{"id":1582,"date":"2010-10-24T19:34:21","date_gmt":"2010-10-24T23:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/?p=1582"},"modified":"2010-10-25T18:07:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T22:07:36","slug":"emergency-dispatch-chuck-turner-trial-enters-critical-phase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/2010\/10\/24\/emergency-dispatch-chuck-turner-trial-enters-critical-phase\/","title":{"rendered":"Chuck Turner trial in critical phase."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/10\/moak1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1590\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/10\/moak1.png\" alt=\"Moakley Courthouse on the bay side.\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/10\/moak1.png 540w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/10\/moak1-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Community Church of Boston<\/a> tell me that the corruption trial of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofboston.gov\/citycouncil\/cc_info.asp?councilor=Turner\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck Turner<\/a> has entered a critical phase. The &#8220;Cooperting Witness&#8221; who initially said Chuck had given him a bribe then told the newspapers otherwise, was on the stand again today. The Boston Herald had problems with his previous testimony: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/politics\/view.bg?articleid=1290838\" target=\"_blank\">Trial tipping in Chuck Turner&#8217;s favor<\/a>.&#8221; I heard the end of his testimony today. It was full of non recollections and inconsistencies.\u00a0\u00a0 Chuck Turner insists he will testify. The cours is about guilty vs. not guilty. Chuck says he is innocent. That is not the same as not guilty. His lawyer, Barry Wilson had no comment about putting Chuck on the stand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/10\/Barry-Wilson1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1592\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/10\/Barry-Wilson1.png\" alt=\"Chuck Turner's lawyer Barry Wilson\" width=\"540\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/10\/Barry-Wilson1.png 540w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/files\/2010\/10\/Barry-Wilson1-300x245.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trial continues tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moakleycourthouse.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Moakley Federal Court House<\/a>: Boston waterfront in the Seaport District on Fan Pier.\u00a0 Take the Silver Line from South Station one stop. The session starts at 9:00 AM.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/?p=38\" target=\"_blank\">Chuck Turner is the 2007 winner of the Community Church of Boston Sacco and Vanzetti <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/?p=38\" target=\"_blank\">Social Justice <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.communitychurchofboston.org\/home\/?p=38\" target=\"_blank\">Award <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friends at the Community Church of Boston tell me that the corruption trial of Chuck Turner has entered a critical phase. The &#8220;Cooperting Witness&#8221; who initially said Chuck had given him a bribe then told the newspapers otherwise, was on the stand again today. The Boston Herald had problems with his previous testimony: &#8220;Trial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":168,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/168"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1582"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1582\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/fensterm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}