Boston lawyer acquitted of drug charges
In 2007, Kevin L. Barron, a federal criminal defense lawyer in Boston, was accused of smuggling 4.8 grams of heroin into a prison for his client. If you read the original article above, there didn't seem to be much doubt he was guilty:
Kevin L. Barron was being searched by corrections officers at about 5 p.m. yesterday before entering MCI-Cedar Junction when the officers found "small packets of a powdery substance" that turned out to be heroin, said Norfolk district attorney's spokesman David Traub.
Except yesterday he was acquitted of the charges, Gwen Foxworth, the mother of an inmate at the prison, has pled guilty to planting the drugs on Barron and her fingerprints were found on the package, and Barron's client who was accused of selling Barron's address to Foxworth has pled guilty to delivering a controlled substance to an inmate.
With this additional information, maybe Barron could have known about the drugs, but we can also clearly understand how he may not have known. Things are rarely as they seem, or how they are portrayed in the soundbites we get from the media. There is always a deeper story.
H/T to John Wesley Hall
