I know the look.
Hollow, glassy eyes doing a middle distance stare that looks right through you, sizing you up.
“Are you holding?”
I’ve thought about saying, “That’s it.
I’m cutting off your supply,” for their own good.
But that gesture would be futile.
It’s merely that there’s less of it on the streets for those looking for a fix.
Sorry for anyone looking to score some high-grade, courtroom-quality stuff at that status conference today.
But it’s likely little more than what the name implies.
scheduling thing and ironing out any clerical issues.
There will be others before this thing ever gets back to the Square One of jury selection.
Which says it all about the magnitude of this one particular case in the Masshole consciousness.
Thousands of jury trials of varying degrees of consequence are conducted across the state every year.
(In the former, one was found guilty and the other walked out the courthouse that very day.
At least not in my experience.
But so far as far as I know, the Honor System has worked pretty well.
Until this trial came along and no one could get theCommonwealth v. Karen Readmonkey off their backs.
So good on Judge Cannone for making this case the rare exception and impounding that information, permanently.
