Unlawful possession of a firearm (3rd offense)!!
And the usual mismatched ammo.
Brockton man arrested in Dorchester on firearm, drug charges
And the usual mismatched ammo.
Brockton man arrested in Dorchester on firearm, drug charges
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What makes you think they want to stop crime? How do you increase the budget without an increase in crime? It's all about money.It's law enforcement and the prosecutors who don't get the "criminal thing."
There's a classic "Standing Headline" if I ever saw one.Brockton man arrested in Dorchester on firearm, drug charges
Brockton man arrested in Dorchester on firearm, drug charges
wrongAs always firearms charge will be broomed
you realize that means he's been convicted twice not charged twice?3rd offense. What's that tell ya?It tells me that Dorchester court must have some great public defenders or some liberal judges and real good cops that keep bringing suspects back to Dorchester court to get recycled back to the streets to repeat the cycle again.
Sad but SOP.It's always been that way down there.
Many years ago some druggie stole one of our trucks while the driver was inside of a customers store making a delivery, the crime was reported, a couple of hours later one of our distributors comes back to the shop and said he saw the truck in Dorchester at a bar, apparently he was trying to sell them the bread that was in the truck to, you know, make some cash. So the head shipper and I jump in a car and head down and sure enough there the truck is and the perp was just getting back in. I jump in the passenger side (these were step vans with no seat on that side) and push him out onto the sidewalk, he tried to run but I grabbed him and pushed him up to a chain-link fence and told him to not move or I would f*ck him up.
Cops came and took him away.
Fast forward a week or a couple of days, don't remember, and they bring him to court, so I go with one of the owners of the company to watch the circus.
After reading the charges, his court appointed mouthpiece pleads not guilty, then the DA says that the man had a bench warrant for a no-show on another charge. You know what the Judge did? Told him to make sure he got himself down to the other court in a couple of hours.
I don't know but I think he should have gone in the back of a police car with cuffs on, but that's just me.
Even if not broomed, the liberal judges/prosecutors go soft on sentencing.As always firearms charge will be broomed
So how many weeks will he get this time?
Of course. Proven innocent or just released?you realize that means he's been convicted twice not charged twice?
thank you counselor , you may step downyou realize that means he's been convicted twice not charged twice?
He’s a prohibited person in possession and as it’s a third offense he’s probably a prime candidate for federal charges and a nice trip to FPMITA prison.As always firearms charge will be broomed
Neil, this has bugged me for years, but I can only find anecdotal numbers, nothing concrete.From a random but educated search I can see that he did 18 mos mandatory for a gun case in 2007 and then did 5-7 for another one in 2009. Both were plea deals.
I once tried to do a public records request without luck. But anecdotally I can say the mandatory year (now 18 mos) is dispensed very frequently. Almost universally if a person is charged with a gun, they have to fight it to the end or get the mandatory sentence. I've seen some very unfortunate cases among the dozens and dozens I've known that got the time.Neil, this has bugged me for years, but I can only find anecdotal numbers, nothing concrete.
Home many people have been convicted under Bartley-Fox and done the mandatory one year?
Lucky you didn't do that recently... you'd be up in court for damages and loseIt's always been that way down there.
Many years ago some druggie stole one of our trucks while the driver was inside of a customers store making a delivery, the crime was reported, a couple of hours later one of our distributors comes back to the shop and said he saw the truck in Dorchester at a bar, apparently he was trying to sell them the bread that was in the truck to, you know, make some cash. So the head shipper and I jump in a car and head down and sure enough there the truck is and the perp was just getting back in. I jump in the passenger side (these were step vans with no seat on that side) and push him out onto the sidewalk, he tried to run but I grabbed him and pushed him up to a chain-link fence and told him to not move or I would f*ck him up.
Cops came and took him away.
Fast forward a week or a couple of days, don't remember, and they bring him to court, so I go with one of the owners of the company to watch the circus.
After reading the charges, his court appointed mouthpiece pleads not guilty, then the DA says that the man had a bench warrant for a no-show on another charge. You know what the Judge did? Told him to make sure he got himself down to the other court in a couple of hours.
I don't know but I think he should have gone in the back of a police car with cuffs on, but that's just me.
Do the frequent flyers and gang bangers get the mandatory or just the poor shmucks that you referenced above?I once tried to do a public records request without luck. But anecdotally I can say the mandatory year (now 18 mos) is dispensed very frequently. Almost universally if a person is charged with a gun, they have to fight it to the end or get the mandatory sentence. I've seen some very unfortunate cases among the dozens and dozens I've known that got the time.
-a guy in his twenties who took a gun to Massachusetts from his girlfriends house in VT. He was getting beaten up in Cambridge and pulled it out and he did the year.
-a guy from NH who worked at nights on a parking lot sweeper. Cops got called on him for dumping his machine improperly and he told them he had a gun in the cab of the machine. He got the 18 mos.
-a kid who was found sleeping in a junk car in a yard. When the police woke him up they found a gun in the console and he was convicted by a jury and got the year.
None of these were my clients and I have had luck getting DAs to drop the charges when legitimate people get caught with guns in Mass. Probably twenty times but those are really the minority and are typically accidents. If a person intentionally brings a gun into Mass for protection, they will usually be forced to do the time unless they beat the case.
The regulars get hit with it all the time. Starting in 1992 we gave it all the time. I really can not count the number of times I've known of defendants getting the mandatory between 14 years as a prosecutor and 16 years as a private attorney.Do the frequent flyers and gang bangers get the mandatory or just the poor shmucks that you referenced above?
I was a Criminal Justice major at NU from 1976-1980. I remember studying the laws effects and over a 4 year period, we could find less than 12 people that were convicted using the law
You spelled ‘minutes’ wrong.So how many years will he get this time?
What about Article 4, section 1 of the Constitution? Put aside the onerous infringement of permit systems for a minute. How is an LTC from another state not a public act, record or judicial proceeding of another state? Why are drivers licenses reciprocal and a civil right not? I’m not being a wiseass. It’s a legitimate question.I once tried to do a public records request without luck. But anecdotally I can say the mandatory year (now 18 mos) is dispensed very frequently. Almost universally if a person is charged with a gun, they have to fight it to the end or get the mandatory sentence. I've seen some very unfortunate cases among the dozens and dozens I've known that got the time.
-a guy in his twenties who took a gun to Massachusetts from his girlfriends house in VT. He was getting beaten up in Cambridge and pulled it out and he did the year.
-a guy from NH who worked at nights on a parking lot sweeper. Cops got called on him for dumping his machine improperly and he told them he had a gun in the cab of the machine. He got the 18 mos.
-a kid who was found sleeping in a junk car in a yard. When the police woke him up they found a gun in the console and he was convicted by a jury and got the year.
None of these were my clients and I have had luck getting DAs to drop the charges when legitimate people get caught with guns in Mass. Probably twenty times but those are really the minority and are typically accidents. If a person intentionally brings a gun into Mass for protection, they will usually be forced to do the time unless they beat the case.