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Runaround was as adventurous as judge’s ride home
By Howie Carr | Friday, May 1, 2009 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists

It’s not that every Massachusetts judge is bad. The problem comes from that 98 percent of the judiciary that give the other 2 percent such a terrible reputation.

So now we have - finally - the official Lexington PD report on the OUI arrest of Superior Court Judge Christine McEvoy. She ingested a bad ice cube at a 99 Pub on April 15 and then began swerving all around 128 even before she exited in Lexington.

And what is it about 128 between Needham and Lexington - it’s a veritable Bermuda Triangle for the Massachusetts judiciary. Remember Appeals Court Judge Joe Trainor, a career hack and longtime coatholder for Felon Finneran - 128 is where they bagged Judge Joe a few years back.

Yeah, and they threw the book at Trainor too. Another judge allowed him to do his 16-week “drunk school” obligation in one weekend - in New Hampshire.

You can already see the way the McEvoy case will play out just by the runaround they put us through to get the report. First we called the Lexington PD, who bumped us to the Middlesex DA, who bumped us to the Essex DA, who told us the only way we get the report was to go out to the Concord court, Christine’s old stomping grounds.

The Herald’s Laurel Sweet finally got the incident report, and you already know how Officer Mercer said, “I held on to McEvoy as we walked to the booking room as she was unsteady while walking or standing. During this whole time, I had noticed McEvoy’s slurred speech.”

Odd, because she claimed she had consumed only a “couple glasses of wine.” Several country songs come to mind here. Drinkin’ doubles don’t make a party. What made Milwaukee famous has made a loser out of her.

At least she didn’t ask, “Do you know who I am?” As far as we know, anyway.

God bless one Stephen Smith Jr. He’s the motorist who observed the esteemed jurist’s “erratic” driving on 128, made the call to the staties and then convinced a Lexington cop to follow her after she veered off the highway and onto a town street. I just hope Mr. Smith doesn’t find himself in front of any local hack judge anytime soon.

Here’s some more on the judge’s behavior after she was stopped. A cop went over and knocked on the window of her 2007 Audi. The judge “did not react for a few seconds and then opened the door. I asked her to roll down her window so I could speak with her. She rolled the window down, but left the door open.”

Good luck, Judge McEvoy, but you won’t need any. I’ll bet you get a judge just as tough as the one Judge Trainor got.
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