"South End man faces child porn charges" by Javier Panzar | Globe Correspondent, July 19, 2013
A South End man who has volunteered as a local Little League coach was ordered held on $150,000 bail Friday after being charged with possessing child pornography.
What's sad is Obama just had him to the White House for ceremony.
Andrew McKinnon, 48, was also charged with distribution of material that depicted a nude child, according to court records.
McKinnon volunteered this season as an assistant coach for two teams in the South End Baseball League, the Red Sox and the Dodgers, but left before the season ended, said league commissioner Owen Carlson.
He said the league does not believe that McKinnon ever had unsupervised time with players, adding that he only showed up to about half of the games and would only keep score or temporarily fill in for the first base coach.
McKinnon passed a mandatory criminal background check before he began volunteering, Carlson said.
“It is very, very surprising,” the league commissioner said.
McKinnon was arrrested Thursday after State Police found the files when they executed a search warrant at his home on Union Park Street.
During an undercover investigation June 25, a state trooper directly connected to McKinnon’s home computer and downloaded several digital files containing child pornography, according to a criminal complaint filed in Boston Municipal Court.
No chance he planted them there, right?
Just a question. I mean, after all we have seen (or not. I never go near that sick s***. I'm too busy falling further behind here) nothing is beyond the media psyop realm.
Authorities gained access to McKinnon’s computer through a public peer-to-peer file sharing network that allowed direct access to McKinnon’s hard drive, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley.
“Child pornography and specifically sharing it over peer-to-peer networks has become exponentially more common just over the past few years,” Wark said....
Yeah what's with that? Seeing as the NSA is scooping up all communications of the planet, how can child porn sites still exist? The only explanation, sadly, is they are all government-controlled traps for sick souls (if the whole thing isn't staged and scripted s*** that never even happened. Seen that before, too).
UPDATE: How the FBI Uses Rapists and Child Molesters to Entrap Gullible People in Terror Stings
Hey, it's all for laughs anyway, right?
Michael Roitman, his lawyer, said McKinnon has no previous criminal record, and it is not known who else might have had access to his computer or sent him files.
“The charge here has absolutely no allegation of any contact with any child, nothing,” Roitman said.
“He is being charged with having an image on a computer in his home, which we haven’t seen yet.”
Yeah, but....
McKinnon is a graduate of Montclair University and Northeastern University, said Roitman. A police booking form said he works as a handy man.
If McKinnon posts bail, he must submit to GPS monitoring and stay away from schools and children, a judge ruled.
Presumed guilty.
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That doesn't seem so bad now.
"Error in Middlesex DA’s office could affect child porn cases" by Travis Andersen | Globe Staff, June 01, 2013
An error made by an employee in the Middlesex district attorney’s office could affect at least a dozen child pornography cases in the county, authorities said on Friday.
District Attorney Marian Ryan’s office said the administrative assistant was placed on paid leave after prosecutors learned Wednesday that the worker had sent out several administrative subpoenas without prior review and approval by a prosecutor, as required by law.
The subpoenas are sent to Internet service providers and phone companies. In issuing the subpoenas, authorities are typically seeking to obtain the names and addresses of people who are suspected of engaging in criminal activity on their electronic devices.
Yeah, yeah, whatever, Globe. The government is gathering up everything, has been for a long time, and is expanding its storage facilities (making some well-connected tech companies rich). This idea that the well-meaning surveillance oppressors are so meticulous, blah, blah, blah, blah, wears old after a while.
Once prosecutors receive the necessary information from the companies, they can ask a judge or a magistrate to issue a search warrant for a particular property.
In a statement, Ryan said that a prosecutor preparing for a hearing in a child pornography case discovered that the office worker, whom she did not identify, had issued a subpoena without proper review. The discovery prompted an internal investigation.
“At this time, we believe this conduct was limited to approximately a dozen matters, all of which involved child pornography investigations that occurred between July 2010 and December 2010,” Ryan said.
She said the information obtained from the subpoenas was used, along with other investigative materials, to secure search warrants.
“The matter is still under review, but in an abundance of caution, we are reaching out to defense counsel on any cases we are aware of that may have been potentially affected,” Ryan said. “The administrative assistant has been placed on paid leave while this investigation continues.”
Stephanie Chelf Guyotte, a spokeswoman for Ryan, would not identify any of the affected defendants or their lawyers, or discuss the status of any of the cases.
Jeffrey Denner, a prominent criminal defense lawyer in Boston, said lawyers for the affected defendants will “certainly” review the matter to see if their clients’ rights were violated.
He said possible remedies could include suppressing evidence or dismissing cases, or simply punishing whoever was responsible for the error. He added that Ryan’s office may implement extra oversight measures, such as double signatures, to ensure compliance with the law.
“You have to put something in place that makes people think very, very carefully before doing this in the future,” Denner said.
He said the Middlesex office is well run, and he commended prosecutors for being up front about the mistake and the subsequent investigation.
Chelf Guyotte said Friday night that she was not aware of any motions that lawyers for the affected defendants may have filed to dismiss cases or vacate sentences. She said prosecutors had just notified defense lawyers earlier in the day.
The news from Ryan’s office comes as the state court system continues to deal with the fallout from the scandal involving Annie Dookhan, a former chemist at a now-closed state lab who allegedly falsified or mishandled a high number of suspected drug samples in criminal cases.
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"The lawyer for disgraced chemist Annie Dookhan is seeking to have 11 obstruction of justice charges against her dismissed, arguing that there is no evidence that his client willfully misled anyone during her testimony in those cases in Essex, Norfolk, Plymouth, Middlesex, and Bristol Counties."
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What were they smoking down at the drug testing labs????!!!!
Hundreds of defendants have been freed from prison as a result, and Dookhan is facing a slew of criminal charges in state court.
Denner said that the subpoena issue in Ryan’s office is “somewhat comparable” to the Dookhan scandal.
He said the laws governing administrative subpoenas exist to ensure that the “protections we have against unreasonable searches and seizures aren’t violated. Each link in this chain of protection is important and exists for a reason.”
Translation: Massachusetts "justice" is a mess.
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