Twenty-one first-degree murderers set free under stateâs new compassionate release law
Critics want legislation to bar first-degree murderers from being released
By Shelley Murphy and Andrea Estes Globe Staff,Updated March 14, 2021, 5:49 p.m.
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Maureen Regan Moriarty held a photo of her father, John Regan, while sitting in her living room.Erin Clark/Globe Staff
John Stote was serving a mandatory life sentence for the 1995 murder of a Springfield restaurant owner when he was released in January on medical parole. At the time, the 61-year-old was hospitalized with COVID-19 and on a ventilator. The stateâs top correctional official determined it was unlikely he would survive.
Former Milton Academy teacher facing rape charge in Mass. returned to teaching in Maine
By Laura Crimaldi Globe Staff,Updated February 25, 2021, 4:45 p.m.
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Reynold J. Buono leaves Norfolk County Superior Court in January 2019.Lane Turner/Globe Staff/file
A former Milton Academy drama teacher accused of raping a student decades ago in a high-profile case apparently returned briefly to teaching while awaiting trial, volunteering as an instructor for seniors enrolled in a remote program associated with the University of Southern Maine.
Reynold J. Buono, who was extradited to the United States from Thailand in 2018 after Norfolk County prosecutors levied charges that he repeatedly raped a student in the early 1980s, has been free on $50,000 bond while awaiting trial and is required to wear a GPS bracelet while living in Maine.
Teenager, 22-year-old man indicted in connection with killing of 17-year-old Christian Vines in car in Stoughton; 4 arrests total made in the case, DA says
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
Authorities announced Monday that a teenager and man have been indicted in connection with the killing of 17-year-old Christian Vines in his car in Stoughton last year, marking four total arrests made so far in the case.
Vines, a Randolph teen, was killed inside his parked car outside 31 Jones Terrace the afternoon of July 21. Police were sent to the scene around 3 p.m. after fielding 911 calls about gunshots in the area. There, they found the 17-year-old boy mortally wounded in the driver’s seat of a silver Honda sedan, according to Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey’s office.
One man was shot and killed and three others were injured early Sunday morning in South Weymouth, Massachusetts. Chaos unfolded in the parking lot of Mastlight Apartments at Union Point in South Weymouth just before 3 a.m. “Last night I woke up. I heard several rounds of gunshots,” said one resident. “Walked out the back door into the middle of.
On MLK holiday in Boston, renewed calls for defending civil rights
By Jeremy C. Fox and John Hilliard Globe Correspondent and Globe Staff,Updated January 18, 2021, 7:22 p.m.
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Darrell Jones, left, and Sean Ellis, who both served time after being wrongly convicted for murder, stood next to Monica Cannon Grant, founder of Violence In Boston, as they spoke to a crowd who gathered on MLK Day outside of Madison Park Vocational High School.Erin Clark / Globe Staff
Amid a pandemic and a national reckoning on race, the rise of white supremacy and the repercussions from a historic attack on democracy, Martin Luther King Jr.âs life was celebrated Monday as hundreds demonstrated in Boston to demand justice and protection of civil rights.