Mass DUI Lawyer Russell Matson
Denise Casper has begun holding hearings in the trial of Whitey Bulger, Boston’s high profile mobster and former FBI informant. Out of the gate, the new judge has made efforts to show just how little has changed in the outlook of the trial. Still expected to start in June, still expected to last throughout the entire summer, Casper tried to portray her first day of hearings as a smooth transition in a case that is otherwise long underway. [click to continue…]
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The Boston Globe initiated an investigation into OUI cases where defendants waived their rights to a jury trial, electing to have their case heard before a judge (bench trial) instead, and specifically how these cases seemed to result in a positive outcome for the defendants more often than those heard before a jury. It was as a result of the Globe’s investigation that the Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts ordered their own investigation into the matter, to be completed by R.J. Cinquegrana with the firm of Choat, Hall & Stewart LLO, acting as a special counsel. [click to continue…]
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