In an opinion released this morning, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court today reversed the First Degree Murder conviction against Jerome McNulty, who in 2001, had been convicted of the murder of Linda Correia, 27, in her Salem bedroom. In its decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court held that McNulty’s right…
The two men charged with First Degree Murder for the killing of 18-year old Cedirick Steele are once again on trial, for the third time. The first two trials against Antwon Carter and Daniel Pickney, Jr., resulted in mistrials: the first one resulted in a deadlocked jury; and the second…
Boston Criminal Lawyer Lefteris K. Travayiakis successfully represented a man falsely accused of raping of a woman dating back in 1988. The client had initially been indicted in 2003 with two counts of Aggravated Rape and Kidnapping. The Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office alleged that the defendant had raped a…
Sharnell Donahue, 31, and Diane Tuck, 51, both of Everett, Massachusetts, were each arraigned this morning in East Boston District Court for allegedly trying to rob a Winthrop woman of drugs. According to the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office, Donahue, while wearing a ski mask, allegedly stabbed the 44 year…
Eva Flores, the teenage mom who allegedly threw her newborn out a 2nd floor window shortly after giving birth has been indicted by a Suffolk County Grand Jury. The newborn was found on September 20, 2010, in an alleyway in East Boston when a neighbor heard the baby’s cries and…
Marcos A. Colono was indicted yesterday by a Middlesex County Grand Jury in connection with the Rape of an 11 year old boy in Cambridge this past August, as well as for brutally assaulting the boy’s father who came to his son’s defense. He was charged with two counts of…
Christopher A. Higgins was arrested shortly after allegedly robbing Hyde Park Savings Bank in West Roxbury Wednesday morning with the ‘getaway driver’ being a friend who had no idea he had just robbed the bank. The Boston Police Department reports that Higgins asked his friend to drive him to Hyde…
A Boston Police Officer has been charged with two counts of Assault & Battery arising from a domestic altercation that involved his wife and mother-in-law last weekend. David Marchant, 26, of Dorchester and a patrolman for the Boston Police Department, was arraigned on two charges of Assault & Battery. A…
A Lawrence man was the victim of a carjacking earlier this afternoon in Lawrence, Massachusetts. According to the Lawrence Police Department, the man was carjacked by two men known to him, and after the attack, the victim tracked the men down, whom he apparently knew. When Police found the vehicle,…
Kyle Alleyne, 25, of Framingham, Massachusetts, was indicted for Murder Charges by a Middlesex County Grand Jury in connection with the death of his wife, Heather Alleyne, 19, whose body was found in the couple’s home on August 9th. According to the MIddlesex County District Attorney’s Office, Kyle Alleyne has…