Shelley Murphy

Legal observers say President-elect Donald Trump is likely to tap a current or former federal prosecutor with deep ties to the Republican Party as the next US attorney for Massachusetts.

US District Judge George A. O’Toole Jr. spoke about Tsarnaev’s case on a 2023 podcast and during panel discussions about jury trials in 2016 and 2017 at a law school and court-sponsored event.

Surveillance video turned over to Charles Murrell’s lawyers by Boston police showed Murrell being shoved into a light pole by Patriot Front members.

The hefty sentence is largely symbolic, as Geas is currently serving a life sentence for his role in the 2003 murders of Springfield mob boss Adolfo “Big Al” Bruno and an associate.

Shayne Stilphen was placed alone in a cell at the District 4 police station in the South End, where he pulled out a small bag of fentanyl he had hidden inside his shorts.

A Boston attorney is spearheading a legal battle challenging a new federal regulation that will ban all dogs from entering the United States before they are 6 months old.

“He’s just a complete fraud,” a former Winter Hill Gang member said of Sean Scott Hicks.

One of three inmates accused of plotting the murder of James “Whitey” Bulger in prison was released Monday after prosecutors dropped the most serious charge against him.

Stavros “Steve” Papantoniadis was convicted following a two-week trial on three counts of forced labor and three counts of attempted forced labor.

Last year, Rollins resigned on the heels of two government watchdog investigations that found she repeatedly committed ethical violations and misused the power of her office.

Federal prosecutors said Monday that they reached an agreement with Fotios Geas, Paul DeCologero, and Sean McKinnon, and the three would plead guilty to murder charges.

Lori Jane Kearsey’s husband said he thought she left him; her family believed she joined the federal witness protection program; and others thought she moved to Florida, according to police and several people who were close to Kearsey.

Federal prosecutors will not challenge an appeals court ruling in the case against Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, requiring a hearing into defense claims of juror bias at his death penalty trial.

In January, a day before former Holyoke city councilor Wilmer Puello-Mota was expected to plead guilty to child pornography, his lawyer was startled to learn Puello-Mota was in Russia.

The federal investigation into the state’s case is likely to have an impact on her upcoming trial, according to several prominent criminal defense attorneys and former federal prosecutors.

The settlement comes after a judge said he was “seriously considering” holding the city liable without a trial because its legal department failed to turn over evidence to lawyers representing Coleman’s mother.

The US First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston wrote that if the district court finds that the jurors were biased, then the Marathon bomber is entitled to a new trial on whether he should be sentenced to death or life in prison. He currently sits on death row.

Ngan Dinh paid a portion of the bribes to an RMV examiner who was supposed to administer the driving tests, but scored the drivers as if they had passed even though they didn’t, prosecutors said.

The plea agreement calls for a prison sentence between 11 and nearly 17 years. Prosecutors plan to seek the high end of the range, according to the agreement.

The judge in the case was asked to schedule a change-of-plea hearing for Monday in the case. Jack Teixeira initially pleaded not guilty in federal court to leaking classified material.