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CHAPTER 18: THE TRIAL
INTERVIEWS: Kenny Conley: July 5, 2001; July 6, 2001; July 11, 2001; July 16, 2001; Oct. 11, 2005; Nov. 4, 2005; Jan. 19,,2007; Feb. 19, 2007; March 27, 2007. Michael Cox: April 6, 2008. Carol Goslant: March 2, 2008; March 9, 2008. Willie Davis: March 30, 2006; March 4, 2008. Robert McDonough: March 4, 2008. Fran Robinson: March 30, 2006; Dec. 10, 2007; March 3, 2008; several e-mail exchanges. Robert Sinsheimer: February 2008 (several); several e-mail exchanges. Sharon Schwartz: March 7, 2008.
OTHER: Tour of Judge Young’s courtroom, lobby, and jury room, April 6, 2005. Q&A with Judge Young in “Bench Conference” 1996 column in Lawyer’s Weekly. Holiday greeting card dated Dec. 23, 1998, sent by Carol Goslant to Michael Cox.
RECORDS: Cox trial transcript.
NEWS ARTICLES: Campbell, Robert, “A Mixed Verdict on New US Courthouse,” Boston Globe, Sept. 7, 1998. Donlan, Ann E., “Many Cops Relieved That Justice Is Finally Done,” Boston Herald, Dec. 23, 1998. MacQuarrie, Brian, “Two Found Liable in Beating of Fellow Officer; a Third Policeman Also Implicated; Another Cleared,” Boston Globe, Dec. 23, 1998. Murphy, Shelley, “At Civil Rights Trial, Detective Recalls He Was Beaten,” Boston Globe, Dec. 9, 1998. Ranalli, Ralph, “He Kicked Me in the Mouth; Cox Testifies in Police Beating Lawsuit,” Boston Herald, Dec. 9, 1998. Ranalli, Ralph, “Lawyer for Accused Cops Attacks Victim’s Memory,” Boston Herald, Dec. 10, 1998. Ranalli, Ralph, “Hub Cops Found Liable in Officer’s Beating,” Boston Herald, Dec. 23, 1998.
EPILOGUE
SWORN TESTIMONY AND STATEMENTS BY: James Burgio (Burgio arbitration); Michael Cox (Dateline NBC, Nov. 2, 1999).
INTERVIEWS: James Burgio: Sept. 22, 2006. Kenny Conley: July 11, 2001; Jan. 19, 2007. Michael Cox: March 12, 2006; Oct. 15, 2006; April 6, 2008. Craig Jones: Aug. 20, 2007. Vincent Johnson: 2006 (several telephone interviews). Bobby Dwan: Dec. 31, 2005; Dec. 5, 2006. Robert Sheketoff: Nov. 13, 1997; Dec. 14, 2005; Dec. 30, 2005; March 17, 2006. Robert Sinsheimer: April 1, 2008.
RECORDS: Boston Police Department rank and promotion records for Isaac Thomas, David C. Murphy, Daniel D. Dovidio, Richard Walker. Videotape and written results of polygraph test administered to Bobby Dwan. Dwan arbitration, Jones arbitration, Burgio arbitration, and Williams arbitration. United States v. Robert Brown III, Sylvester Gendraw, Maurice Payne, Donald Cook, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, criminal docket 99–10383. United States v. Robert Brown III, U.S. District Court, District of Maine, criminal docket 04–12. Letters written in 2006 by Peter Moulton and other correctional officers at the Cumberland County Jail in Portland, Maine, on behalf of Robert Brown III. Ruling in 2005 by U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young overturning Kenny Conley’s conviction, along with the First Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding the judge’s decision and the U.S. attorney’s decision not to retry Conley on perjury and obstruction of justice charges. Videotape of Harvard Law School forum on Dec. 9, 2000, on police brutality. Videotape of Jan. 27, 2007, gathering at the Florian Hall in Dorchester of friends and family of Kenny Conley.
BOOK: Bennett, In the Ring.
NEWS ARTICLES: Cramer, Maria, “Minority Police Group Cites Race in Disciplinary Action: The Murphy Case Raises Questions,” Boston Globe, Jan. 11, 2008. Dabilis, Andy, “City, Officer Seen Near Settlement in Beating Suit,” Boston Globe, Feb. 9, 1999. Editorial titled “Batterers with Badges,” Boston Globe, Dec. 30, 2007. Gelzinis, Peter, “Cop’s Suspension Appears to Retire Issues of Beating,” Boston Herald, Jan. 30, 2001. Latour, Francie, “Two Officers Fined in ’95 Cox Beating,” Boston Globe, Dec. 4, 1999. Latour, Francie, “Criminal Case in Cox Saga Is Closed; No Charges Are Filed in Officers’ Beating,” Boston Globe, Jan. 28, 2000. Latour,