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...McHugh has expressed concern about the DA’s and HUPD’s relationship with the press before. McHugh unsuccessfully requested at a July 19 hearing that a gag order be placed on prosecutors and police in the case, and a DA spokeswoman has since said that the DA has entered into a signed agreement with McHugh stating that the prosecutors will not proactively encourage media coverage of the case...
...judge in the assault case of suspended football captain Matthew C. Thomas ’06–’07 has rejected a request from Thomas’ lawyer to place a gag order on the Middlesex District Attorneys Office, according to DA spokeswoman Melissa Sherman. Pointing to coverage of Thomas’ arrest in news outlets including The Boston Globe, The Associated Press, and The Crimson, Thomas’ lawyer, Michael J. McHugh ’73, requested the gag order during a pre-trial hearing on July 19, 2006. The judge in the case, George...
...based his treatment decision on the limited responses of a patient who rarely spoke. "I had not seen any evidence of psychosis," he testified, referring to medical files, "and I have a notation that she had denied hallucinations and delusions." (Saeed has declined comment to the press, citing a gag order.) Saeed said she never opened up to him about her inner torment. At the hospital, she watched videos about drug addiction, which Devereux officials say offer therapeutic advantages, such as coping skills...
...would ask that the DA’s office be ordered not to comment,” he said, adding that he wanted the gag order to apply to HUPD as well...
Sprague expressed concern at the hearing about “potential first amendment [issues]” if the gag order was put in place...