Suffolk County District Attorney Rachael Rollins has asked a Supreme Judicial Court justice to make a Boston Municipal Court judge accept her office's decision not to prosecute several people arrested during and after Saturday's march of the bigots.
Yesterday, Judge Richard Sinnott refused to accept prosecutors' filings to drop charges against protesters who were charged with only disorderly conduct and, in some cases, resisting arrest. Prosecutors said they would prosecute protesters charged with assault and battery on police officers, possession of a dangerous weapon and starting fights.
In a statement, Rollins said Sinnott compounded what she called a legal error - judges cannot tell prosecutors who to prosecute under the state constituion, she says - by ordering a defense attorney thrown in the court lockup for several hours for protesting Sinnott's refusal to recognize the prosecution requests, known as a nolle prosequi filing.
The actions of Judge Richard Sinnott are unprecedented and outrageous. His insistence on arraigning individuals when my office has used its discretion to decline a case is an unconstitutional abuse of his power and serves neither the interests of justice nor public safety. The power to pursue prosecution falls exclusively on the executive branch, not the judiciary. The judge overstepped his authority here, and only an action of our state's highest court can correct this injustice. My petition is a call for order to be returned to our courts, to ensure the fair administration of justice, and to restore the public's trust in the integrity of our legal system. The people of Suffolk County elected me to do exactly what I am doing.
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No it is called reliability
By Pete Nice
Fri, 09/06/2019 - 9:27am
If Josh Abrams said he was arrested for calling an officer a pig, his reliability as a witness/victim/suspect/defendant is questionable is all I'm saying.
Thank you for embodying the pitiful right-wingers'
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 09/05/2019 - 12:51pm
gift for projecting their own sins onto everyone else. Nobody, but nobody plays the victim better than the aggrieved old conservative white male.
Exhibit A: our ludicrous, Sharpie-wielding President, who rather than admitting a simple mistake ("Dorian will hit Alabama") goes to the most hilarious lengths to prove his completely bogus claim, then whimpers "Fake News is out to get me!" when the whole world points and laughs at what a pathetic, incompetent liar he is.
President "The F's on My Report Card Are Actually A's": your hero! Keep up the fine sad-sack work of emulating him.
you do a pretty impressive
By berkleealum
Thu, 09/05/2019 - 12:23pm
you do a pretty impressive job of ignoring the multiple posts that disprove the narrative you’re putting forth.
did i say impressive? i meant insufferable.
Im going to just leave this here
By anon
Thu, 09/05/2019 - 12:05pm
You hypocrites. Enjoy you own past moronic and contradictory statements.
https://www.universalhub.com/2019/feds-indict-newt...
https://www.universalhub.com/2019/newton-judge-sus...
Paging Daan.....
superficial
By berkleealum
Thu, 09/05/2019 - 1:22pm
Where’s the hypocrisy? Sure, the two are similar in that each judge took the law into her/his own hands.
Beyond that, I don’t really see any similarities. One was an act of civil disobedience, the other an act of bowing to authority.
One judge was punished for her actions, the other likely won’t be.
Free Speech
By Benson
Thu, 09/05/2019 - 1:49pm
It's kinda rich that Mahty allowed these creeps to parade through Boston spewing hate under the "free speech" umbrella while the counterprotesters (who everyone knew would be numerous and vocal, given Boston's progressive culture) aren't being afforded the same privilege. Mahty ok'd this, Mahty knew the likely outcome of this moronic and costly stunt and Mahty let it happen anyway. Mahty needs to go.
I'm no friend of Mahty
By Residente
Thu, 09/05/2019 - 3:15pm
But even Mahty has to follow the constitution. Not a lot he can do to stop this march.
Fair enough
By Benson
Thu, 09/05/2019 - 3:27pm
And I agree. But I'm wondering, if the event was such a security threat that the city had to deploy the entire BPD couldn't security/cost concerns have been cited as adequate reasons to deny the permit in the first place? I have no idea what Boston's permitting criteria for public demonstrations is, but you'd think such a decision would be easy to justify after the nazi invasion of Charlottesville.
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