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Massachusetts Arrest Warrants Issued for Missing Clinton Attorney For Failing to Appear in Court Over Divorce Settlement

Posted on May 26, 2009
In Massachusetts, state and federal judges have issued arrest warrants for the capture of Cynthia Dziurgot, a Clinton attorney who has disappeared. Dziurgot, who owes her ex-husband almost a million dollars, failed to appear at bankruptcy and probate proceedings this month, and now US Marshals are looking for her...

North Of Boston Drug Bust Nets Over 500 Pounds Of Marihuana and $200,000 from Interstate Conspiracy

Posted on May 25, 2009
You?ve heard of Costco, haven?t you? It is a very popular chain of stores that specializes in cost-cutting by purchasing in volume. You know, why buy one box of napkins when you can by 80 and get a bargain in the process? It looks like some Boston-area entrepreneurs took the idea alittle too far this week...

What Should You Do If You Are Being Arrested In Boston? The Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog Answers The Questions Of What To Do Until You Contact Counsel

Posted on May 21, 2009
Once again, you are being arrested in Boston. Maybe you are out for a ?night out on the town? and the town, and its inhabitants, has turned on you. Perhaps you are carrying something that has been branded as illegal?such as a gun or some drugs. Maybe there is a warrant out for your arrest and, for some reason, those police officers on the corner are looking at you kinda funny...

Boston Area Gentleman Needs Defense Attorney After Guns, Drugs And Cash Are Found Throughout His Home

Posted on May 20, 2009
Mr. John F., 32 of Quincy (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?), needs a good lawyer. According to law enforcement, his home housed some ill-advised contents. As a result, he is now being described as a mid-level drug dealer. On Monday night, around 6:00pm, police raided the Defendant?s home...

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Massachusetts High School Senior Pleads Not Guilty to Saugus Pedestrian Accident that Killed a Senior Pedestrian and Seriously Injured Her Daughter

Posted on May 20, 2009
In Lynn District Court, Jonathan Caruso attended his arraignment on Monday, pleading not guilty to charges of negligent vehicle homicide, being a minor transporting liquor, and operating under the influence of alcohol in the deadly pedestrian accident that killed a 67-year-old woman and seriously injured her daughter early Saturday morning...

Boston Defendant Wrongfully Convicted For Rape And Robbery Wins Jury Trial Against The Commonwealth

Posted on May 19, 2009
David Frank, of Boston?s Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, has reported this week on a story that has become achingly familiar. It involves the issue of the wrongfully convicted. Ulysses C. (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) is now 59 years old. On May 17, 2001, he was released from prison after serving 19 years of an 80 year sentence for unlawful confinement, rape and robbery...

Boston Driver Assaults State Trooper With A Dangerous Weapon But Apologizes And Avoids A Guilty Finding; Her Attorney Says It Was For The "Right Reasons"

Posted on May 17, 2009
Being a police officer in the big city can be dangerous. We all know that. Logan Airport, of course, is within the limits of the city of Boston. So, it is not too shocking that it can be a dangerous place. Usually, though, that danger does not come inside the packaging of a Mercedes Benz SUV and presented by a Wellesley businesswoman...

Prosecuting Attorneys And Rhode Island Politicians Prevent Murder And Other Violent Felonies By Going After Victims And Other Easy Targets

Posted on May 15, 2009
This week ends as last week ended. From Boston to Providence, and beyond, law makers and enforcers are struggling with how to address the problems presented by the so-called ?Craigslist Killer? (hereinafter, ?CLK?). The case grows almost daily as he is now facing murder charges in Massachusetts and assault/robbery charges in Rhode Island...

You Have Been Arrested In Boston For Assault, Murder Or An Outstanding Warrant; Will You Be Released On Bail?

Posted on May 14, 2009
You are arrested in Massachusetts. Being an avid reader of the daily Boston Criminal Law Blog, you know that what you do in the next few minutes could mean the difference between sleeping at home or at the local jail for the next few weeks. You remember that there were a variety of postings that had talked about things that could help and things that could hurt your chances at being released on low bail...

Massachusetts Larceny Suspect Tries To Escape Police And Now Faces Felony Charges And More Jail Time

Posted on May 13, 2009
It has been awhile since the daily Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog has received news from the ?Hey, I?ll Bet I Can Make This Situation Worse? Club. Months ago, their members appeared quite frequently in my postings. Not to worry, though. They are back and one unfortunate member needs a criminal lawyer...

Evidence that Federal Prosecutor Withheld in Massachusetts Gun Case Could Have Cleared Defendant

Posted on May 13, 2009
In the US District Court in Massachusetts, Assistant US Attorney Suzanne Sullivan is asking Judge Mark L. Wolf not to impose sanctions on her for withholding evidence in a Massachusetts gun case. The federal prosecutor says that she made a mistake when she did not introducing the evidence and she is asking for leniency...

Prosecuting Attorneys Seek To Continue Holding Suspects Arrested For Illegal Gun Possession In Jail Without Bail Pending Trial

Posted on May 12, 2009
Monday saw the dawning of a new week. Boston-area newspapers, however, are discussing what is really an old problem. The subject of illegal possession of firearms is once again in focus. Let?s take a story from the town of Lawrence, for example. Police say that a 20 year old gentleman, Emmanuel M...

Suspects Arrested For Fraud, Harassment And Sex Crimes Linked To Craigslist

Posted on May 11, 2009
In Massachusetts and beyond, criminal defense attorneys are seeing more and more arrests being linked to the recent scrutiny of Craigslist. Last week, we spoke of the matter of the ?Craigslist Killer? and the attention he has brought to the website?s listing of sexually enticing advertisements...

Boston And Other Prosecuting Attorneys Target Craigslist And Prostitution In Murder And Robbery Cases

Posted on May 08, 2009
Boston, Rhode Island and the rest of the country are watching the criminal charges against infamous alleged ?Craigslist Killer? Phillip M. (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) pile up. Along with the criminal charges, are character flaws such as an addiction to gambling...

Drew Peterson Charged with Third Wife Kathleen Savio?s Murder

Posted on May 08, 2009
More than five years after Kathleen Savio?s death, her husband, ex-police sergeant, Drew Peterson, has been charged with her murder. Savio was found in a dry bathtub with her head soaked in blood from a head wound. The cause of her death was originally determined to be accidental drowning, but that finding came into question after Peterson?s fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, went missing in 2007 and the former cop became the main suspect in her disappearance...

Sex for sale. A Boston criminal lawyer's view of prostitution and the new internet sex trade industry

Posted on May 07, 2009
The city of Boston used to have an area known as the ?Combat Zone?. It was around the theatre district. In fact, the building that now houses the Department of Motor Vehicles used to be a store selling xxx-rated movies and books and prostitutes prowling the streets...

Boston Prostitute Violates Probation In Extortion Case And Is Sentenced To Halfway House

Posted on May 06, 2009
Workers in the sex trade have been in the news lately. First of all, we have heard a great deal about them as victims, as in the case of the so-called ?Craig?s List Killer?. Some have been in trouble for things other than prostitution. For example, awhile ago, the Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog told you about an enterprising lass who had had a long-standing money-for-sex relationship with an older wealthy gentleman...

Illegal Gun Possession is a Victimless Crime, Says Massachusetts?s Supreme Judicial Court

Posted on May 06, 2009
In Massachusetts, the state?s highest court says that defendants solely charged with illegal gun possession cannot be held without bail on the grounds that they might pose a danger to others. The Supreme Judicial Court says illegal gun possession alone is a crime that has no victims and is passive...

Experienced Boston Criminal Defense Attoney Unable To Blog

Posted on May 05, 2009
Unfortunately, Attorney Samuel Goldberg is unable to post this morning due to his court schedule. Stay tuned, however, for the rest of this week, which will have a theme. The theme concerns Sex, Money, Deceit and Murder. Yes, that means it will include, but not be limited to, the so-called "Craig's List Killer"...

Limo driver arrested for driving drunk -was driving high school students at time of arrest- loss of license and maybe job to follow

Posted on May 04, 2009
?Tis the season of high school proms. As a parent, I know the worry about what "the kids" are doing out there. It did not occur to me that the adults in charge of the kids might need some worrying too. However, take Boston-area limosine driver, Brain H...

Boston-Area Woman Robbed On Way To Cemetery - Two Arrested For The Theft

Posted on May 01, 2009
The daily Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog today examines a crime that has just got to provide a figurative punch to your gut. Elsie C., 83, (hereinafter, the ?Victim?) had just attended a church service. She was outside the Belmont Street Stop & Shop, reviewing her grocery receipt...

Sealing criminal records in MA- How a defense attorney can expunge/seal your record.

Posted on April 30, 2009
Ok, you are sitting in your home around Boston. You hear a police car, sirens screaming, speeding down the street. You momentarily jump because of that old warrant you used to have pending against you. Then, you relax; you remember that, after you started reading this daily blog, you contacted an experienced criminal defense lawyer and cleared the warrant, and the case attached to it,up...

Massachusetts Man Charged with DWI Accident Wants Victims? Credibility Questioned

Posted on April 30, 2009
In Massachusetts, a former Massachusetts National Guard sergeant is combating DWI charges involving a Concord bicycle accident that injured two cyclists. Adam Lamothe, 26, was going to plead guilty to the criminal charges of two counts of conduct after an accident and aggravated driving while intoxicated, but now he?s retained a new Massachusetts criminal defense law firm and he wants to question the victims? credibility...

Two tales from Framingham....from disorderly conduct to murder- criminal defense lawyers needed

Posted on April 29, 2009
Today, the daily Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog goes to Framingham?figuratively?where recent troubles seem to have taken place on both sides of the seriousness spectrum. Let?s start with Adilson D., 37 (hereinafter, ?Defendant 1?). He was displeased about a recent interaction with local police...

Lawyer remains jailed; charged with OUI, driving with suspended license and giving false name

Posted on April 28, 2009
A north of Boston attorney has found herself on the chair most often occupied by her clients. At least, that is, in court. Otherwise, she is in custody, held without bail, for driving offenses. Tracy T., 32, of Revere (hereinafter, the ?Defendant?) is being held without bail on what the Commonwealth alleges to be her third drunk driving charge...

Outside Boston, many arrested in embezzlement scheme. Charges of conspiracy to commit larceny and larceny over $250 brought against defendants.

Posted on April 27, 2009
As the rest of us in the Boston area were experiencing the upcoming summer heat, a few individuals were feeling heat of another kind, courtesy of Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone. District Attorney Leone announced last week that a Malden Treasury employee and nine others have been indicted for allegedly embezzling more than $518,000 in city property tax receipts...

Have an outstanding arrest warrant in MA? Here is how to deal with it.

Posted on April 24, 2009
Attorney Sam?s Take: Welcome to the first posting of a new weekly feature on the daily Boston Criminal Lawyer Blog. Each Friday, I will post in this particular format, dealing specifically with an issue which people face every day in the criminal justice system...

Boston criminal defense lawyer seeks to move high- profile case out of Suffolk County

Posted on April 23, 2009
By now, you have probably heard of the gentleman who has allegedly chosen the name ?Clark Rockefeller?. The Commonwealth says his real name, or part of it, is Christian K.G. We, however, will simply call him the ?Defendant?. He is facing charges in Boston for parental kidnapping...

Drug Arrests made in MA -Felony Drug Charges To Follow, Including Trafficking and Distribution

Posted on April 22, 2009
These have been big days for narcotics law enforcement specialists. State agencies as well as Boston?s various local FBI, ATF and DEA agents worked together to bring suspects to court and clients to lawyers. Let?s take Pittsfield first. There, three daytime raids resulted in the seizure of approximately $35,000 worth of drugs as well as the alleged leader of the Bloods gang...

Supreme Court Limits When Police Officers Can Search A Suspect's Car Without A Warrant

Posted on April 22, 2009
The Supreme Court has issued a ruling that places limits on when police officers can search a suspect's motor vehicle right after making an arrest if they don't have a warrant. With their 5-4 decision, the justices determined that police must have a warrant to search the auto if the person is locked up in the cruiser and is not a threat to the officers...

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