Carter

The Suffolk Superior Court jury hearing the murder case against Antwan Carter and Daniel Pinckney for the 2007 gunshot murder of a guy waiting for his mother outside a Roxbury middle school found itself hopelessly deadlocked today. The judge in the case declared a mistrial; a spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney's office said prosecutors would try once more to put the two away for life.

A trial last fall for the two also ended in deadlock and mistrial.

Cedric Steele, a college student and Meals on Wheels volunteer was standing in front of Timilty Middle School on March 14, 2007,waiting for his mom so that they could go buy a cell phone. Prosecutors allege that Carter and Pickney, upset one of their gang friends was shot, went out for revenge that day, intent on gunning somebody down. Steele, prosecutors say, had nothing to do with the beef; the two simply decided to shoot him repeatedly. He died during surgery.

Innocent, etc.

Which might explain why he sent fundraising e-mails to state legislators's government addresses, which is, oh, what's the word? Oh, right, illegal.

Just a database mistake, Treasurer Tim's PR person says.

The latest stats from Boston Police show that while reported crime in general is down across the city for the first three months of the year, rapes and attempted rapes have jumped from 2 to 9 in District E-13 (Jamaica Plain) and from 2 to 8 in District A-1 (Downtown, Beacon Hill, the North End and Chinatown).

Citywide numbers also show an increase in the number of murders, from 9 to 12 - due to three more murders in districts B-3 and C-11 (Dorchester and Mattapan).

The Globe has an interesting look at the holiest of holies at the J. Edgar Hoover building - the secret room where really, really secret files are stored. The Globe relied on hundreds of pages of memos, but, naturally, doesn't seem to think you might be interested in looking at those memos yourself. Thankfully, Bob Ambrogi points us to a copy of them all (17M PDF file).