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Attleboro Man is Third Charged in June Home Invasion

Posted on November 22, 2010
Hans Johnson, a 20-year-old Attleboro man, has been charged with conspiracy to commit home invasion. He was scheduled to be arraigned in Attleboro District Court today. The arrest was made in connection with the June 23 beating and shooting death of 24-year-old Dylan Adams...

Man Charged in Cold Case New Bedford Murder

Posted on November 22, 2010
Bristol County prosecutors announced today that John Loflin has been charged with the 2002 murder of Marlene Rose, whose body was found on New Bedford railroad tracks. Rose had been strangled. Until today, no one had been charged in connection with Rose?s death, but forensic science and new evidence have allegedly connected Loflin to her death...

Two Everett Woman Accused in Botched Winthrop, Massachusetts Robbery and Stabbing Plead Not Guilty

Posted on November 20, 2010
In East Boston District Court, Sharnell Donahue, 31, and Diane Tuck, 51, have pleaded not guilty to the Massachusetts criminal charge of armed assault with intent to rob. Donahue also entered not guilty pleas to the charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and armed assault with intent to murder...

Attorney Sam?s Take: Ongoing Federal Criminal Investigation Yields 23 More Heroin Suspects In Raids Throughout Massachusetts

Posted on November 19, 2010
Many experienced criminal defense attorneys are going to be needed for the 23 alleged heroin dealers arrested in a large raid yesterday. The ongoing joint investigation by federal and Massachusetts law enforcement yielded arrests throughout the Commonwealth, but primarily Brockton...

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Nicholas Christian, a 30-year-old

Posted on November 19, 2010
Nicholas Christian, a 30-year-old Lynn man, was to be arraigned today in Lynn District Court. He is charged with unarmed robbery on a person over 60, aggravated assault on a person over 60, and receiving stolen property under $250. The charges arose from the beating of an 89-year-old woman while a man stole her purse earlier in the week...

Supreme Judicial Court Says Drug Evidence Cannot Be Used in Boston College Students? Criminal Case

Posted on November 18, 2010
The Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that the marijuana, cocaine, and psilocybin mushrooms allegedly discovered in the dorm room of two Boston College students in 2007 cannot be used as evidence in the Massachusetts drug case against them. John Sherman and Daniel Carr face charges of cocaine trafficking, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, and possession with intent to distribute psilocybin mushroom...

Attorney Sam?s Take: Criminal Defense Attorneys Claim Their Clients In Drug And Identity Theft Cases Are Not The Guilty Parties

Posted on November 17, 2010
There are many types of defense in the criminal justice system, They are the same in Boston as they are anywhere else. ?SODDI?, Some Other Dude Did It, is one of the most popular ones. When the Commonwealth?s finger of accusation is pointed at a suspect, said suspect rarely points his or her finger in the same direction...

Mutilated Body Found in Milton

Posted on November 17, 2010
A mutilated body was found in an upscale Milton neighborhood on Monday night. Police told the Boston Globe that the mutilation was extensive and gruesome. Residents are shocked that the body was found in their neighborhood, and police are looking into the possibility that the body was dumped there...

Church Arsonist Sentenced in MA Case

Posted on November 17, 2010
Benjamin Haskell, a 25-year-old Springfield man, was sentenced to 6 years in a case brought by Massachusetts prosecutors. The sentence is concurrent with his 9-year federal sentence for burning down the Macedonia Church of God in Christ, a mostly-black church, to protest the 2008 election of President Obama...

Man Shot in Laundry Room of Lowell Apartment

Posted on November 15, 2010
A man is in critical condition after being shot in the laundry room of his Lowell apartment building. The Middlesex district attorney?s office, the Lowell police and the state police are currently conducting an investigation. No arrests have been made yet...

Attorney Sam?s Take: Harvard University Campus Is The Scene Of Robbery, Assault And Shooting

Posted on November 15, 2010
After a week nursing an eye issue, I am back to my Boston Criminal Law Blog?although it may take another week or two to go daily. I plan to blog Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week. Hopefully, the other ?mini-blogs? are keeping you informed, if not entertained, in the meantime...

Collection Boxes Looted at Roxbury Church

Posted on November 15, 2010
Someone looted money from collection boxes and smashed a stained glass window at Roxbury?s Mission Church this weekend. Church personnel reported the theft on Sunday morning. Police told the Boston Globe that between $200 and $300 could have been in the collection boxes...

Hit and Run in Roxbury Leaves Scooter Driver Dead

Posted on November 15, 2010
A speeding car near 1400 Tremont St. in Roxbury killed a man riding a scooter on Sunday night. The vehicle then kept going and headed toward Brigham Circle. The man was pronounced dead at Brigham and Women?s Hospital. He has not been indentified awaiting notification to his family...

Newton Teens Face Serious Charges After Waltham Slaying

Posted on November 14, 2010
Two Newton teenagers, 17-year-old Benjamin Peirce and 18-year-old Shaquan Jacobs, were arraigned Wednesday in Superior Court in Woburn on murder, armed robbery and firearms charges. Both pleaded not guilty. The charges arose from the September fatal shooting of Adam Coveney, a 29-year-old Waltham man...

South Boston Man Charged in Wedding Limo Carjacking

Posted on November 13, 2010
Police have charged 45-year-old Joseph Ghella of South Boston in the carjacking of a limo in front of a church where a wedding was taking place. The alleged carjacking occurred last Saturday in Dorchester around 1:45 p.m. A man who was allegedly armed with a hammer forced the driver and six bridesmaids out of the limo...

Armed Robbery in Harvard Yard

Posted on November 12, 2010
An armed robbery occurred early Thursday in the famous Harvard Yard. A man who was unaffiliated with Harvard University was robbed at gunpoint outside of a freshman dorm around 2:45 a.m. He gave his wallet to the robber and fled from the area. The robber was described as a thin, 5-foot-9 Hispanic male in his 20s...

Everett Women Charged in Winthrop Stabbing

Posted on November 12, 2010
Suffolk County prosecutors told the Boston Globe that two Everett women, 31-year-old Sharnell Donahue and 51-year-old Diane Tuck, have been charged with armed assault with intent to murder and armed assault with intent to rob in connection with a Winthrop stabbing...

Quincy Man Charged with Massachusetts Assault and Battery with a Dangerous Weapon Says He Acted in Self-Defense

Posted on November 10, 2010
According to Column J. Flaherty?s Boston criminal defense attorney, his 62-year-old client was acting in self-defense when he stabbed another man with a folding knife. Flaherty, who pleaded not guilty to Massachusetts assault and battery with a dangerous weapon over the Dorchester stabbing, was released on $500 cash bail...

Attorney for Teen Mother Accused of Throwing Newborn Out Window Says Client was Raped

Posted on November 08, 2010
The defense attorney for Eva Flores, the 18-year-old charged with throwing her newborn baby out of the window of her East Boston home, said that Flores did so because she was raped and the rapist threatened to kill her and her family. Flores has pleaded not guilty to various charges including assault and battery of a child under 14 with injuries and reckless endangerment of a child in Suffolk Superior Court...

Homicide Toll Rises with 2 Killed Over the Weekend

Posted on November 08, 2010
Boston?s homicide toll continued to rise as two were killed over the weekend. Thomas Whitley, a 30-year old Roxbury man, and an unidentified teenager were killed, marking the 62nd and 63rd homicides this year. At this time last year, the homicide toll was 43...

Woman Acquitted of Massachusetts Second-Degree Murder in Husband?s Fatal Boston Stabbing

Posted on November 06, 2010
Sharon Fitzpatrick, the woman charged with stabbing her husband Sylvester Mitchell at their home in May 2007 has been acquitted of Massachusetts second-degree murder. This was the second time that her Boston murder case had gone to trial. The first one had ended in a mistrial after jurors were unable to break their deadlock...

Marcos Colono of Cambridge Indicted in Home Invasion

Posted on November 05, 2010
Marcos Colono, a 32-year-old Cambridge man, was indicted Thursday in Middlesex Superior Court on two counts of rape of a child by force, two counts of home invasion, armed assault with intent to murder, and other charges. Prosecutors claim that Colono raped an 11-year-old boy and stabbed his father during a home invasion...

Attorney Sam?s Take: Well-Known "Power Broker"/Criminal Defendant Is Arrested On Outstanding Default Warrant In Decades-Old Sex Case

Posted on November 05, 2010
Some people can always be found in one type of court or another. Take, for example, New York City basketball czar Ernest Lorch. He was arrested this week by the United States Marshals Service after failing to appear for arraignment on sex abuse charges out of Massachusetts last week...

Auburn Man Placed on Probation After Search Uncovers Gun Arsenal

Posted on November 05, 2010
Anthony Simulynas, a 74-year-old man from Auburn, has been placed on 10 years of probation for charges arising from a seizure of 85 firearms and 800 pounds of ammunition from his home. A former gun dealer, Simulynas pleaded guilty to 16 counts of possessing an infernal machine, two counts of possessing a firearm or ammunition without a firearm identification card, and one count of improperly storing a firearm...

Dorchester Woman Convicted of Involuntary Manslaughter

Posted on November 05, 2010
Verna Sewell, a 65-year-old Dorchester woman, was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in Suffolk Superior Court yesterday, according to the Boston Globe. The case arose out of the May 2009 stabbing death of 74-year-old Julius Scott, who shared an apartment with Sewell...

Dorchester Man Pleads Not Guilty to Bank Robbery

Posted on November 05, 2010
Christopher Higgins, a 43-year-old Dorchester man, pleaded not guilty Thursday in West Roxbury municipal court to one count of unarmed robbery and was held on $5,000 cash bail. It is alleged that Higgins robbed a West Roxbury bank and tricked his friend into driving the getaway car by saying he got into a fight at the bank and had to leave quickly...

Arrest Warrant And Criminal Investigation Lead To Police Shooting In Somerville MA

Posted on November 04, 2010
Tuesday night there was yet another shooting in the Boston area. This time it was in Somerville. By the time it was over, a police detective was wounded and a young man was dead. So far, there is nobody to label ?Defendant? in this one. The young man, Mathew Krister, 21, (hereinafter, the ?Deceased), is said to be the assailant...

A Boston Homicide Trial And When To Talk To Investigating Police Officers

Posted on November 03, 2010
Do you think that homicide is a game only the young can play? Well, Verna S., a 65 year-old woman from Dorchester woman (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) would beg to differ. Yesterday, she was convicted in the May 2009 stabbing death of a 74-year-old man, Julius S...

Elizabeth Smart Kidnapping Case In Federal Court Starts ? Is He Competent To Stand Trial?

Posted on November 02, 2010
The good people of Salt Lake City have been chomping at the bit for a currentt trial. It has been a long time in coming. It is the trial of the alleged abductor of Elizabeth Smart. 57-year-old Brian David Mitchell (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) is the man accused...

Massachusetts Police Student Assaults, Murders And Gun Crimes (CJS Perspective, Pt.III)

Posted on November 01, 2010
Last week, I began this mini-series about perspectives in the criminal justice system. I started with that of the police officers. As the week went on, the news was more and more full of examples illustrating my point. First, the only alleged police misconduct dominating the Boston news in took place in New York...

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