John ConnollyS

Sure, the disgraced FBI agent and Whitey BFF got sentenced to 40 years on a second-degree murder charge for the 1982 Bulger-ordered execution of a guy in Miami. But J.M. Lawrence reports that media accounts failed to note Connolly could very well get off on the charge because Florida law has a statute of limitations on second-degree murder:

... News coverage of this case has yet to reveal what prosecutors said about the judge's second-degree murder instruction. Are there so many murders in Miami-Dade that the DA's office had no clue about a quirky statute of limitations in a 25-year-old case? And how many shades of angry red did Massachusetts Assistant U.S. Attorneys turn when they discovered this strange nasty hole ripping their net? ...