Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Constitutional Law Blogs -> Chris King's 1st Amendment Page

Constitutional Law

: Chris King's 1st Amendment Page

KingCast, the Boston Phoenix & TOUCH 106.1 FM present: The Definitive post on DA Dan Conley; he's inept, arrogant, racist and rude.

By Christopher King

In February, 2009 Dan Conley refused to speak to a former State AAG and newspaper editor who blogged 35 videos of a contentious murder trial in the death of Revere Officer Daniel Talbot. In this YouTube video he put his finger in this black man's face and asked him for "credentials" even though he was aware that Judge Patrick Brady had given the man such credentials to roll video, take audio and still pictures and to provide commentary.

Mr. Bernstein shed some light on why DA Conley gets so pissy when you challenge him, particularly when he knows you've been a successful trial lawyer. Here's a 2005 Story by Bernstein "The Worst Homicide Squad in the Country."

Boston also has an unusually high number of convictions reversed on appeal or vacated as wrongful San Francisco, for instance, has released two people wrongfully convicted of murder in the past 15 years; Boston released that many last year alone.

Simply put, the BPD's homicide unit has the worst track record of any big-city police department in the country.

What's more, certain murders are even less likely to be solved. When the victim is a black man aged 17 to 35 as is the case in nearly half of all Boston homicides the arrest rate over the past six years is just 31 percent. (The map on this page shows how this has played out since the start of 2004, in the roughly six-square-mile patch of Dorchester, Mattapan, and Roxbury where almost half of the city's killings take place and where hardly any get solved.)

Not that Dan Conley really cares because he thinks he can ignore a black man at will. And it gets worse:

And police officers lie. In just the past 12 months, in six entirely separate cases, the BPD, the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, the Supreme Judicial Court, a federal jury, a US District Court judge, and a commission led by a former US attorney all concluded that BPD officers had perjured themselves or lied to investigators.

And last but not least Dan Conley is indeed a fascist, racist pig who - as I've stated - hates the First Amendment. That's why the Phoenix gave him the Muzzle Award in 2003 for supporting the prosecution of a black man who was passing anti-war information in honor of Dr. Martin Luther Coon (errr.. sorry, that's Conley-speak, I mean King, like my last name).

As Naro has observed, it seems clear that police, responding to a call about the confrontation, saw a white, uniformed National Guardsman and a black, dashiki-clad man yelling at each other and did what came naturally: they arrested the black man, got physical with him, and then claimed he had assaulted them. Conley, as prosecutors are wont to do, declined to question the veracity of the police account.

"Free speech," Van Der Meer told Lombardi, "is not a criminal act." Unfortunately, on one day in April 2003, it was.

Thanks to the Universal Hub for maintaining this link about Suffolk County DA Dan Conley.

KingCast: Just the facts, shown in video. I look forward to round two.

Full post as published by Chris King's 1st Amendment Page on February 06, 2010 (boomark / email).