Child Abuse Unit Prosecutor The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office seeks experienced Superior Court prosecutor for the Child Abuse Unit.
The Berkshire District Attorney’s Office seeks experienced Superior Court prosecutor for the Child Abuse Unit. The CAU is a team of prosecutors, victim witness advocates and forensic interviewers that are charged with the investigation and prosecution of cases involving physical and sexual assault of children, criminal neglect, internet crimes against children and the commercial sexual exploitation of children.
MISSION OF THE BERKSHIRE DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
The Berkshire District Attorney s Office is charged with the mission of prosecuting criminal offenses in Berkshire County in a fair and efficient manner. The Office is required to provide staffing, equipment, and services to the citizens of Berkshire County and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to meet that objective.
They studied how eyewitness evidence is used in the courtroom and offered science-based recommendations going forward.
But it left many people who were convicted before the report still in prison. Hocus-Pocus
James Watson was 20 years old in 1979 when Boston police officers said they wanted to ask him questions about the murder of a cabdriver named Jeffrey Boyajian.
“ ‘Did anybody hear anything or see anything?’ ” Watson recalled the officers ask. “You know, they knock on people s doors. They knocked on my door. And then they stayed at my door.”
At the time, Watson was unemployed, a new father of an infant son. He told police he knew nothing about the crime. But they said two eyewitnesses saw him get into Boyajian’s cab the night he was killed.
Massachusetts' top court on Friday abolished an "unnecessarily confusing" alternative standard used by juries to determine whether a health care provider caused a patient's injury, and ruled that because a jury was instructed using the traditional standard a new trial was not warranted in a suit over a patient's death.
A Massachusetts appellate court held on Thursday that a worker injured on the job can't charge his health insurer for the cost of his medical marijuana, citing a precedent-setting case from last year that settled the issue in the Bay State.
PORTLAND, Maine – A retired drama teacher accused of sexually assaulting boys in Massachusetts and New York was allowed to teach in a program for senior citizens that’s affiliated with the University of Southern Maine’s Lewiston-Auburn campus.
The college s staff and faculty members are subject to criminal background checks, but they’re not required for senior college volunteers like 75-year-old Reynold Buono, who’s free on bail while awaiting trial in Massachusetts, according to the University of Maine System.
The senior college’s board severed connections with him immediately upon learning of the charges, said Lucy Bisson, the board’s chair.