his conviction comes with a mandatory life in prison sentence. The conviction by the jury came after members deliberated for over 30 hours...
Former Marshfield High School Student Will Serve Time in Massachusetts Prison For Plotting Columbine-Style Ambush
Posted on February 20, 2008In Massachusetts, Superior Court Judge Charles M. Grabau has sentenced former Marshfield High School student Joseph Nee to 2.5 years for conspiracy to commit murder. Nee, 21, is convicted of plotting a Columbine-like attack on the school. Nee had faced a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison for the crime...
International Movie Star Bai Ling Arrested on Suspicion of Shoplifting
Posted on February 15, 2008Actress Bai Ling was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly shoplifting a pack of batteries and two magazines, valued at $16, from a gift shop at the Los Angeles International Airport. She was apprehended after someone else in the store reported seeing her take the items...
Massachusetts Man Sentenced to Five Years in Jail for Involuntary Manslaughter of Friend
Posted on February 12, 2008In Suffolk Superior Court yesterday, Enrique Baez pled guilty to the shooting death of Cheyenne Baez. Judge Margaret Hinkle sentenced him to five years in Suffolk County House of Correction. 2.5 years of the sentence is for involuntary manslaughter, 6 months is for marijuana possession, and the remaining two years is for the illegal possession of two handguns...
Nationwide Manhunt for Massachusetts Man in Murder of Medfield Mother Continues
Posted on February 11, 2008Authorities throughout the United States are on the lookout for Andrew Boisvert, a 37-year-old Bridgewater, Massachusetts resident. Boisvert, a Waltham paramedic, is a suspect in the murder of his ex-wife Margaret Ninos. Ninos and Boisvert have a 7-year-old daughter named Maggie...
Massachusetts Officials Want to Give Jury a Bigger Role in Dangerous Sex Offender Trials
Posted on February 08, 2008In Massachusetts, state officials filed legislation that would allow prosecutors to demand that a jury rule on whether a sex offender is considered dangerous. Massachusetts law currently mandates that a sexually dangerous individual be civilly committed anywhere from 1 day up to the rest of his or her life at the Massachusetts Treatment Center in Bridgewater...
Massachusetts Governor?s Aide Charged with Sexual Assault
Posted on February 07, 2008Carl Stanley McGee, the assistant secretary for policy and planning for Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick?s administration has been charged with the sexual assault of a male teenager in Florida. McGee, 38, was arrested last December in Boca Grande at the Gasparilla Inn & Club resort...
Patriots Football Player Pleads Not Guilty to Marijuana Possession Charges in Massachusetts
Posted on February 05, 2008New England Patriots defensive back Willie Andrews says he is not guilty of possession of marjjuana with intent to distribute. The 24-year-old football player responded to the charges during his arraignment today in Lowell District Court in Massachusetts...
Man Who Kidnapped Two Boys to Serve 74 Life Sentences in Solitary Confinement
Posted on January 31, 2008Michael Devlin, a 42-year-old former pizza shop manager who kidnapped two boys and keeping one of them with him for more than four years, has started serving his 74 life terms in solitary confinement. He has also been sentenced to 170 years in Federal prison...
Massachusetts Judge Rejects Doctor?s Guilty Plea to Involuntary Manslaughter in Liposuction Fatality
Posted on January 30, 2008Middlesex Superior Court Judge Wendie Gershengorn rejected the guilty plea to involuntary manslaughter charges made by Luiz Carlos Ribeiro in the 2006 death of a female patient. Ribeiro, who was a licensed doctor in Brazil but does not have a license to practice in the United States, performed liposuction on Fabiola DePaula, a 24-year-old Brazilian immigrant, in his basement in Framingham, Massachusetts...
Massachusetts Teacher Pleads Not Guilty to Cybersex Charges
Posted on January 29, 2008A West Boylston Middle-High School teacher says he is not guilty of committing cybersex-related crimes. In Leominster District Court in Massachusetts last week, Scott A. Simoncini, 35, pled not guilty to two counts of attempting to commit a crime and five counts of disseminating obscene material to a minor...
Woburn, Massachusetts Man Pleads Not Guilty to Raping Unconscious Woman in Boston Nightclub's Bathroom
Posted on January 25, 2008Nicholas Chiaraluce, a 21-year-old Woburn college student, was released on $30,000 cash bail yesterday after he was charged with one count of aggravated rape. The woman he allegedly raped was unconscious in a men?s bathroom at the Felt nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts...
Tim Masters is Set Free After 1999 Murder Conviction is Thrown Out
Posted on January 22, 2008Tim Masters, who was convicted in the 1999 of murdering Peggy Hettrick, was set free today. Masters had been serving a lifelong prison term for her in 1987 that happened when he was just 15-years-old. Her mutilated body was found in a field near Fort Collins, Colorado close to Masters?s trailer...
New England Patriots Wide Receive Randy Moss Says He Did Not Commit Battery or Domestic Violence
Posted on January 17, 2008New England Patriots Football Player Randy Moss says he did not commit battery against the 35-year-old woman who has filed a temporary restraining order against him. Rachelle Washington is accusing Moss, who she says she had an intimate relationship with, of battery, causing her serious injury, and denying her medical attention during a domestic violence incident that allegedly took place at her Florida home on January 6...
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