Sixty-three minutes in Judge Sullivan's courtroom, word for word: "There was no investigation." "A laughable argument." "I am so tired of hearing persecution." "Now no one wants to pick a trial date."
"I filed one motion and said nothing," Reddington told the judge. The judge's reply: "We're talking about this motion." The motion was the Globe's bid to open the sidebars, and it may matter more than the outburst.
If there is a second Clancy trial, it probably will not start before summer 2027. The judge said he did not want the case kicked down the road. The speedy-trial rule will not force it either way.
She came back to court for the first time since the mistrial and left without an answer. The motion that could end the case is under advisement. Everything else is November 2.
The case turns on one question: did she tell her providers she had thoughts of harming the children? They testified she did not. Patrick's lawyers say she will testify that she did.
The inspection reports said the Red Line track was checked. Prosecutors say the inspectors were in a break room, or fixing their own cars in an MBTA garage, or asleep in their vehicles on overtime.
Prosecutors say he rear-ended a car, panicked, and hit 103 mph in a 25 zone before crossing the median. Massachusetts has no fetal homicide statute. It has two SJC decisions instead.
The Boston Marathon bomber was tried in Boston. That is the precedent Farwell's venue motion has to get around, and the judge denied his first one in January.
After a weekend of Reddington calling the holdout juror "the obstructionist," prosecutors asked the judge to make the lawyers stop talking. Lawyers can be gagged in ways reporters cannot.
One of the three motions could end the case by lunchtime, and the DA probably could not appeal it. Even then, Clancy would leave for a psychiatric hospital, not home. Here is how each outcome plays out.
