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Bail set at $50,000 for man still accused of murdering a Boston detective
By adamg on Tue, 05/12/2015 - 2:56pm
Suffolk Superior Court Judge Carol Ball set the bail for Sean Ellis, who recently won a new trial on charges he shot BPD Det. John Mulligan to death in a Roslindale strip-mall parking lot in 1993, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
A judge agreed Ellis needed a new trial because prosecutors withheld evidence from his attorneys that might have let them make the case that corrupt detectives were actually responsible for Mulligan's death.
People charged with first-degree murder are normally held without bail.
The DA's office says:
Ellis is indicted for first-degree murder, he was and remains convicted of possessing the murder weapon and the murder victim’s service weapon, and none of the evidence introduced in support of his successful motion for a new trial contradicts or undermines the evidence supporting his 1995 conviction.
This will be Ellis's fourth trial for the murder.
Innocent, etc.
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Only 50k?
Only 50k?
Sean Ellis shouldn't have
Sean Ellis shouldn't have gone to jail. Angry that Evans doesn't understand that the trial is a good thing. Get corruption out of law enforcement!
No need for a trial then! You
No need for a trial then! You decided for us!
besides the tragedy that a person who was killed
this is also tragic in that one of two truths are likely:
1. the family and friends of the slain person have to keep suffering through retrials of a person who is genuinely guilty
2. n person not guilty of the killing has been wrongly convicted and jailed for 20 years, and is still not out
i guess possibility 2 would be even worse than 1, which part of why we have retrials, to make sure. it's still awful.
MULLIGAN
Mulligan's popular name among members of the criminal defense bar was "Plain View Mulligan" This was so because he would always testify(lie) that when he looked into the vehicle the drugs, guns etc. were in plain view, obviating the need for a warrant. There is little doubt that Ellis was set up by his brother officers.
Um ...
Ellis wasn't a cop.
I'm guessing he meant...
Ellis was set up by _Mulligan's_ brother officers.
How do you get
From Point A to Point B in that argument?
If the glove don't fit
........