Jo C. Goode
FALL RIVER The amended Massachusetts police reform bill is expected to be signed by Gov. Charlie Baker as the public demands more law enforcement accountability, improved training and social justice and in Fall River initiatives are already moving ahead.
The measure bans chokeholds, using tear gas on large demonstrations and most no-knock warrants where a child or person over age 65 is home.
It also creates a civilian-led oversight board that will certify officers and can handle misconduct complaints. After objections by Baker, that board will not oversee officer training.
Fall River Police Chief Jeffrey Cardoza outlined a number of new programs he intends to begin implementing for his officers and some trainings that are already in play.
BROCKTON The controversy began with a lawsuit from a disgruntled former employee.
Veteran prosecutor John Bradley sued the Plymouth County district attorney’s office for wrongful termination, alleging his former bosses retaliated against him after he stopped volunteering time and money to District Attorney Timothy Cruz’s reelection campaigns.
The litigation lasted years, generating testimony from former prosecutors and troves of internal documents that offered an unprecedented window into the politics inside the DA’s office, the arm of state government that turns arrests into criminal convictions in Brockton and 26 towns in Plymouth County.
Among the documents entered into the public record were Bradley’s emails thousands of them at the former prosecutor’s own request. And while Bradley won a settlement of $250,000, the emails, which contained scores of inappropriate remarks about defendants he and his colleagues sent to prison, set off a series of unintended
A South Easton woman who caused a fatal car crash last year in New Bedford while on parole for a botched Attleboro bank robbery has been sentenced to prison for manslaughter.
Jennaya Elsa Bennett-Werra, 23, was sentenced to a 14- to 16-year prison term for the fatal March 27, 2019, hit-and-run crash, Bristol County District Attorney Thomas Quinn III said Wednesday.
Bennett-Werra, a transgender woman formerly known as James Bennett-Werra, went through a stop sign in New Bedford and hit another car, according to prosecutors.
The occupants of the other car, Janet Murphy-Hebert, 68, and her 28-year-old son, Kyle Murphy, were rushed to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence.
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