Lawyer of the Year
BC Law’s Sharon Beckman recognized by Mass. Lawyers Weekly for her work with the Boston College Innocence Program
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Boston College Law School Associate Clinical Professor Sharon L. Beckman, faculty director of the Boston College Innocence Program, is among
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly’s 17 “Lawyers of the Year,” an annual distinction bestowed by the statewide law publication upon a select group of the Commonwealth’s attorneys for significant accomplishments during the previous year.
She was co-honored along with co-counsel John J. Barter for the September 2020 exoneration of their client Frances Choy, whose arson and first-degree murder convictions were vacated based on new evidence of her innocence, including substantiation that someone else confessed to the crime, and scientific proof that contradicted trial testimony of a state police chemist.
Middleboro Man Indicted on Charges That He Murdered His Parents
BROCKTON A Middleboro man has been indicted on charges that he killed both of his parents, Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz has announced.
On Friday, February 26, a Plymouth County grand jury indicted Ryan True, 21, of Middleboro on two counts of murder.
At approximately 6:30 a.m. on December 10, 2020, Middleboro Police responded to a home at 3 Highland Street to conduct a well-being check after separate co-workers of both a male resident and a female resident of the home reported they had not shown up for work.
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Body Recovered from Icy Water in Wareham
UPDATE:
The Plymouth County District Attorney s Office has identified the victim as Thomas Barthlomew, 44, of Wareham. No foul play is suspected and the medical examiner will determine the exact cause of death.
WAREHAM The body of the male who was the subject of a rescue attempt at a Wareham bog reservoir on Sunday has been recovered.
According to authorities, the body of the male was recovered by members of the Wareham Fire Department and the Plymouth County Technical Rescue Dive Team at about 12:30 p.m. this afternoon.
“Obvious, this was not the outcome we were looking for,” Wareham Police Chief John Walcek said. “But we did recover the body of a male that had jumped into the water.”