In the north of Boston city of Salem, this is considered a very scary month. All kinds of horrors are building up toward the holiday of Halloween. There are goblins, vampires, ghosts and the like. It is not all fun and games, though. Police must be ever-watchful for the true…
As you might assume, I hear many complaints about the criminal justice system while fighting for clients’rights and freedom in the Boston area. Many feel they are being investigated or charged unfairly by prosecuting attorneys. Some feel like the system is too slow. Others feel the unfairness of what I…
Renowned film director Roman Polanski says he intends to fight efforts to extradite him to the United States on charges that he had sex with a minor in 1977. The 76-year-old filmmaker was apprehended in Switzerland last Saturday where he had arrived to accept a lifetime achievement award that the…
Paul Shanley, 78, (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) is a defrocked priest who was sentenced in 2005 to 12 to 15 years for raping a 6-year-old boy in a Boston suburb parish in the 1980s. Now, his attorneys are challenging the conviction. Most of the testimony by the complainant against the Defendant…
Police say that the 18-year-old Hofstra University student who says she was gang raped by five men in a campus dorm has admitted that the sex was consensual. The four men who were arrested and each charged with five counts of first-degree rape are to be released from police custody.…
First of all, allow me to establish that I am an ardent Beatles fan. Second, let me confess that I have been imbedded in the criminal justice system for about a quarter of a century. As such, there is a certain type of “ear” that I have developed over the…
Yesterday’s Boston Herald signaled the end to the saga of former sportscaster Bob Gamere’s (hereinafter, the “Defendant”) in federal court which was co-hosted by federal prosecuting attorneys. Apparently, he is expected to plead guilty to child pornography charges. The Defendant was charged last October with two counts of transporting child…
In Suffolk County, an Allston man has been arrested for beating and raping a 66-year-old woman. Jose Sariano Gonzales pleaded not guilty to the charges of rape, resisting arrest, and the assault and battery of a victim over 65. The 20-year-old is also accused of punching the woman in the…
In court on Friday, registered sex offender Phillip Garrido and his wife Nancy pleaded not guilty to 29 felony charges in the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard. Dugard was just 11 when the couple abducted her in 1991 while she was walking to her school bus stop. Her stepfather saw…
Boston-area police have been searching for two suspects in connection with a reported rape in the Coolidge Corner area of Brookline. Today, an arrest was made. Brookline Police say that they believe that the man they arrested this morning is one of the two alleged rapists who abducted and raped…