A car was left on its side after crashing off Interstate 495 in Bellingham, Massachusetts, on Friday.
It wasn’t immediately clear what led to the rollover crash or if anyone was hurt.
The car was on its passenger’s side at the wood…
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Burger King employees break up knife fight at Dorchester restaurant
Burger King employees intervened to stop a knife fight at a restaurant in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood Thursday.
Pedro Carbuccia, 50, of Mattapan, faces charges of assault with a dangerous weapon after the incident.
According to Bosto…
Police seek suspects in Boston St. Patrick’s Day Parade assault
Police say they are looking for four suspects believed to have been involved in an assault during last Sunday’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade in South Boston.
Boston police released photos of three of the suspects on Friday. A fourth suspect was not pictured. They said the assault occurred around 4 p.m. Sunday in the area of East 2nd and M streets.
No further details about the incident were released, but police did confirm that the suspects are the same ones seen in a disturbing video of a fight at Medal of Honor Park that circulated on social media in the days after the St. Patrick’s Day Parade.
NBC10 Boston obtained video of the fight, which showed at least three people assaulting a man, who then tumbles down an embankment, gets kicked and smashes into a fence, before having things thrown at him.
The violence, drinking and destruction of public property associated with Sunday’s parade has led City Councilor Ed Flynn to suggest moving the iconic parade out of South Boston.
“Over the last several years, it’s turned into a place for people to come to party for three days,” Flynn said this week. “It’s a Mardi Gras atmosphere.”
Anyone with information about the four suspects is asked to call Boston police detectives at 617-343-4742. Anonymous tips can be left by calling the CrimeStoppers Tip Line at 1-800-494-TIPS or by texting the word “TIP” to 27463.
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Former Northeastern University admissions counselor pleads guilty to child porn charges
A former Northeastern University admissions counselor pleaded guilty to child pornography charges, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
Beau Christopher Benson, of Boston’s Dorchester neighborhood, pleaded guilty to receiving child sexual …
I-93 crash ties up traffic at I-95 interchange in Woburn
A car crash has been snarling traffic on Interstate 93 in Woburn, Massachusetts.
First responders blocked traffic at the exchange with Interstate 95. Cars were getting around the blockage using the media.
It wasn’t immediately clear how s…
Review of 2 jurors in Boston Marathon bomber case ordered. Could it lead to a new trial?
Possible juror bias is at the center of a federal appeals court ruling that remands Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s case back to U.S. District Court for further examination.
The First Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with Tsarnaev’s attorneys in a 2-1 decision that two of the 12 deliberating jurors involved in sentencing Tsarnaev to death may have lied about social media posts during the jury selection process.
“I don’t think they’re likely to come to a different conclusion than they did previously,” NBC10 Boston legal analyst Michael Coyne said.
Coyne said it’s exceedingly unlikely another judge would overrule the judge who presided over the trial in 2015 – Judge George O’Toole.
“I think the judge did as exhaustive of a job as you could,” Coyne said. “The jury pool was huge. The lawyers and judge had ample questions for the jurors.”
During that jury selection process, one juror allegedly said none of his Facebook friends had commented on the trial.
However, defense attorneys found that one friend had allegedly told him to “play the part” so he could get on the jury and send Tsarnaev “to jail where he will be taken care of.”
Another juror who would become the foreperson allegedly said she had not commented on the case, but the defense team found she had tweeted and retweeted about the bombings 22 times – including one tweet calling Tsarnaev a “piece of garbage.”
Coyne said since all of the jurors selected said they could set aside their knowledge of the case and be fair and unbiased, these social media comments likely wouldn’t rise to the level of disqualifying them.
“That’s a heavy hurdle for him to be able to meet,” Coyne said. “The fact is we don’t expect jurors to come in with no information, or no preconceived ideas about cases.”
The most important thing to note is this does not automatically grant Tsarnaev a new trial, nor does it vacate his death sentence.
Coyne said even in the unlikely event that the judge vacated the death sentence, the government would almost certainly appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court again to try to get it reinstated, before it would ever go back to trial.
