Killer Sex

There are only two people who know the real truth behind this story — and they’re both dead. Thirty-two-year-old Adrian Exley and Gary LeBlanc, a 48-year-old oil executive, met for sex in April 2006 after communicating online continents away from each other. One would ultimately die of asphyxiation and be buried in a shallow grave in Rhode Island. In turn, the other would shoot himself in the head in a Wal-Mart parking lot in New Hampshire, leaving a suicide note with sketchy details... More

'Move over, John Grisham': Exhibit A in print and video

Read reports and view video on the launch of Exhibit A. The Boston Globe: "Move over, John Grisham" Fox 25 News on Exhibit A's list of Notorious Criminals The Patriot Ledger: "Magazine minus legalese a big hit"  The Boston Herald: "'Intriguing' premise" The Boston Business Journal: "About the law - aimed at the general public" New England Cable News: "The first edition is causing quite a buzz"  Read More →

The case of the transsexual who landed in Tax Court

david.yas@exhibitAnews.com Rhiannon O’Donnabhain paused and put her hand to her eyes. The 50-odd people in Courtroom 1013 of Boston’s U.S. Tax Court could see that she was near tears. Anyone who happened to enter this courtroom to get a glimpse of a tax case might have thought she was a grandmother, perhaps recalling a difficult financial period in her past. But this was not a typical tax case. “I needed the operation so that I could be female,” said O’Donnabhain. “To... More

6-year-old charged with felony temper tantrum

6-year-old charged with felony temper tantrum A 6-year-old girl in Avon Park, Fla., is facing felony charges after having a temper tantrum in a kindergarten class. Desrée Watson allegedly began kicking and screaming on March 28 at the Avon Park Elementary School. Police were called, but initially had trouble subduing her because she crawled under a table. Watson was eventually handcuffed, put in the back of a police cruiser and thrown in jail. She was charged with felony battery. She also... More

Rebel with a cause

There’s a foot-tall stack of cases in the Clerk’s Office at Quincy District Court with Colman M. Herman’s name on them — despite the fact that he not a serial criminal, and he doesn’t even live in Quincy. As it turns out, Herman’s a guy with no legal background whatsoever, but who, by relentlessly filing complaints against companies for violating consumer-protection laws, has single-handedly punished multi-national corporations, changed laws and transformed the... More

For those about to rock

noah.schaffer@exhibitAnews.com When the Boston rock band O Positive was recording for a major label and sharing the stage with the likes of the Pixies and Bryan Ferry in the late ’80s and early ’90s, chances are few of the group’s fans knew that lead singer Dave Herlihy’s previous gig had been as a corporate attorney. That job involved defending white-collar criminals — something he essentially hated. “I didn’t like winning on their behalf,” Herlihy... More

Has the state’s new health care law been explained clearly enough so that you understand it?

“I would say no, because I don’t know that much about it.” — Harold Babcock - Newburyport “I don’t [know anything specific about the law]. Everyone has health care [now]; I even have health care. So, yes, it’s enough information.” — Lester Joyner - Charlestown “They should make the language more accessible to people and maybe add bullet points [to the literature] to expressly say, ‘This is what it is. … These are the intentions... More

Legal Briefs

Fingers, lawsuit lost after grinder mishap An employee who lost her index finger and thumb in a meat grinder accident got nothing for her injuries after a jury determined the grinder was not defective. The employee, a 23-year-old woman originally from El Salvador, was grinding meat and cheese in a Tor Rey brand meat grinder at her job in Somerville when her finger and thumb were crushed by the device. They later had to be amputated. The employee claimed the guard that was supposed to cover an open... More

Entrance through sunroof tough break for car-part thief

As one man recently discovered, the crime of breaking and entering in Massachusetts doesn’t necessarily require any actual “breaking.” According to court documents, the man had been casing an MBTA parking lot when he came upon a Mazda Protege sport hatchback. He jumped onto the top of the car and proceeded to slither through the open sunroof. Once inside the vehicle, he grabbed a stereo part that police later found in a compartment under the door handle of the thief’s own... More

From alleged mobsters to killer dermatologists, Boston lawyer no stranger to high-profile cases

Q. You’ve described your involvement in the recent $101.7 million wrongful-conviction case out of Boston’s federal court — in which you successfully represented one of the plaintiffs and the estate of another man who were framed by the FBI in 1965 and sentenced to death for a murder they did not commit — as a once-in-a-career case. But you’ve been involved in some other headline-grabbers … A. In the Fells Acre day-care center case, I represented Gerald Amirault... More

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