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Herald Story a Reilly Campaign Plant??

I can’t say for sure whether today’s Herald Story was spoon fed to Dave Wedge by the Reilly Committee, but the evidence points that way. Read more here. The entire thread starts here.

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More on the LaGuer Case

The first issue is probably most easily understood by watching this Dan Rea news broadcast from soon after the fingerprint report came out. Rea ends his report on the “pending DNA test.” That brings us...

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Chacon talks to the Sentinel & Enterprise

In the LaGuer flap (see earlier post today), the Sentinel & Enterprise of Fitchburg and Leominster got Patrick spokesman Richard Chacon to elaborate on the candidate’s comments regarding the LaGuer...

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Globe: DAs Concerned about Wrongful Convictions

Today’s Boston Globe had and interesting article on steps the Massachusetts District Attorneys Association (MDAA) wants to take to cut down on wrongful convictions. Read the article here or here. The...

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Rehnquist to File SJC Brief in LaGuer Case Monday

The SJC deadline for Benjamin LaGuer’s pro bono attorney James C. Rehnquist to file his brief is this Monday. I will post it to the BenLaGuer web site as soon as it is public and I can get ahold of a...

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Rehnquist has filed his brief in the Benjamin LaGuer case

The ball is now in Sandra Hautanen’s court. Ben LaGuer’s team of pro bono lawyers headed by James C. Rehnquist filed their brief in the Supreme Judicial Court yesterday. It is posted as a PDF file to...

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Mary Jean v. Mass. State Police et. als.

Leominster mom Mary Jean’s attorneys at the ACLU and a prestigious Boston law firm have filed their response to AG Tom Reilly’s appeal of a federal injunction against the Mass. State police regarding...

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Internet Law In The Making

September 23, 2006 Lawyers laud ruling on arrest video: Police ordered Leominster woman to remove footage from Web site By Richard Nangle TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF rnangle@telegram.com Lawyers for a...

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Dean Mazzarella’s Postshot at LaGuer/Patrick Connection. (some context)

Testimonials Compiled and Edited By Benjamin LaGuer “When Benjamin LaGuer was sentenced in 1984 to life in prison for raping a Leominster neighbor, the jury ruled without a shred of physical evidence...

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Mazzarella Slammed on Shilling for Healey

Here’s another thing I love about the Internet: Comment links at the bottom of Newspaper articles. The Sentinel and Enterprise of Fitchburg and Leominster ran a story on the much hyped but little...

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Romney’s Stinky Judicial Nominee Set For Confirmation

The risks attached to Lemire have to do with the fact that his conduct as a prosecutor will be part of an SJC hearing in December. I am referring to the Benjamin LaGuer case in which it turns out the...

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Ben LaGuer on YouTube (News Report of the “Spic” Remark)

Now that the white hot politicization of the Ben LaGuer case is subsiding it is worth taking some time to look at what it was that got so many highpowerd people involved back in the 1990s. I have...

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Healy Misunderstands Fundamental Constitutional Rights

Lieutenant Governor Healey doesn’t think the citizens of Massachusetts want to elect someone who, as an attorney, represented an individual in the appeal of the sentence in a murder trial.  History...

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WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL?

WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RIGHT TO A FAIR TRIAL? Kerry Healy’s latest ad denounces Patrick for “doing his job” by defending Carl Ray Songer, “an admitted cop killer”.  She has accused Patrick of being “soft...

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Innocence Project

“The Innocence Project” through DNA testing has been responsible for the release of over 170 wrongly convicted prisoners in the US.  A documentary on the work of the Project is being aired on October...

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Justice Antonin Scalia: Deval Patrick was right on the Songer case

OK, folks, this Songer business has gone far enough. In 1985, Deval Patrick represented Carl Ray Songer, arguing that his death sentence was unconstitutionally imposed because of a defect in the...

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Mass Lawyers Weekly endorses Deval

<lawyers Weekly October 16, 2006 Editorial Deval Patrick for governor During the 34-year history of Lawyers Weekly, the paper has never endorsed a candidate for elected office. This practice was...

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Response to Globe Letter to the Editor

In today’s Boston Globe there was a response to the Letter to the Editor that I submitted regarding John Adams’ defense of the British in the Boston Massacre The letter writer clearly missed my point...

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Will Dave Wedge do the Right Thing?

It’s always an interesting experience when the phone rings and it’s The Herald’s Dave Wedge on the other end. He wanted to know how I thought the politicization of the LaGuer case would affect the...

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Herald’s Dave Wedge does a good job

No, I don’t particularly care to re-hash more Ben LaGuer stuff, but the Herald’s Dave Wedge does what should have been done by any number of media outlets weeks ago: Present the simple facts of the...

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