Mr. Parker represented the
brother of a famous 1960’s radical and negotiated a favorable resolution. Federal prosecutors charged Mr. Parker’s client with
criminal trademark infringement for selling counterfeit designer
handbags at a Cape Cod flea market.
An alarming number of wrongful convictions of innocent persons in Boston have come to light in recent years. Mr. Parker is trying to add one of his cases to the list. His client, 17 years old at the time of the murder he was charged with, is serving a sentence of life without the possibility of parole. During the trial, Mr. Parker uncovered undisclosed promises made by police to a key witness and exposed rampant police threats to bend the testimony of another witness to fit the prosecutor’s theory. Based on evidence obtained after trial, Mr. Parker hopes to prevail on a motion for new trial.
One of the biggest news
stories in recent years has been the revelation that two of Boston’s most
notorious criminals, James “Whitey” Bulger and Stephen “The Rifleman” Flemmi
were FBI informants. That
revelation led to the criminal prosecution in federal court of one of the FBI
agents who handled Bulger and Flemmi.
It also led to a number of civil lawsuits against the FBI by the families of persons who were murdered
by Bulger and/or Flemmi over the course of three decades. Mr. Parker represented a retired FBI agent in many of those civil suits and also
represented the agent at his second appearance before a Congressional
Committee investigating FBI corruption.
Mr. Parker’s representation of a Harvard graduate student charged with murder in the death of a Cambridge man has generated extensive media coverage.
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