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Legally Speaking: Whitey Bulger case

Legally Speaking: Whitey Bulger case

- Fox News Boston
As the legal maneuverings continue in the Whitey Bulger case, most suspect it will only be a matter of time before the former mob boss will be convicted and thrown behind bars for the rest of his life.
However, there is one well known and well respected defense attorney who doesn't think charges against Bulger will hold up.
Boston-based Norm Pattis has been called one of the last slash-and-burn trial lawyers by none other than F. Lee Bailey, who is also the author of the new...

Bulger in Court

Defense attorney Norm Pattis on Whitey Bulger

Defense attorney Norm Pattis on Whitey Bulger

- WRKO AM 680
Defense attorney Norm Pattis believes the Bulger prosecution is a headline-grab by overzealous federal prosecutors.
The charges against alleged crime boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger won’t hold up and the FBI and prosecutors may regret putting Bulger in the public spotlight.


To Bulger prosecutors: You can’t handle the truth!

To Bulger prosecutors: You can’t handle the truth!

- Blast
“The truth? You can’t handle the truth!” When Jack Nicholson snarled those famous lines in a courtroom during the film “A Few Good Men,” he could just as easily have been reciting lines in Martin’s Scorsese’s “The Departed,” where he played the role of Frank Costello, a Boston mobster, the inspiration for whom is none other than James J. “Whitey” Bulger.
Bulger, 81, was captured by chest-thumping federal agents in Santa...

Attorney: Bulger holds hammer in court

Attorney: Bulger holds hammer in court

Norm Pattis says the case against Whitey Bulger is no slam dunk

- New England Cable News
Connecticut attorney Norm Pattis has a question. "How much truth about local law enforcement to the people of Boston want to know? If Whitey Bulger wages an aggressive defense he'll tear that town apart."
Pattis is not afraid to take on the criminal justice system and he says Whitey Bulger should feel the same. While he is accused in 19 murders it is Bulger, says Pattis, who holds the hammer because he was an FBI informant and agents protected him for years.
"I suspect there are a lot...


Murder Charges Dropped Against 3 Men in New Haven Shooting

Murder Charges Dropped Against 3 Men in New Haven Shooting

- New Haven Register
After a prosecutor said the state had no firm forensic evidence and potential witnesses had been uncooperative, a Superior Court judge Tuesday dismissed murder charges against three men in the September 2008 slaying of Christopher Senior.
While brothers Gilbert and Pierre Galan and co-defendant Tivon Edwards stood in court in prison attire, Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Brian Sibley Sr. told Judge Roland Fasano about an extended but futile effort to build the...

Murder Charges Dropped Against 3 Men in New Haven Shooting

Murder Charges Dropped Against 3 Men in New Haven Shooting

- New Haven Register
After a prosecutor said the state had no firm forensic evidence and potential witnesses had been uncooperative, a Superior Court judge Tuesday dismissed murder charges against three men in the September 2008 slaying of Christopher Senior.
While brothers Gilbert and Pierre Galan and co-defendant Tivon Edwards stood in court in prison attire, Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Brian Sibley Sr. told Judge Roland Fasano about an extended but futile effort to build the...

Defense attorney Norm Pattis joins WPLR's Charles and AJ

Defense attorney Norm Pattis joins WPLR's Charles and AJ

- WPLR
Defense attorney Norm Pattis joins WPLR's Charles and AJ in Connecticut to talk about the law, Weinergate and America's sexophrenic culture, the competency of the Gifford shooter, a homeless mother charged with stealing education by enrolling her child in a better school district, and his new book Taking Back the Courts.

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