A Walpole man is facing five charges following an early morning, one-car crash that occurred this past Monday on Main Street in Medfield. One of the charges is a Medfield OUI otherwise known as Medfield DUI or Drunk Driving in Medfield. The 23-year-old Walpole resident was returning home from UMass…
It’s a sign of the times. It used to be that the worst thing you could do when driving was to pick up and answer your cell phone, get distracted, and cause an accident, or worse, a Massachusetts motor vehicle homicide. Nowadays, it’s texting while driving that we all have…
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,…
If you think it’s bad enough to be arrested on one charge – imagine what it’s like to be arrested on six charges. That’s exactly what happened to one Cesar Ortiz, of Waltham, the other night. He was in his car in Norwood, at the Rama Plaza on Washington Street,…
Boston sex offenders now have one more thing to worry about. The city is the first in the USA to dedicate a police officer to the U.S. Marshals Sex Offender Investigations Branch. Their goal in teaming up together is to coordinate their efforts to track down convicted sex offenders who…
Apparently someone has been stealing from people in one of the least likeliest (and most heartless) of places – a cemetery. According to police in Lawrence, Massachusetts, in at least two instances last week, women had their purses stolen from their cars, while they visited St. Mary’s Immaculate Conception Cemetery…
As a Boston/Dedham motor vehicle violations lawyer, I caution my clients all the time about how important it is to practice driver safety. There is no more worse sound than that of steel and glass from one vehicle hitting another with powerful impact. In Everett yesterday, the air was filled…
A Massachusetts man, who allegedly hails from New York’s famous Colombo crime family, is expected to plead guilty next week, to charges of racketeering conspiracy, which are related to alleged large-scale drug trafficking in Massachusetts. Next Thursday, Ralph DeLeo of Somerville, is expected to plead guilty in U. S. District…
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…
Readers of my blog will recall that I recently ran a Masssachusetts OUI/DUI post about Melanie’s Law, which was a new drunk driving law that the Massachusetts Legislature enacted in 2005. It was named after Melanie Powell of Marshfield. She was a 13-year-old who was killed by a repeat drunk…