SPOTLIGHT FOLLOW Working on a story regarding Breanna Lungo-Koehn's failure to perform vis-a-vis the L'Italien Report and Brady list. This story from 2 years ago, Dec 2018, is pertinent to the argument against the mayor's intentional inaction on the problem.
This 2 year old story is the basis for our next article pressing Breanna Lungo-Koehn on her Failure to Perform in the wake of the L'Italien Report
Charges against Boston officer disappear after private court hearing
The Globe’s Spotlight Team learned about the cases while investigating the unusually secretive process that Massachusetts uses to consider requests — mostly from police — for criminal charges issued in district and municipal courts. The process is not replicated in any other state.
The hearings, overseen by clerk magistrates and assistant clerks, are usually not recorded, and are closed to the public and missing from public court calendars. Court officials frequently won’t even confirm or deny a specific case exists.
The Spotlight Team report, “Inside our secret courts,” published in late September, found the clerks dismissed nearly 62,000 cases in the hearings over the past two years, including more than 18,000, or 29 percent, where clerks acknowledged there was enough evidence to justify issuing charges. The report also found the way clerks ruled varied widely from one courthouse to the next and raised questions of whether the powerful and connected received special treatment.
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