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— News about Quincy Massachusetts from Quincy Quarry News with commentary added
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As this week unofficially started the first week of at least family vacay time as well as featured the Fourth of July national holiday, jury members for the Karen Read trial was not buying the prosecution’s case as a mistrial was declared given a said to be hopelessly deadlocked jury.
At the same time, so what for the fact that bases for reasonable doubt were as ample as the state’s case was fraught with deficiencies and arguably worse.
Then again, the prosecution was up against forensic experts — including some who who were retained by the feds — who all ripped the prosecution’s experts new ones, not to mention when was the last time the feds spend hundreds of thousands of dollars as well as wore out serious shoe leather on behalf of a defendant accused of killing a police officer?
Fortunately, to offset the lack of closure absent a verdict, there was some excitement: someone facing a criminal hearing in nearby Dedham District Court unsuccessfully tried to escape.
Breaking:Prisoner who escaped from Dedham District court moments ago is now back in custody after racing through the crowd of Karen Read supporters camped outside superior court and still waiting for a verdict #7News pic.twitter.com/09jQ8K1jXt
— Steve Cooper (@scooperon7) July 1, 2024
West Nile Virus not only bites but can also kill
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Next up ugly, the Massachusetts Department of Public Health found the first West Nile Virus-carrying mosquitos of the season in Quincy.
And for the big exposé of the week: Quincy Quarry News’ review of Quincy Mayor Thomas P. Koch’s trying to justify how he should be paid as the mayor of the small city that is Quincy more than what most of the mayors of the largest cities in the United States are paid, not to mention also variously paid more than what the Governor of Massachusetts, both of the Commonwealth’s two US senators, and the mayor of Boston are paid.
Then again, Mayor Koch has always had an inflated sense of himself.
