• March 6, 2015 at 1:04 am by Steven Topazio

On March 4, 2015, opening statements were made to the jury in the Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Boston marathon bombing trial.  Although media coverage of the trial in Federal court is not allowed the drama was nevertheless high.  ABC News and the Associated Press reported that Tsarnaev’s attorney made a dramatic move in her opening statement and stated her client did the act. Defense attorney Judy Clarke told jurors “It was him”. She told the jury that read More

• March 3, 2015 at 12:38 am by Steven Topazio

It was reported today in the Boston Herald that a 5-year-old boy tumbled out of a moving SUV in Falmouth Massachusetts when his mother fled from a Wal-Mart parking lot with a stolen flat-screen television hanging out of her vehicle. “As the vehicle was fleeing the scene, a small child was ejected from the vehicle due to an unsecured door that was left ajar due to the size of the television,” the police statement said read More

• February 25, 2015 at 1:53 am by Steven Topazio

Prosecutors today sought to use testimony of former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez’s housekeeper in his murder trial to bolster their assertion that Hernandez’s fiancée Shayanna Jenkins, took steps to hide the missing murder weapon.   Hernandez’s fiancée has been charged as an accessory to murder for her suspected involvement in assisting Hernandez after he allegedly killed Lloyd. Carla Barbosa, a housekeeper who cleaned Aaron Hernandez’s North Attleboro home three times, testified that she saw Hernandez’s read More

• February 19, 2015 at 7:30 pm by Steven Topazio

Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s defense team told a federal appeals court today that their client’s case should be moved out of Boston because his crimes have received more publicity than even those of reputed gangster Whitey Bulger; arguing Tsarnaev cannot get a fair trial in Boston because of bias among potential jurors. Tsarnaev’s attorneys have raised the question of the “unexpressed” bias among those jurors. They argue the bombings and the lock down read More

• January 13, 2015 at 11:07 pm by Steven Topazio

According to a published reported in the Boston Globe on December 16, 2014, an off duty State Trooper was arraigned in Salem Superior Court on an OUI charge where it was alleged that he crashed his 1965 Corvette into a utility pole in North Andover in May of this year. The trooper was initially arraigned in the Lawrence District Court after the accident back in May, but was arraigned again today in Superior Court after read More