BROCKTON The controversy began with a lawsuit from a disgruntled former employee.
Veteran prosecutor John Bradley sued the Plymouth County district attorney’s office for wrongful termination, alleging his former bosses retaliated against him after he stopped volunteering time and money to District Attorney Timothy Cruz’s reelection campaigns.
The litigation lasted years, generating testimony from former prosecutors and troves of internal documents that offered an unprecedented window into the politics inside the DA’s office, the arm of state government that turns arrests into criminal convictions in Brockton and 26 towns in Plymouth County.
Among the documents entered into the public record were Bradley’s emails thousands of them at the former prosecutor’s own request. And while Bradley won a settlement of $250,000, the emails, which contained scores of inappropriate remarks about defendants he and his colleagues sent to prison, set off a series of unintended
On Monday, one of the most notorious murder cases in recent Cobb history will be back in the spotlight as Justin Ross Harris begins his quest for a new trial.
Over four years ago, Harris was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the murder of his 22-month-old son, Cooper Harris. Cooper died after being left in the back seat of his fatherâs car for over seven hours, while his father worked at a Home Depot office on Cumberland Parkway.
Now, Harris and his attorneys will appear at a three-day hearing for a new trial starting Monday. Itâs set to be heard in Cobb Superior Court by Judge Mary Staley Clark, who presided over the initial trial.