(BOSTON) JULY 27 – JUDGES ON A FEDERAL MID-LEVEL APPEALS COURT IN BOSTON APPEARING UNCONVINCED BY ARGUMENTS MONDAY THAT ONE OF THAT CITY’S MOST NOTORIOUS GANGSTERS SHOULD HAVE A NEW TRIAL.
FOX NEWS RADIO’S BILL MARCUS HAS MORE FROM THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE IN BOSTON.
A LAWYER FOR CONVICTED GANGSTER WHITEY BULGER TELLING THREE APPEALS JUDGES BULGER NEVER GOT A FAIR TRIAL.
THAT HIS DOUBLE LIFE SENTENCE FOR HIS ROLE IN ELEVEN MURDERS SHOULD BE OVERTURNED BECAUSE HE WAS NOT ALLOWED TO TESTIFY ABOUT GETTING A PROMISE OF IMMUNITY FROM A NOW-DEAD FEDERAL PROSECUTOR.
THE JUDGE AT HIS TRIAL RULING BULGER COULDN’T ARGUE HE HAD IMMUNITY WITHOUT EVIDENCE.
QUESTIONS FROM THE THREE-JUDGE PANEL TODAY CHALLENGING BULGER’S ATTORNEY TO SHOW EVIDENCE FROM SUCH A DEAL EVER EXISTED.
THE GOVERNMENT ARGUING BULGER CHOSE NOT TO TESTIFY.
AT THE FEDERAL COURTHOUSE IN BOSTON, BILL MARCUS, FOX NEWS RADIO
THE 85 YEAR-OLD FORMER CRIME BOSS NOW SERVING TWO LIFE TERMS FOR HIS ROLE IN ELEVEN MURDERS. HE WAS ALSO CONVICTED OF EXTORTION, CONSPIRACY, NARCOTICS DISTRIBUTION, AND MONEY LAUNDERING.