According to an article in the MetroWest Daily News, a Framingham man was recently arraigned on a charge of homicide by negligent operation of a boat. The charges stem from an incident last summer when the defendant and his friends, including the alleged victim, were boating on Lake Cochituate. According…
According to an article in the MetroWest Daily News, a Concord man was found with LSD and marijuana in his possession while he was traveling in Ashland. An officer stopped the defendant’s car in Ashland for speeding. After the officer pulled the defendant over, he approached his car and reportedly…
Twenty years ago, a young man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a crime – felony murder – that was committed when he was seventeen years old. At the time of the crime, the defendant and a friend got into a car with three…
Up until this week, Massachusetts law allowed for the imposition of community lifetime parole (CPSL) under G. L. c. 127 § 133D. CPSL is intensive parole supervision by the parole board. It may only be imposed after a defendant is convicted of a sex offense. A CPSL sentence begins after…
According to an article in the MetroWest Daily News, a 24 year-old man from Framingham, was involved in an altercation with another man this past week. The article states that the defendant and the other man were assaulting each other. During the incident, the defendant allegedly picked up a rock and hit…
According to an article in the MetroWest Daily News, a Shrewsbury, MA man threatened a McDonald’s employee earlier this week. The man was apparently a former employee of the McDonald’s, and went into the restaurant looking for the alleged victim with a crow bar in his hand. When the man saw…
According to an article in the MetroWest Daily News, former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez is facing new murder charges out of Suffolk County. Hernandez is already accused of murdering a man (Odin Lloyd) last year, and has pending murder charges in Plymouth County. The new charges stem from an…
This past Tuesday, the Supreme Judicial Court issued a decision in Commonwealth v. Watts. The decision held that the Raise the Age legislation, which raised the age of defendants who could be charged in adult court from seventeen to eighteen, is not retroactive, and therefore does not apply to cases…
According to an article in the MetroWest Daily News, a man attempted to enter a Framingham apartment located at 12 Richardson Circle in the early hours of Saturday morning. A resident reportedly called the police and alleged that someone had broken into his home. The resident stated that he noticed that…
According to an article in the MetroWest Daily News, a Pennsylvania man who came to Massachusetts to buy a home has been arrested and charged with indecent assault and battery on a person over fourteen. The article states that the man went to an open house at a home in…