The Tab has the results from today's special election for Jarrett Barrios's old senate seat.

In cased you missed it, local blogger Ed Prisby is on the front page of the Globe today, in a cautionary tale about how your posts can come back to haunt you (in his case, in a court hearing on whether a Cambridge city councilor and then candidate for state Senate was drunk during a Boston car accident; a court clerk ruled he was not).

Prisby blogs about the article:

... If you must blog, if you have something you want to say, choose your words. Think about what you're saying. And, if you're a lawyer, advise your clients not to blog. If they must, they definitely should blog about anything even remotely close to the same universe as what they're there to see you about.

Tomorrow: football picks.

Carpundit, like Prisby a member of the bar, considers the issue:

... It helps to think before you write. Oh, and it helps to be anonymous.

What if you're a victim in a car accident caused by a politician? And you blog about the accident and the aftermath? Could your blog posts be used in an attempt to discredit your testimony in any court hearings on the accident?

Edward Prisby reports on what happened when his blog posts came up during a hearing on whether to bring drunk-driving charges against Cambridge City Councilor Anthony Galluccio (no charges were brought) - and why that made him stop blogging for awhile:

... I hadn't been very careful about what I was writing, and I consider myself a pretty careful person. That revelation was genuinely frightening. ...

Cambridge City Councilor Anthony Galluccio dropped out of the race to replace Middlesex, Suffolk and Essex state Senator Jarrett Barrios - who decided to replace himself after dropping out of the race for Middlesex DA.

Neil McCabe has the details.

Over at the Alewife, Neil McCabe reports he took down a post about how Channel 5 found out about the Anthony Galluccio car crash. The post in question was about how a Channel 5 staffer did or did not express surprise that Galluccio would be staying in the state-senate race even though incumbent Jarrett Barrios had decided after all to try to keep his seat. Referring to WCVB program director Elizabeth Chang, he writes:

... Because Chang threatened me with legal action if I did not take the posting down, I took it down out of fear. She raised her voice and I have no legal budget. ...

He has more details, natch.

Blue Mass. Group has a poll.

Blue Mass. Group has the scoop on a Boston clerk magistrate finding no probably cause to send Galluccio's case to a jury - along with comments from Ed Prisby, a Boston lawyer involved in that four-car accident with the Cambridge city councilor back in December. Prisby testified at the hearing today and is not happy:

...[W]hat I find astounding is that the clerk magistrate made actual FINDINGS OF FACT (reserved exclusively for a jury) when he ruled in Galluccio's favor, stating that he believed that Galluccio had consumed some alcohol that night, but not enough to impair him.

That is, quite frankly, unbelievable and completely inappropriate. Our system is designed to prevent one man from making a determination behind closed doors as to guilt or innocence. ...

So look for Galluccio to continue his bid for a state senate seat despite incumbent Jarrett Barrios running again.

This just in! Two of the people who were involved in that December car accident with Cambridge city councilor and would-be state senator Anthony Galluccio did not contact Channel 5 reporter Janet Wu to tip her off about the accident. Repeat, they did not call Wu first.

I know, let the full implications of that sink in for a moment. Besides, as the Alewife, which breathlessly reports this fact, adds: Developing...

Seems the Alewife has decided how Wu got the story is more important than the fact that a prominent city official may face drunk-driving charges (Galluccio's hearing is April 28). Give writer Neil McCabe credit, of a sort, for calling Wu up (so she could then decline to say how she got the story).

So Jarrett Barrios will run for re-election instead of for Middlesex DA. Some calculation: Run against an actual prosecutor who has the endorsement (more or less) of the current DA or run against some guy who's suddenly facing possible drunk-driving charges? What does Mr. Galluccio say? Neither of the morning papers showed any indication of trying to talk to him.

Ed. note: In this post, I questioned whether Boston police, EMTs and residents involved in the Galluccio accident could be politically motivated in not reporting the incident earlier because that would require them to care about a Cambridge state-senate candidate. This is because I am an idiot. As Harry Mattison notes, Barrios's district actually includes 15,000 Allston and Brighton residents. I still doubt anybody standing on that downtown street in December had ever heard of Galluccio, but still ...

Blue Mass. Group posts a copy of Anthony Galluccio's report on the multi-car crash he allegedly caused in downtown Boston in December. Not all that exciting, except he forgot to sign it.