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Duncan Purdy, owner of the Cambridge-based salon and antique store About Hair, was scheduled to be sentenced yesterday at the Middlesex County Courthouse. But the sentencing was postponed for reasons that were not immediately clear. Speaking to The Crimson during a recess yesterday afternoon, Purdy’s attorney J. Daniel Silverman said that he had appeared in court but was told by officials that Purdy was in custody and had not been brought in. Because court statutes state that the defendant must be present for the event, the sentencing could not take place. Purdy was found guilty...
Last week, a merry trio of pranksters from MIT had cause for celebration: Middlesex county prosecutors dropped serious charges against them that would have been punishable by up to 20 years in prison. The crime perpetrated by our more mathematically inclined neighbors along the Charles: an attempted “hack” on MIT’s Faculty Club. This case’s dismissal sets a heartening precedent for college students nationwide...
Duncan W. Purdy, owner of the About Hair salon and antique store near Harvard Square, was “found guilty of maintaining a house of 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...
Pring-Wilson stabbed Colono after the two were involved in an altercation outside a Western Avenue pizza parlor. According to Pring-Wilson’s defense attorneys, the ex-graduate student reacted out of self-defense. Middlesex Superior Court Judge Regina L. Quinlan granted Pring-Wilson a new trial in June of last year after the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled that a victim’s history of violent behavior could be used as evidence in a self-defense case, even when that history is unknown to the defendant. Initially, Quinlan barred defense lawyers from using evidence of Colono?...
...Middlesex District Attorney spokeswoman Melissa Sherman declined to comment yesterday...