Third Decade reports winning a battle of wills with a hawk carrying some breakfast this morning. However, he did not pick up the spoils of victory, since he didn't have much need for a freshly killed squirrel.

The U.S. Attorney's office today filed a formal request asking that a federal judge make City Councilor Chuck Turner promise not to publicly divulge the contents of any recordings or documents it hands over to his attorneys before his and Dianne Wilkerson's criminal conspiracy and bribery cases come to trial. The U.S. Attorney's office argues:

Defendant Turner has made clear through his public statements that he intends to press his case in the media prior to trial and to act as "his own lawyer" in that regard. Mr. Turner has held a series of press conferences and rallies since we hwas charged in this matter, aimed in part at bolstering his character and attacking the government's motives for seeking an indictment against him from the grand jury. It can fairly be inferred that Mr. Turner will continue such press conferences and rallies in the future and, in the absence of a protective order, he will selectively use discovery provided by the government as part of his media campaign.

Because that would be unfair (and could hurt Wilkerson) - as opposed to, say, releasing photographic evidence against Turner before his trial.

Boston Police report finding a man with a gunshot wound to the leg around 2:30 this morning at Eustis and Dudley streets in Roxbury. He was taken to Brigham and Women's Hospital and is expected to survive, police say.

Not long after, police arrested Edward White, 23, of Boston and Joseph Warren, 20, of Somerville - after a brief foot chase - and charged both with assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon, unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition and carrying a loaded firearm on a public way.

Innocent, etc.

Nat Hentoff, who grew up on the Roxbury/Dorchester line, went to Boston Latin and got excommunicated by three rabbis in Tewksbury, has just been let go by the Village Voice after writing about politics and jazz there for 50 years.

Excerpt from Boston Boy, Hentoff's memoir of growing up in Jewish Boston:

... Eating a huge salami sandwich very slowly, I sit in the middle of the morning on our porch, which overlooks Warren Street, around the corner from Howland. Warren Street is the main route to our shul, our synagogue, a block away. It is Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, the day of fasting, the day on which God marks down the fate of every Jew for the year ahead. Some of the Jews who look up at the slovenly, munching boy on the porch shake their heads in disgust. I stare at them, taking another bite. One old man, with a white beard almost as long as our rabbi's, shakes his fist at me. Another old man spits. ...

They're looking for apartments left vacant by vacationing college students, but aren't all that choosy, Boston Police report:

If you see anyone in the area that does not look familiar to you, contact Boston Police immediately. If you are calling from your cell phone dial 617-343-4911; in order to get the Boston Police dispatcher.

The Dorchester Reporter gets the scoop on a Dec. 17 meeting in Roxbury at which the former state senator accused the Black Ministerial Alliance of Greater Boston and the Boston Ten-Point Coalition of essentially conspiring to oust her from office.

Conspiracy? Wilkerson? Why does that sound familiar? It'll come to me. ...

Boston Police report arresting two men on charges of unarmed robbery and assault and battery after an incident at Flann O'Brien's, 1619 Tremont St., around 12:30 a.m. today.

Officers learned that the two suspects had arrived at Flann O'Brien’s Pub in a cab and before they could go in the door got into a fight with someone outside. The victim then attempted to break up the fight between the suspects and a third party when the suspects assaulted him by punching about the face and chest and then grabbing a gold chain that the victim around his neck and ripping it off. During the assault and robbery, patrons and employees of the pub tried to intercede to stop the assault when the suspects gestured toward their pocket and waistband and stated that they were armed with a gun.

When police arrived, they found the two suspects across the street, with one matching a description from witnesses: A guy wearing a Yankees cap and speaking with a foreign accent. Neither, however, had a gun. Charged: Fuad A. Ali, 18, of Roxbury and Temesgen H. Kebedom, 22, of Boston.

Innocent, etc.

Third Decade, who lives on a hilly, curvy street in Roxbury, last night professed admiration for utility poles:

... I just watched one of my neighbors crash and bounce off the pole in front of my building twice. The wires twitched a bit, but the pole looks fine so far. Can't really tell how the car fared, though. ...

One guess on whose behalf Ramsey Clark is coming to Boston.

Just in case you can't figure it out, Michael Ball discusses.

PolitickerMA reports that Abrigal Forrester, a longtime Boston human-services worker, is considering a run for the District 7 city-council seat now held by Chuck Turner, who is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Carlos Henriquez, who ran against Turner in 2007, is also looking at a run.