Description: Testimony continues in Judiciary Committee hearing on removal of Superior Court Chief Justice Robert Bonin. Bonin answers questions from Sen. Alan Sisitsky, Reps. Roland Orlandi, Paul White, James Segel. Bonin's wife Angela listens.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/25/1978
Description: Testimony in Judiciary Committee hearing on removal of Superior Court Chief Justice Robert Bonin. Sen. Alan Sisitsky presides. Attorney Paul Sugarman gives lengthy defense.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/25/1978
Description: Judiciary Committee hearing on removal of Superior Court Chief Justice Robert Bonin. Attorney Paul Sugarman answers members' questions. Rep. Max Volterra in audience. Judge Bonin testifies on own behalf, defending behavior under question: hiring three secretaries and attending Gore Vidal lecture on gay rights to benefit a defense fund.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 07/25/1978
Description: Suffolk County District Attorney Garrett Byrne gives press conference to ask Chief Justice Robert Bonin to remove himself from child sexual abuse case because of involvement in fundraising for defendant.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 04/06/1978
Description: State Sen. George Rogers of New Bedford convicted of corruption (bribery and conspiracy via fraudulent $5000 consulting contract in vocational education scandal) in Suffolk Superior Court. Defense attorney Sullivan mobbed by press. Rogers fainted in court and is wheeled out on stretcher. Prosecutor Stephen Delinsky says sentence is fair. Rogers will serve time in Barnstable House of Correction. Sullivan will appeal. Glimpse of Gail Harris.
Collection: Ten O'Clock News
Date Created: 08/24/1978