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"An Agency where Patronage is Job One - A Boston Globe Spotlight Team"
The Spotlight Team looked into rumors that the Massachusetts Probation Department was a "political patronage machine." The team revealed that at least 250 employees had political or personal connections to "state legislators or judges," including the commissioner.
Tags: John J. O'Brien; Massachusetts Probation Department; probation; Thomas M. Petrolati; West Roxbury; Thomas M. Finneran
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Freedom for Shawn
"Shawn Drumgold had served 14 years of a life sentence for murder when Boston Globe reporter Dick Lehr took up his case. Today, Drumgold is a free man." Shawn Drumgold, a low-level drug dealer, had been convicted of murder for the 1988 shooting death of a 12-year-old girl named Darlene Tiffany Moore - a bystander to a "street gang revenge killing." Although Drumgold was not a member of a gang, he became the focus of the investigation, was charged within weeks with the murder, and subsequently convicted. Over a decade later, Lehr began his own investigation, and uncovered "major new evidence that case doubt on the conviction, and raised the strong possibility of police and prosecutorial misconduct." The articles published in the Globe pointed to questionable witnesses, dubious deals, the works. In the aftermath of Lehr's investigation, the district attorney asked the court to overturn Drumgold's murder conviction.
Tags: justice; court; conviction; wrongful; witness; innocent; prison; misconduct; corruption; reversal; lawyer; law; Roxbury; FOI; FOIA; prosecution; defense; attorney; drugs
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Grass-roots justice
A profile of Roxbury District Court Judge Gregory L. Philips frames this story about the turn-around of a judicial court. When Philips was appointed, Roxbury District Court was operating with a tarnished image. Philips moved to fix that image, and make one of the most smooth-running courts in the state.
Tags: Justice; Judges; Municipal courts; Gregory Philips