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6 Jul 2009, 1:23 am
George Runner, the principal sponsor of Proposition 83, the 2006 initiative popularly known as Jessica's Law, which voters approved overwhelmingly.Among other things, the law severely restricts where sexual offenders can live after being [read post]
20 May 2008, 10:16 pm
Repeat offenders face up to 20-year mandatory minimum sentences.Massachusetts is joining several states that have adopted harsher sex crime penalties following Florida's passage of Jessica's Law, named after 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was raped and killed by a convicted sex offender in 2005.Wendy Murphy, a victims rights advocate and former assistant Middlesex County district attorney, called the (House) legislation "watered down" and "a… [read post]
14 Apr 2008, 3:11 am
His office usually handles appeals, but he told local district attorneys that they should be prepared to fight their own battles should they choose to argue for retroactivity under Jessica's law.In Stanislaus County, Baker argued for retroactivity on two cases.In March 2007, the prosecutor persuaded Superior Court Judge Loretta Murphy Begen to impose an indeterminate commitment on Calhoun, 47, who was convicted of molesting the 6-year-old son of his girlfriend and an… [read post]
2 Apr 2008, 2:25 am
Jessica Glendening of the Johnson County Public Defender Office won in State v. [read post]
29 Feb 2008, 12:29 pm
None of the employees fired had ever been convicted of a sex-related crime - the very crime that brought about the Jessica Lunsford Act. [read post]
2 Feb 2008, 1:20 pm
"This was an overreaction, and some very fine folks got caught up in it, Murphy said. [read post]
26 Nov 2007, 9:12 pm
Murphy over those "fascinatingly repellent" letters he sent to the publisher of the Boston Herald demanding a settlement of what proved a winning $2 million libel suit (Jessica Van Sack, "Public reprimand urged for Judge Murphy", Boston Herald, Nov. 21; see Sept. 28, etc.). [read post]
16 Oct 2007, 8:24 am
Could, then, the SJC remove Judge Murphy from the bench? [read post]
27 Sep 2007, 10:10 pm
Call it one of those miracle recoveries (Jessica Van Sack, "Bay State judge plays ponies for two days at N.Y. track", Boston Herald, Sept. 27). [read post]
17 Apr 2007, 9:14 am
My colleague, Jessica Grant, kindly wrote the following summary of the Supreme Court's decision yesterday in Murphy v. [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 6:00 am
My colleague, Jessica Grant, has graciously signed on to write a summary of Murphy v. [read post]
1 Feb 2007, 1:00 am
Submit your original letter to Terrence Murphy, CBA Executive Director, 321 S. [read post]