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After 40 years in prison, Springfield man’s murder conviction overturned - The Boston Globe

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Ryan

A yellowed, one-page Springfield police report about a break-in had lain hidden in a file since the 1980s until just recently. Its long disappearance may have kept Edward Wright in prison for more than 40 years for a murder he says he did not commit. The report would have proved what defense attorneys had long claimed, that someone had broken into Penny Anderson’s Springfield apartment just days after her brutal killing, while police were still processing evidence.
Prosecutors toss major trafficking case after New Bedford police accused of misconduct with informant - The Boston Globe

1 week ago | bostonglobe.com | Dugan Arnett |Andrew Ryan

In a dramatic reversal, Bristol County prosecutors abruptly dismissed a long-running case Friday against an alleged drug trafficker after defense lawyers accused New Bedford police of dishonesty and misconduct with a confidential informant at the center of the case. The accused trafficker, Steven Ortiz, was arrested nearly eight years ago in the parking lot of a Fall River apartment complex, following a lengthy investigation by a multi-agency task force.
Why are cops addicted to confidential informants? The Globe investigates Snitch City - The Boston Globe

2 weeks ago | bostonglobe.com | Jazmin Aguilera |Andrew Ryan |Dugan Arnett

When it comes to the war on drugs, you could say the police are addicted to confidential informants. That’s the conclusion of a new Boston Globe Spotlight investigation into the pervasive and shadowy world of this police practice that is widely used and barely regulated. The story starts in New Bedford Massachusetts, where use of informants has had dramatic consequences.
Eight key takeaways from Spotlight’s Snitch City investigation - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Ryan

The Globe Spotlight Team’s latest investigation examined widespread misconduct in how police across Massachusetts use — and exploit — confidential informants to fight the war on drugs. The multipart “Snitch City” series and podcast opens in New Bedford, where reporters found that officers have used informants to settle scores, protect drug dealers, and break the law. Here are eight key takeaways from the ongoing series:Local police are addicted to informants.
New Bedford mayor pushes back on Spotlight report on police abuses, seeks FBI review - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Brendan McCarthy |Andrew Ryan

The mayor of New Bedford has asked the FBI, as well as an outside law enforcement expert, to examine the findings of a recent Globe Spotlight Team investigation into misconduct on the city’s police force and its history of misuse of confidential informants.
After taking office, New Bedford’s police chief quickly purged police disciplinary files

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Ryan

Less than three months after he became chief of the New Bedford Police Department, Paul Oliveira destroyed 25 years of internal affairs files, disposing of the official record of some potentially embarrassing investigations into the department’s officers, including at least eight into Oliveira himself. State law allows government officials to cull old records — and Oliveira sought and received permission to do so.
See Spotlight’s key findings on confidential informants - The Boston Globe

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Andrew Ryan |Dugan Arnett

Dozens of Massachusetts agencies — including two of the state’s 10 largest police departments, Brockton and Quincy — have no policy governing the use of informants, a fact that one criminal justice expert calls “insane.” More than three dozen departments in the state allow the use of unregistered informants, who are unvetted and go untracked.
A rogue cop, a mystery snitch, and a ‘drug rip.’ How ‘Officer Pills’ exploited policing’s informant system.

1 month ago | bostonglobe.com | Dugan Arnett |Andrew Ryan

Below deck, a handful of fishermen prepared for their journey. Some lay down to sleep. Shortly before 9:30, they heard pounding on the wheelhouse door. The stranger was dressed in black. His eyes were bloodshot. He had a pistol on his hip. He pushed his way into the cabin, barged into the bunk of a sleeping fisherman, and dug furiously through the man’s pockets. Jolted from sleep, the fisherman pushed and struggled to fight the intruder off.
Rosebank and Jackdaw: Climate change litigation and the impacts of evolving case law

1 month ago | lexology.com | Andrew Ryan

BackgroundIn June 2024, the UK Supreme Court issued its seminal decision in Finch on how emissions from carbon-emitting projects should be assessed within Environmental Impact Assessments (EIA). Finch concerned expansion of an oil extraction facility in Surrey. The UKSC held that the ‘downstream’ emissions from the ultimate combustion of extracted oil had to be assessed as part of the EIA accompanying the planning application.
Fund manager fees to be GST exempt: Draft IRD guidance reverses previous proposal

Sep 1, 2024 | lexology.com | Andrew Ryan |Simon Akozu |Lloyd Kavanagh |Jeremy Muir |Claire Brabant |Sue Wong

On 30 August 2024 Inland Revenue released a draft interpretation statement entitled “GST treatment of fees paid in relation to managed funds”. A key conclusion in that guidance is that fees payable to the manager of a managed fund for services supplied to investors are not subject to GST as they are consideration for exempt supplies of financial services. This is the opposite position to a legislative proposal in 2022 that would have made all fund manager services subject to GST at 15%.

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Articles

After 40 years in prison, Springfield man’s murder conviction overturned - The Boston Globe

Prosecutors toss major trafficking case after New Bedford police accused of misconduct with informant - The Boston Globe

Why are cops addicted to confidential informants? The Globe investigates Snitch City - The Boston Globe

Eight key takeaways from Spotlight’s Snitch City investigation - The Boston Globe

New Bedford mayor pushes back on Spotlight report on police abuses, seeks FBI review - The Boston Globe

After taking office, New Bedford’s police chief quickly purged police disciplinary files

See Spotlight’s key findings on confidential informants - The Boston Globe

A rogue cop, a mystery snitch, and a ‘drug rip.’ How ‘Officer Pills’ exploited policing’s informant system.

Rosebank and Jackdaw: Climate change litigation and the impacts of evolving case law

Fund manager fees to be GST exempt: Draft IRD guidance reverses previous proposal

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