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The showdown between the district attorney at Boston and the Trump administration is heating up after the top federal prosecutor in the Democrat-run city threatened to bring felony charges against a ...
From The New York Sun
“It’s a case of violating a defendant’s right to present at trial and confront witnesses against him,” Judge Mark Summerville said from the bench.
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“This action by ICE was troubling and extraordinarily reckless,” Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said.
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