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...have reviewed the decision of the Supreme Judicial Court and fully intend to retry the defendant, Alexander Pring-Wilson, on behalf of the Commonwealth, the victim, and his family,” he wrote...
Quinlan was soon prompted to revisit her decision, when five months later the SJC allowed, in the case Commonwealth v. Adjutant, the admission of a victim’s violent history regardless of whether or not that history was known to the defendant...
...excuse not to act. Today adaptation has become an accepted part of the discussion. The latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which will be released April 6 in Brussels, makes it official. "Adaptation to climate change is now inevitable," says Roger Jones of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia, a co-author of the IPCC report. "The only question is whether it will be by plan or by chaos." Jones, like the other contributors to the IPCC report whom I interviewed, speaks here only for himself...
...prostitution and deriving support from the earnings of a prostitute” last week, according to Middlesex District Attorney Spokeswoman Meredith Lerner. Purdy is scheduled to return for sentencing for the prostitution charges on March 13. The case was brought to trial before the Superior Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts on February 20, and ended on February 23. Purdy pled not guilty to all charges. According to the Commonwealth’s statement of the case, detectives Louis Cherubino Jr. and James Hyde, in conjunction with the Cambridge Special Investigations Unit, began to investigate the About Hair salon...
...face tough choices and make the right decisions. Look at NBA Commissioner David Stern, implementing a strict, “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Then there’s Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, pushing to legalize polygamy in the commonwealth. Or even our own Dean Gross electing to give Peter “just one more chance.” Brilliant tacticians all of them, Solomon Amendment be damned. We’ll tell you straight off that it takes more than a penis to lead a Fortune 500 company, fight...