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...clerk in some instances may schedule cases, send certain cases to judges he considers potentially sympathetic, arrange for continuances, and reduce the waiting period before a case goes to trial...
Cambridge City Councilor Walter J. Sullivan, who is also an assistant clerk of courts at the Middlesex Court House, and whose brother is the clerk of courts of the Middlesex Superior and Supreme Courts, has raised $10,905 for his re-election campaign, with a significant number of donations coming from lawyers who are not Cambridge residents...
Sullivan had raised over twice as much money as any other council candidate as of October 31, according to records in the city clerk's office...
...Boston-area lawyer who has tried cases in several district and superior courts, and who asked not to be identified, said yesterday, "This applies to every court, you know, the buddy system." His description of the clerk's powers was the same as Burke...
...Levanter is not content merely to engineer or observe acts of humiliation. He is also an avenging angel. At an Alpine ski resort he blows up the vacationing henchman who tortures the subjects of a Middle East potentate. He devises an excruciating end for a New York hotel clerk who betrays visiting Eastern European guests to their native apparatchiks. This deed over, Levanter privately gloats because authorities cannot discover a plot linking killer and victim. As he does so, the murder is already fading from memory: "It was nothing but an old Polaroid snapshot; no negative, photographer unknown, camera thrown...