Cop on Cop Killing and a Right to Know

Laurel Sweet of the Boston Herald has shed some light on a case that would likely not otherwise have gotten it. Initially, Essex County DA Jonathan Blodgett declined to investigate the ‘Motive” of a cop on cop shooting leaving one officer in the hospital and the other dead of a self inflicted gunshot wound. However, as the pressured mounted for answers---that decision has changed.

Possible 5^th Offense OUI Charge in Wakefield, Massachusetts

Anytime someone is believed to be 1) operating a motor vehicle 2) on a Public way and 3) under the influence of alcohol such that it affect their ability to drive the vehicle safely—they are charged with OUI---Or operating under the influence of alcohol. And if someone has been charged and convicted prior to that---they become a repeat offender.

SEX CRIMES and the INTERNET--- SKYPE

A nightmare scenario for any parent is to find out that there son or daughter has been charged with a sex crime. Sex crimes can come in all different forms. With the advent of technology such as SKYPE, FACEBOOK.com and MYSPACE.com. Young adults can find themselves discussing sexual acts and/or acting out sexual acts without thinking through the consequences. They have the privacy of their bedroom and often times don’t think that it is “wrong”. Many of those accused act knowing they haven’t “touched” anyone so they feel that it not criminal or improper.

SALEM MOM ACCUSED OF HITTING GIRL ON BUS

When a local mother was concerned about her young child being mistreated at school she did something she now regrets, but she also did something very smart. According to the Salem Evening News, Dominique Hans told reporters before her court appearance yesterday that she "touched her chin and turned her head and told her 'I do not want you to hit him again,'" after the girl started crying and looking out the window when approached. Hans insisted she never hit the girl.The smart thing that did was Ms. Han did was give her own version of facts to the media that came directly from her. When you hear her version of events appears to involve a lapse in judgment, a lot of passion and emotion—yet in the end, according to Ms. Hans simply touched the girls chin.

ARMED ROBBERY SUSPECT IN Wakefield—Joint Venture Liability

If you are involved with someone who commits a crime they can take you down with them. It called “Joint Venture” which is “like” conspiracy but easier to convict. According to the Wakefield Patch, Ashley Mazac was a victim of such an allegation. But it doesn’t mean she is guilty---it means they can try and find her guilty. 

The Massachusetts Senate on Thursday, November 10, 2011, passed An Act Relative to Habitual Offenders, Sentencing and Improving Enforcement Tools. The bill is now headed to the Massachusetts House of Representatives for deliberation. This law---as written may sound inviting and comforting to the average law-abiding citizen. However, the real life consequences are not always positive. Often you may have factual circumstances in which the charges are weak, questionable or simply not true. Often you may have personal circumstances, which can mitigate or explain some elements of the Defendants background. For example, the Defendant is a veteran suffering from posttraumatic -stress disorder, or a young woman who is also mentally retarded. Those are not legal excuses for committing a crime---nor should they be. But most reasonable people would agree that those factors should be included in fashioning a punishment for a Defendant. When the court is bound by “minimum mandatory sentences” any factors in the persons life are not considered in sentencing. This is but a small footnote in the minimum mandatory debate—however, other issues in the debate include the inherent cost of incarcerating inmates for years and decades and the public cost of supporting the families of incarcerated criminals. 

Libya was on the UNITED NATIONS Human Rights Commission up to 2011. Libya and the Secret Killing of the Gaddafi Family. 

Libya was on the UNITED NATIONS Human Rights Commission up to 2011. Yet, the world says he was actually a brutal dictator. But when asked specifically about the allegations they give sparse details and inflated assumptions.

According to the Boston Herald, a man who is serving a 10-year prison sentence for seriously injuring his son nearly 8 years ago- is facing charges AGAIN for the same crime. The Stoneham man is Brian Saucier. Middlesex District Attorney Gerry Leone said that 41-year-old Brian Saucier was indicted Thursday by a Middlesex County grand jury on one count of murder. According to authorities, Stoneham police found Saucier holding his then 6-week-old son in September 2002. The baby had stopped breathing and was later diagnosed with shaken baby syndrome. Police said the boy went through several months of treatment and then lived in a "vegetative state" with his mother until he died in May of this year.

According to the Boston Globe, three men emerged from the darkness on a New Jersey side street Tuesday night, he said, screaming “terrorists’’ at the young couple out for a stroll with their toddler. They killed his young wife with a bullet in the heart and shot him, too, once in the shoulder and once in the ankle. But yesterday Kashif Parvaiz admitted to police that his story was a lie. Police investigating the execution-style killing of Nazish Noorani, 27, in the small town of Boonton, N.J., 30 miles from Manhattan, said yesterday that he was carrying out a plot to kill his wife, with the help of a Billerica woman, in a crime eerily reminiscent of the infamous Charles Stuart murder case that rocked Boston more than two decades ago. Parvaiz, who had been living in East Boston, was charged yesterday with the murder of his wife in a conspiracy with Antionette Stephen, 26, of Billerica.