Louise Woodward,born in 1978 (age 45–46),is a British former au pair,who at the age of 18 was charged with murder,but was subsequently convicted of involuntary manslaughter of eight-month-old baby Matthew Eappen,in Newton,Massachusetts,United States of America.
Michael Byron Nifong is a disbarred American prosecutor who served as the Durham County District Attorney until he was removed,disbarred,and very briefly jailed following court findings concerning his conduct in the Duke lacrosse case,primarily his conspiring with the DNA lab director to withhold exculpatory DNA evidence that could have acquitted the defendants.
Joseph Francis Quinn (1857–1929) was the first Irish American to become a judge in Massachusetts for any significant period of time. He served on the bench of the Essex County Superior Court after being appointed by Governor Eugene Foss in 1911 until his death in 1929. He lived in Salem and was the son of an immigrant from the days of the Great Famine. He attended the University of Ottawa in Canada due to discrimination against the Irish in the U.S. at the time,graduating in 1881,and went on to be admitted to the bar in Massachusetts in 1884 after attending Boston University School of Law and apprenticing under a local attorney. After working for the local U.S. Attorney,Joseph Quinn started his own thriving practice.
Cynthia Becker Mello is a former Georgia Superior Court Judge on the DeKalb Superior Court,Stone Mountain Judicial Circuit,from 2000 until March 1,2015. She presided over several high-profile cases,including the criminal trial of former Sheriff Sidney Dorsey and the release of exonerated Clarence Harrison.
Webster Thayer was a judge of the Superior Court of Massachusetts,best known as the trial judge in the Sacco and Vanzetti case.
Maria Lopez is a Cuban-American former judge and a former television jurist on the syndicated court show,Judge Maria Lopez.
Nancy Gertner is a former United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She assumed senior status on May 22,2011,and retired outright from the federal bench on September 1,2011. She is now a professor of practice at Harvard Law School.
Delbert Gee is a retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge who served for 20 years until 2022,presiding over both civil and criminal cases.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court is the intermediate appellate court of Massachusetts. It was created in 1972 as a court of general appellate jurisdiction. The court is located at the John Adams Courthouse at Pemberton Square in Boston,the same building which houses the Supreme Judicial Court and the Social Law Library.
Lawrence Fobes King,also known as Latisha King,was a 15-year-old student at E.O. Green Junior High School in Oxnard,California,who was shot twice by a fellow student,14-year-old Brandon McInerney,and kept on life support for two days afterwards.
Aaron Josef Hernandez was an American professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL). He played three seasons with the New England Patriots until his arrest and conviction for the murder of Odin Lloyd.
Jose Angel Baez is an American criminal defense lawyer and author. He is known for representing high-profile defendants such as Casey Anthony,Aaron Hernandez,Mark Nordlicht,and Harvey Weinstein.
Carmen Milagros Ortiz is an attorney,college instructor,and former United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.
G. Sarsfield Ford was an American jurist.
Odin Leonardo John Lloyd was a semi-professional American football player in the New England Football League who was murdered by Aaron Hernandez,a former tight end for the New England Patriots of the National Football League,in North Attleborough,Massachusetts,on June 17,2013. Lloyd's death made international headlines following Hernandez's association with the investigation as a suspect. Lloyd had been a linebacker for a New England Football League (NEFL) semi-professional football team,the Boston Bandits,since 2007.
Allison Dale Burroughs is a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
Michael Aaron Persky is an American attorney and former judge of the Santa Clara County Superior Court from 2003 to 2018.
George Augustus Sanderson was an American jurist who was an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1924 until his death in 1932.
In the early morning hours of January 29,2022,Boston Police Department Officer John O'Keefe was found dead outside the then home of then Boston Police Officer Brian Albert in Canton,Massachusetts. O'Keefe had been dropped off the night before by his girlfriend,Karen Read,to join a party hosted by Brian Albert and Jennifer McCabe. Upon being discovered,he was transported to a local hospital where cause of death was listed as blunt force trauma and hypothermia.
Richard B. McNamara is a retired American judge who served on the Superior Court of Merrimack County,New Hampshire,for eleven years,after being selected as the state's first business court judge. He was recruited out of law school to serve as a prosecutor in the New Hampshire Office of the Attorney General,where he handled murder cases very early in his career. He has authored leading New Hampshire law treatises on criminal and civil law topics. He was president of the New Hampshire Bar Association,and worked as a commercial litigator for 30 years at one law firm before his appointment as a judge to New Hampshire's specialized Business and Commercial Dispute Docket.
