That questions struck a nerve with Uhlar. After hearing from Bulger about MK-ULTRA, "as if I should have known about it," she visited him at a Florida federal prison three times to discuss the experiments and started reading everything she could find about them. The hearings included testimony from CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who acknowledged evidence showing that the agency had been searching for a drug that could prepare someone for "debilitating an individual or even killing another person.
According to at least two of the several books written about Bulger and his life of crime, associates including corrupt former FBI agent John Morris said they assumed Bulger would use the LSD experiments to mount an insanity defense if he were ever caught and tried.
But in , Bulger's Boston attorneys, J. Carney Jr. Neither Carney nor Brennan would comment on their decision — attorney-client privilege outlasts a client's death. But Anthony Cardinale, a Boston lawyer who has represented numerous organized crime defendants, said he would have opted for an insanity defense, in part because of the abundant evidence against Bulger.
Still, Cardinale acknowledged there would have been challenges to presenting an insanity defense, including the fact that Bulger spent 16 years outwitting several law enforcement agencies before he was captured in in Santa Monica, California, where he'd been living quietly with his longtime girlfriend while on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. To his dying day, Bulger insisted he'd received criminal immunity from a deceased federal prosecutor who once headed the New England Organized Crime Strike Force.
John Bradley, a former Massachusetts federal prosecutor and assistant district attorney, agreed that defense lawyers would have faced high hurdles waging an insanity defense, noting that most end in convictions. Former mobster Kevin Weeks, Bulger's right hand man for more than two decades, went to prison on racketeering and money laundering charges. Emily Rooney interviewed him after he wrote a book about his time with Bulger. Catherine Greig stayed with Bulger for more than 16 years while he was on the run.
After Bulger was captured, she pleaded guilty to charges of helping him evade authorities. But her saga wasn't over. Three years after going to prison, Greig faced new charges for allegedly refusing to name who helped her and Bulger stay free.
Janet Uhlar, one of the jurors who found Bulger guilty, communicated with him via letters after the trial. In this courtroom sketch, former Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger, second right, flanked by defense attorneys, J.
And it only takes one to vote not guilty on all the criminal charges to produce a hung jury, Bradley noted, forcing prosecutors to decide whether to retry a case. Even if Bulger were convicted on the other criminal charges and received a sentence that would have kept him behind bars for life, a refusal to find him guilty on the murder charges would have meant anguish for family members of his victims.
She also gives occasional talks on the trial at community centers and libraries. Bulger often wrote to Uhlar as if she were a friend, even joking with her. Sections U.
Science Technology Business U. More Weekend Reads. If not, transfer him and release him out of solitary. Nearly three years later, no one has been charged with the crime and questions remain over how the notorious mobster and longtime FBI informant ended up in a prison unit with at least two other gangsters from Massachusetts, Geas and DeCologero.
He was moved into a cell in a special housing unit, commonly known as solitary confinement, where inmates are segregated from the general population and denied privileges such as access to TV, regular phone calls and time in the yard.
Inmates placed in special housing units sometimes share a cell; McKinnon spent much of his time in solitary in the same cell as DeCologero. His mother said he was struggling to adjust to a loud and chaotic detention facility after spending so long in solitary.
McKinnon, who is serving a seven-year sentence, is set to be released from prison in July DeCologero, 47, has five years left on his year sentence on racketeering and witness-tampering charges.
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