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Sam Sutter as 'Boss Hogg' Defense attorney Kevin Reddington used a few pop culture references during the course of the trial. He was reprimanded by Judge Douglas Woodlock for referencing the mob movie, "Goodfellas," while cross examining alleged co-conspirator Tony Costa. And when questioning the tax preparer from Liberty Tax Services, he suggested they were the ones with the "Liberty, Liberty, Lib-erty" jingle (they aren't — that's Liberty Mutual insurance). Still, the image of former District Attorney Sam Sutter, who served an abbreviated term as Fall River mayor after the recall of Will...

For the hundreds of us watching from home, some of the testimony and the defense presented this week have us wondering what's really going on.

FALL RIVER — In the first week of the Jasiel Correia trial, jurors heard from 20 witnesses, so far focused solely on the charges related to his former app company SnoOwl. Starting Monday, the government will begin presenting its case against Correia on the government corruption charges — that’s the part related to his alleged shakedown of marijuana vendors looking to do business in Fall River. But in the testimony so far — much of it very technical and related to accounting methods and financial records — there have been a number of head-scratching moments for those of us watching f...