Judges seek info in Kerns case:
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court has requested a transcript of the trial of Tobin Kerns before ruling on the matter of whether or not Juvenile Court Judge Louis Coffin can rule his verdict based on a general threats statute rather than a statue regarding threatening to use deadly weapons which is what Kerns was indicted for.
If Coffin rules based on a general threats statute, the prosecution must prove that the threat was targeted at a specific individual and was communicated to that individual.
Which to my knowledge it wasn’t.
Assistant District Attorney Gail McKenna has 14 days to submit a brief explaining why this such an extraordinary circumstance that the Supreme Judicial Court has to intervene. I wonder if the Joe Nee trial will get this kind of scrutiny.
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