More than a few people have asked me over the past ten days or so, what I think of the rape allegations being made against actor Bill Cosby, and what I think should be done about them. This is a good question, because several of the accusations involve a mix…
File this under “Now I’ve really seen it all,” and “This world is spiraling down faster than a toilet flush.” I am — what are the words here? – disgusted, mortified, shocked and appalled at the new “Animals” music video that was released this week by one Adam Levine, the…
According to press reports including The Enterprise of Brockton, Bridgewater State University police campus recently received allegations of two rapes on campus. University officials didn’t make the reports public and inform students. Sound like a foolish, ridiculous decision, no? Before the usual names in the feminist community start screaming how…
I’ve said something in particular about Massachusetts sexual assault cases on this site many times, but this time I have some more local and recent evidence to make the point again, so here goes: People will occasionally ask me how I can defend people accused of sexual offenses, such as…
If it’s up to a company called DrinkSavvy, that straw in your mixed drink – and the plastic cup that holds it – may prevent future incidences of drug rape or date rape. Here’s a typical “drug rape/date rape” scenario. An attractive woman – or man – is in a…
Some people just don’t get it. What I mean, is that some people just don’t seem to understand that rape is a crime. And not just a word to use – and misuse – in a song. In another display of complete insensitivity – and stupidity – a rapper, who…
In my career, more than one person has asked me the oft-repeated question, “How can you defend people accused of rape and other terrible crimes?” My answer is always the same: “What if it were you who were accused? Would you want everyone to just assume that you were guilty,…
As a Massachusetts rape attorney, it is my duty to zealously defend my clients to the best of my ability. However, there are certain things a rape defense lawyer cannot do in the process of defending a client in court. In the past, criminal defense lawyers would utilize a certain…
Convicted rapist William Polk of Dover, Massachusetts, has good reason to be optimistic today, now that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has granted him a retrial on the statutory rape charges he was convicted of two years ago. Mr. Polk was convicted in February, 2010, on two charges of Massachusetts…
Call this one the April Fool’s Joke that no one thought funny. It was all about Massachusetts rape, Massachusetts prostitution, and Massachusetts date rape, involving fairytale characters. It seems that the editor of the Boston University Daily Free Press newspaper – who interestingly enough, is a woman – thought it…