Word: middlesex
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Debate over the media’s treatment of high-profile trials came to the fore at Harvard Law School yesterday, as Michael Jackson’s defense attorney, Thomas Mesereau Jr. ’73, MSNBC anchor and correspondent Dan Abrams, and Middlesex County District Attorney Martha Coakley all participated in a panel on race and the Jackson trial. Mesereau, who was named one of Barbara Walters’ “10 Most Fascinating People of 2005,” served previously as the defense attorney for actor Robert Blake and accepted the Jackson case after its first...
...year-old convicted rapist arrested for trespassing in Mather House last month was sentenced to two years in a local house of corrections after he essentially pled guilty to all charges against him in Middlesex District Court on Thursday. Ronald R. Vick, of Brighton, Mass., was arrested on the third floor of the Mather lowrise on Saturday, Oct. 15, after several Mather residents alerted the police of a suspicious individual wandering around the House. Police charged him with trespassing, breaking and entering in the daytime with the intent to commit theft, and failing to register as a sex offender...
...than collectively, enjoy police powers—the authority to stop, question, detain, formally arrest, use force, and interrogate suspects—not because University Hall wills it to be so, but because they are recognized police under the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and its officers are deputized by the Middlesex and Suffolk County sheriffs and the colonel of the state police. If HUPD seeks this extra power—which few other campus police offficers enjoy—it is only fair that they accept the reporting responsibilities when they swear allegiance to uphold the Constitution of the Commonwealth...
...anal.” An officer from the Somerville Police Department received similar treatment when he went undercover to the salon. If convicted, Purdy’s four charges carry a maximum sentence of five years each. At Thursday’s hearing on two of the charges, a Middlesex assistant district attorney (DA) requested that the case be heard in front of a grand jury to determine if it will remain in the Cambridge District Court or if it will move to the Middlesex Superior Court. The DA requested a move to superior court because the district court only...
...Crimson’s suit was previously dismissed by Middlesex Superior Court Justice Nancy Staffier on March 17, 2004 on similar grounds, asserting that it is a legislative issue...