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Police to seek criminal charges against alleged customers of Cambridge brothels run out of high-end apartments
By adamg on Mon, 12/18/2023 - 7:37pm
Cambridge Police are seeking criminal charges against 28 men they say patronized brothels run by three people who were arrested on federal charges in November, the US Attorney's office says.
The men's names will be released only if judges in Cambridge District Court find probable cause for arrest warrants and if the Middlesex Country District Attorney's office agrees to prosecute them, the US Attorney's office says.
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Good for CPD
Hopefully the judge and DA will support the police.
Probable cause
Probable cause being credit card transactions, text messages and ledger books, as previously reported?
Translation
The list of men has to be checked to see if there is anyone on it who needs to be protected.
Am I too cynical?
Not quite cynical enough
A real cynic would speculate that the list is being looked over by blackmailers for any interesting 'customers.'
Of course I have no idea whether or not such things happen in the real world.
Find the probable cause, …
… agree to prosecute them, then do it.
Don’t pussyfoot around it, your honors.
I know what you did last
I know what you did last summer.
Oh man!
I can’t wait to (hopefully) see this list!
Should we take bets on Robert Kraft being on the list?
People won't care
Anyone who cares about the women that he exploited in FL have opportunities to boycott any and all Gillette Stadium events. Such boycotts won't materialize though. People like Jim Braude will still be there getting their heads shaved to raise money for some event that Kraft uses as reputation laundering.
Hope there's been a lot of sweaty sleepless nights
...for the men rich and powerful enough to enjoy the illegal fruits of sex trafficking, but maybe not *quite* rich and powerful enough to keep their names out of the paper?
It's not just men
In case you missed it, one of the main defendants is a woman.
And she has already been identified
As most defendants are, and these johns...might be? Maybe?
Releasing the names is not 100% clear
This is complicated:
How about ...
We publish the names of ordinary people arrested for criminal acts --> PUBLISH
We don't get to have double standards when it comes to wealthy people. Either publish the names of misbehaving *important* people or stop identifying all people who are arrested until they are convicted.
You can't have it both ways.
No disagreement
No disagreement with "you can't have it both ways."
Some countries prohibit the publication of defendants' names until convicted.
The goals of transparency and of protecting the innocent are in conflict.
I'd like people who are arguing for publishing the names of the accused (in any crime) based on a desire to punish through shaming, to reconsider their position.
Menino's Municipal Channel
back in the day, they set up a camera in the Boston Municipal Court to record arraignments of the sad sacks who had been busted in a BPD sting / sweep in the Combat Zone.
This was so they could run the arraignments with the names etc on cable.
Finally a lawyer from CPCS argued that it wasn't a matter of a free press, it was the government running this as a preemptive punishment. And that it potentially interfered with the right to a fair trial as prejudicial pretrial publicity. That caused a judge to stop it.
I think it was Brockton that published the names of johns
To deter the patrons of streetwalkers (in the 1990s IIRC) the city of Brockton had the local newspaper publishing the names of men arrested for soliciting them.
One of the men was so distraught over that public shaming that he took his own life.
The same newspaper reported on the suicide, but in adhering to their policy they did not publish the person's name to protect the privacy of the family.
Wow
That is beyond messed up.