In Commonwealth v. Sliech-Brodeur decided earlier this month the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court reversed the first degree murder conviction of a woman who killed her husband. The Court recited the following facts: The victim and the defendant married in 1994. He was sixty. She was forty nine. They lived in…
Jorge Fernandez of Waltham and Antonio Rodriguez of Revere have both been charged with Cocaine Trafficking in the Middlesex County Superior Court in Woburn. Bail has been set at forty thousand dollars and one hundred thousand dollars respectively. The charges stem from an incident in Waltham alleged to have occurred…
A Beverly, Massachusetts was charged with Open and Gross Lewdness in the Salem District Court. According to reports the man was seen by police sitting on a bench in Danvers. His groin area was exposed. The police were in the area after receiving complaints about the man. Officers stated that the defendant’s…
In Commonwealth v. Mendez, Slip Op. July 15, 2010 the Massachusetts Appeals Court held that even if the prosecution permits the admission of otherwise excludable evidence it can later embrace the Rape Shield Statutes’ protections. Similarly, a judge can sua sponte exclude evidence that falls within those statutory exceptions. In…
Kristen Shields of North Andover, Massachusetts was charged in the Lowell District Court with Assault and Battery By Means of a Dangerous Weapon and Assault With the Intent to Murder. According to reports, Shields and her boyfriend were engaged in consensual sexual acts with a thirty nine New Hampshire woman.…
Just recently police in Framingham, Massachusetts were involved in an investigation involving Rafael Lopez and a Connecticut man. They had information that Lopez was selling cocaine. Lopez had an apartment in Framingham from which police observed people enter and quickly leave. This they believed to be consistent with drug related…
This past Thursday Santo “Macho” Suarez of Lawrence, Massachusetts was arrested and charged with Breaking and Entering, School Zone Violation and Distribution of a Class B Substance, Crack Cocaine. He was also charged with Resisting Arrest and Disorderly Person. According to reports Suarez sold Crack Cocaine to an undercover police…
Mark McConnell of Osborne Street in Salem, Massachusetts has been charged with Possession of Child Pornography and Distribution or Dissemination of Child Pornography in the Salem District Court. It is alleged that McConnell had downloaded photos and videos of girls who according to the district attorney had been Raped and…
The defendant was indicted by a Massachusetts Grand Jury and charged with Trafficking Cocaine over 28 Grams. He was also charged with a School Zone Violation. A Motion to Suppress was filed and argued. It was initially allowed and then denied, an unusual set of circumstances to say the least.…
The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office has indicted Diane Thistle, 63 of Beverly, Massachusetts alleging that the former hospital secretary stole over two hundred thousand dollars. The prosecution alleges that Thistle was taking cash from the hospital cafeteria. She would then use other funds intended to pay the cafeteria catering to…