Chief Justice Marshall and Chief Justice for Administration and Management Mulligan have issued a joint statement suspending Probation Commissioner O’Brien
All seven Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court signed an order to this effect
A special master, Paul Ware who also conducted the Big Dig investigation has been appointed the “Special Master” to investigate and report to the Supreme Judicial Court.
Supervision over probation officers and judicial court managers should be returned to the court system, specifically to the Presiding Judge for each court, who are best able to evaluate the needs of the courts where they preside. Removal of that authority appears to me to have been influence peddling and payback at its worst, due to the animus against so-called clean elections by then-speaker Thomas Finneran.
