Jim Marzilli

Marzilli gets three months behind bars for going after women in Lowell

adamg — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 18:59:07 +0000

The Globe reports on the sentencing of former Arlington state Sen. Jim Marzilli.

Court: Ex-Senator has to stand trial on charges he tried to paw women

adamg — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:59:51 +0000

The Supreme Judicial Court today rejected an argument by former Arlington state Sen. James Marzili that he should be free to go on charges he tried to grope several women in Lowell in 2008.

Marzili, whose lawyers have asserted mental illness as a defense, had sought to have charges against him thrown out based on a ruling in another case in which a man was freed because a judge changed the charge against him from "indecent assault and battery" to just "indecent assault," a crime that is not defined in state law. In that case, the judge determined an alleged perv had not actually physically touched the girl he was charged with committing the crime against, so there was no "battery" to charge him with.

The state's highest court, however, noted that Marzili was formally charged with attempted indecent assault and battery, which is a crime in Massachusetts, and that prosecutors had made a strong enough case to warrant going to trial:

With respect to the element of an "overt act" toward the commission of the crime, no one appears to dispute that the Commonwealth, at least as a matter of theory, can meet its burden; the indictment against the defendant alleges such an overt act in some detail. Nor is there disagreement that the substantive crime of indecent assault and battery was not accomplished.

Complete ruling.

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

adamg — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 14:38:04 +0000

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 22:44:26 +0000

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.

Jim Marzilli? Could you please just go away?

adamg — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:35:03 +0000

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 22:43:43 +0000

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 23:34:09 +0000

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 21:29:40 +0000

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 13:25:05 +0000

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.

That Howie is such a kidder

adamg — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:58:23 +0000

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.

Marzilli won't seek re-election

adamg — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 18:13:02 +0000

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 23:32:25 +0000

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.

No charges against Arlington state senator

adamg — Tue, 13 May 2008 22:44:29 +0000

UPDATE: Charged with attacking another woman in broad daylight.

Insufficient evidence to prove he pawed a woman.

Arlington senator accused of sexual assault

adamg — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 15:23:11 +0000

Jim Marzilli, a woman, Sunday morning.