Jim Marzilli

Court rejects request to keep Jim Marzilli away from every woman in the state

adamg — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:38:04 -0400

The Massachusetts Appeals Court today rejected a lawsuit by three women who said they were groped by the disgraced ex-state Senator that would have forced him to keep his distance from all women in Massachusetts.

The court ruled that the provision of the state civil-rights law that was also used to limit anti-abortion protesters near abortion clinics can only be enforced by the state's attorney general and that the three women could ask for no more than an injunction to keep Marzilli away from them, not every woman in the state. And even then, the court ruled, there is no proof Marzilli has attempted to assault or harass them since his arrest in 2008, so there is no longer a reason for an injunction.

The women could appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court.

Complete decision.

The perfect T-shirt for St. Patrick's Day

adamg — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:44:26 -0500

Be the hit of the roast with Paul McMorrow and Lissa Harris's evil creation:

Of course, it helps to remember that state Rep. Marty Walsh of Dorchester is who grabby ex-Senator Jim Marzilli first identified himself as when he found a little bit too much to like about Lowell.

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Jim Marzilli? Could you please just go away?

adamg — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 11:35:03 -0500

You're really embarrassing yourself and getting the rest of us annoyed.

Marzilli quits; Wikerson calls for more trash bags for her office

adamg — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:43:43 -0500

PolitickerMA has the scoop on Marzilli's post-Germany resignation today. No word on how close Dianne Wilkerson is to cleaning out her office.

Allegedly gropey senator charged with that original groping

adamg — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:34:09 -0400

Remember that groping case the Middlesex County DA's office wouldn't bring against Jim Marzilli for lack of evidence before he got charged with finding just a bit too much to like about Lowell? He's now been charged after all.

Allegedly grabby state senator charged with assaulting four women in Lowell

adamg — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:29:40 -0400

A Middlesex County grand jury today indicted Arlington state Sen. James Marzilli on charges he went after four women in Lowell on June 3, the Middlesex County DA's office says.

Marzilli is formally charged with "annoying and accosting" three women and indecent assault and battery, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and annoying and accosting a person of the opposite sex in connection with a fourth woman.

Prosecutors allege he complimented one woman on her butt, asked another if she were wearing underwear and started coming at the third. In an attempt to get him away, prosecutors say, the first woman yelled "Listen, take $20, go up to Merrimack Street after 5 p.m. and get yourself a hooker" at him. Prosecutors claim he then sat on a bench next to the fourth woman and attempted to "grab her in a sexual manner," at which point she screamed and fled into a nearby building, outside of which Marzilli then allegedly began waiting for her. When police arrived, he attempted to flee, prosecutors say.

More details from the DA's office.

Jim Marzilli and bipolar disorder

adamg — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:25:05 -0400

The Herald reports that's what the alleged woman-chasing state senator's being treated for at McLean. Dan Kennedy wonders why Marzilli's lawyer still has a compulsion to attack people.

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That Howie is such a kidder

adamg — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:58:23 -0400

As Dan Kennedy notes, Howie Carr's column on Jim Marzilli today is your basic called-in faux-outrage piece about a pol in trouble. But read down to the last two sentences - man, Howie loves working at 'RKO.

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Marzilli won't seek re-election

adamg — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 14:13:02 -0400

Doesn't say anything about resigning immediately, however.

Cleared of attacking one woman, state senator arrested on charges of attacking another

adamg — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 19:32:25 -0400

Jim Marzilli of Arlington was arrested today in Lowell, charged with attempted indecent assault and battery on a woman on a downtown street - in broad daylight.

Earlier:
No charges against Arlington state senator.