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Sex For Money For Drugs Drama Has Its Final Act This Friday In Springfield, Massachusetts

By Altman & Altman

Last Wednesday, a Hampden Superior Court jury returned with a verdict in a case of alleged unarmed robbery of a person 60 years old or older. The cast of this particular drama included two defendants. They were Aretha Hallums, 40, and Donald Alford, 55. Cast in the role of victim was the elder Edward Foster, formerly of Springfield. The scene of the facts at issue was outside the Bay Street Social Club at Bay and Catherine streets, apparently an unlicensed bar. Particularly helpful for the jury, I would imagine, was that both defendants testified in their own behalf?each contradicting the other. Defense counsel set the stage during her opening statement, explaining that the jury would hear a case of "sex for money for drugs that went awry" ...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).