{"id":312,"date":"2011-10-30T11:16:17","date_gmt":"2011-10-30T11:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/2011\/10\/boston-globe-story-claims-juri.html"},"modified":"2011-10-30T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2011-10-30T11:16:17","slug":"boston-globe-story-claims-juri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/boston-globe-story-claims-juri\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe&#8217;s unfair attack on Massachusetts judges in drunk driving cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts judges were unfairly attacked as being lenient on drunk driving charges in a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/local\/massachusetts\/articles\/2011\/10\/30\/for_drunk_drivers_a_habit_of_judicial_leniency\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Globe report released today<\/a>.  The special report was the first of a three part series written by Marcella Bombardieri, Jonathan Saltzman and Thomas Farragher.    <\/p>\n<p>The Boston Globe claims that judges are lenient on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/\">Massachusetts OUI<\/a> cases during bench trials.  The article states that the Boston Globe looked through court records, listened to tapes of courtroom proceedings in order to make its assessment.  While the Globe claims to have uncovered a widespread problem, as a Massachusetts OUI lawyer, I believe that the report presents an unfair attack on Massachusetts judges.    <\/p>\n<p>To obtain case names the Globe would have had to rely on prosecutors pointing out cases that they believe they should have never lost before a particular judge.  Overlooked in this fact, is that often the police report does not tell the entire story of what happened during an arrest.  Police officers do not always remember exactly what happened when writing the report and sometimes exaggerate, overstate and embellish in the police report.  Further, judges are not reading the police report but are hearing the officer testify live and under oath.   <\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/boston-globe-story-claims-juri\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Boston Globe&#8217;s unfair attack on Massachusetts judges in drunk driving cases\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Massachusetts judges were unfairly attacked as being lenient on drunk driving charges in a recent Boston Globe report released today. The special report was the first of a three part series written by Marcella Bombardieri, Jonathan Saltzman and Thomas Farragher. The Boston Globe claims that judges are lenient on Massachusetts OUI cases during bench trials. 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