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...most gruesome murders, but that year he also sought it for Leonard Saldana, who had killed his ex-girlfriend. Death-penalty prosecutions in domestic-violence cases are rare, and rarely successful. Jurors can often be convinced that killing one's lover in a rage doesn't warrant execution. (Saldana got a life sentence. Earle later said he sought the death penalty partly because he wanted to send a message that he took domestic violence as seriously as any other crime...
...There seems to be a tremendous effort to get a conviction, even though the evidence does not warrant that sort of drive on the part of the government,” he says. “The corruption goes very high...
Visiting Rocco's is less like entering a restaurant than like crossing the border into a pleasurable but intrusive security state. In a red tent on the sidewalk, a well-dressed young woman asks you to sign a release--five pages of teensy-print legalese ("I warrant and represent that I am not currently a candidate for public office ..."). Inside, the surveillance is near total: in addition to five camera crews weaving around the wait staff, there are cameras on the ceiling, over the bar and behind two-way mirrors. Producers assure me there are none in the bathrooms...
...Officers arrested Zou Zengyuan, 29, of East Boston, on an outstanding warrant at Mahoney’s Garden Center on Memorial Drive...
...HUPD officer arrested 39-year-old Scot D. Marshall-Pryde of Cambridge on an active warrant at Conant Hall...