“Nobody’s Perfect: the need for new expungement law,” written by Massachusetts criminal defense attorney, Patrick. J. Noonan, was published in the Lawyers Journal (Vol. 22, No.: 10, June 2015), which examines the difference between sealing a criminal record and expunging a criminal record in Massachusetts. Read on Mass. Bar Association Website || More Publications by Patrick J. Noonan Nobody’s…

By Shira Schoenberg August 4, 2015 Note: This article was originally published on MassLive.com. BOSTON – On Aug. 21, 2014, an auditor who was trained in monitoring prisons to ensure that they complied with anti-sexual assault policies conducted an audit of a Boston juvenile detention facility. Auditor Kurt Pfisterer interviewed four boys in the facility,…

By Shira Schoenberg July 22, 2015 Note: This article was originally published on Masslive.com. BOSTON — In ritualized physical abuse that the staff referred to as “orange chicken,” prosecutors say staff members at a state-run facility for adolescent boys would pull down the pants of residents and hit them on their naked backsides with an…

By Phyllis J. Silva Enterprise Staff Wrtier (1993) BROCKTON – Jury deliberations were scheduled to begin today in Brockton Superior Court in the trial of three men accused of shooting a city man outside a Cour Street market two years ago. On trial are Dieudel Charles 20, of Dorchester, Monsalvey Charles Charles, 23, and Frantzy…

By Benjamin Paulin May 17, 2015 Note: This article was originally published on PatriotLedger.com. WAREHAM – Last week, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz’s office announced they had charged an alleged drug dealer in the heroin overdose death of a 25-year-old Wareham woman. It was the first time that prosecutors in Plymouth County have aimed…

By Benjamin Paulin April 17, 2015 Note: This article was originally published on EnterpriseNews.com. BROCKTON – An East Bridgewater man was acquitted of rape charges by a jury in Brockton Superior Court earlier this week. Bryan Souza, 26, was found not guilty on Wednesday of rape and indecent assault and battery. In January 2011, a…

By Benjamin Paoulin March 18, 2015 Note: This article was originally published on EnterpriseNews.com. BROCKTON – Stephanie Deeley still has the last voicemail her sister Kimberly Parker left on her cell phone from the day she died in 2013. The message is Parker thanking Deeley for organizing a family event the night before. Every so…

By Benjamin Paulin October 22, 2014 Note: This article was originally published on EnterpriseNews.com BROCKTON – A jury was unable to come to a verdict Wednesday in a Brockton murder trial where a man is accused of killing a witness in 2010 who was going to testify in another murder trial. Joao Fernandes is facing…

By Benjamin Paulin July 29, 2014 Note: This article was originally published on PatriotLedger.com. BROCKTON – The state trooper accused of killing a mother and daughter in a 2013 car crash has yet to spend a day in jail, or pay any bail in the case. On Monday, a judge granted suspended trooper John Basler…

By Phyllis J. Silva Enterprise Staff Writer (1993) BROCKTON – Brockton Superior Court jurors on Tuesday heard a graphic account of the shooting of a 23-year-old city man two years ago. Three men are being tried under the theory of joint venture in conjunction with the shooting of Jean Jusme outside the Court Street Market…