Judge Carol S. Ball

Residence:

300 Commercial St Apt 613 
Boston, MA  02109
(617)723-2150

Jointly Owned by James B Re (Husband)

James B Re:
http://www.sally-fitch.com/bio/JamesRe.asp
tel: 617-542-5542
jbr@sally-fitch.com

Judge Keeps Twitter Case Records Sealed

 http://www.wbur.org/2011/12/29/twitter-records-sealed

 


              

Judge refuses to quash subpoena of Twitter account used by person linked to Occupy Boston

http://www.boston.com/Boston/metrodesk/2011/12/judge-refuses-quash-subpoena-twitter-account-used-person-linked-occupy-boston/Ok9A0LTVS058ZWkhvqbBhI/index.html


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Carol Stroud Ball

Suffolk Superior Court Judge


home:

Carol S Ball    

(617) 723-9452

  

    

376 Commercial St, Apt 6C

    

Boston, MA 02109-1062

Associated:          James B Re


376 Commercial St Apt 6c, Boston, MA 02109 


◦Monthly Est. Insurance:  $192

◦Monthly Property Tax:  $654

◦Price Per SqFt:  $644

◦Estimated Value:   $659,200

◦Bedroom(s):  2

◦Bathroom(s):  2

◦Square Feet:  1,023

◦Property Type:  Apartment Complex

◦Year Built:  1983

◦Last sold: October 27  for $1    <<<<<lolwut?

◦Heating: Heat pump

◦Price HistoryDateDescriptionPrice% Chg$/sqftSource 

◦10/27/2011Sold$1-100.0%$0Public Record  

◦ 12/16/1988Sold$250,0001,141%$244Public Record  

◦ 08/26/1987Sold$20,150--$19Public Record

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◦but wait she owns another condo?

◦Carol S Ball        

◦617-723-2150

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◦300 Commercial St, Apt 613

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◦Boston, MA 02109-1122

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◦300 Commercial St

◦APT 613

◦Boston, MA 02109

◦  $856,700Rent Zestimate:$3,782/m

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◦Beds: 2Baths: 2Sqft: 1,114Lot: 1,114 sq ft / 0.03 acresType: CondoYear built: 1900Last sold: July 02 1998 for $580,000

◦Price HistoryDateDescriptionPrice% Chg$/sqftSource 07/02/1998Sold$580,00084.1%$520Public Record   06/12/1998Sold$315,000--$282Public Record

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her picture:http://tinyurl.com/cb3p2gj

Date of Birth/Place of Birth 11/30/51 - Bryn Mawr, PA    


Title Associate Justice  


Office Mailing Address

Superior Court Administrative Office

Suffolk County Courthouse, 13th Floor

Three Pemberton Square

Boston, MA 02108




Prior Public Service


Superior Court Law Clerk 1976-1977

Assistant District Attorney, Middlesex County 1977-1985  


Prior Professional Employment


Trial Attorney - Kilburn & Associate 1985-1989 

Solo practice 1989-1992 

Hardoon & Ball 1992-1996  


ADDITIONAL PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE


National Institute of Trial Advocacy Workshops

Faculty Member (1980-present)


Harvard Law School

Teaching Team Leader, Trial Advocacy Workshop (January 1990, January 1995, January 1996)


Northeastern University School of Law

Part Time Faculty Member, Instructor, Criminal Trial Practice (Spring 1984-present)


Massachusetts Bar Association

Member, Civil Litigation Section Council, Member Fee Arbitration Board (1990-1996)


Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education


New England Law Institute

Faculty Member (1984-present)

Preparation of written materials and presentation of numerous civil and criminal law educational programs for practicing attorneys involving evidence and other trial advocacy matters.

Chairman, Criminal Curriculum Policy Committee and Member, Curriculum Policy and Coordinating Committee (1988-1990)


Board of Bar Overseers

Member, Hearing Committee (1986-1992)


Middlesex Multi-Door Courthouse

Case Evaluator (1990-1996)


Greater Lowell ADR

Conciliator (1991-1996)


Suffolk Superior Court Case Evaluation Program

Case Evaluator (1992-1993)


Case Evaluation

(1990-1996)

Mediation and arbitration on an independent basis.


Education


Smith College 1973

Northeastern University Law School 1976  


Bar Admissions


Massachusetts State Courts

United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

United State Supreme Court


Civic Activities


Corporation Member, Old North Church  


Memberships


Womens Bar Association

Massachusetts Bar Association

Boston Bar Association

American College of Trial Lawyers  


Publications


Chief, Law Clerk Committee, Superior Court  


Hobbies/Interests


trial advisory teaching at Northeastern Law School and Harvard Law School.



Honorable Carol S. Ball

Smith College, BA 1973

Northeastern University, JD 1976


Judge  Ball is an associate justice of the Massachusetts Superior Court. For  20 years prior to her appointment to the bench in 1996, she was an  active criminal and civil trial attorney as an assistant district  attorney in Middlesex County and as a criminal defense attorney. She  teaches trial advocacy at the School of Law, as well as at Harvard Law  School, and Criminal Trial Practice.


Appointments

◦Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court, Boston, MA

Practice Information

Associate Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court, Boston

Additional Information

Justice Ball will teach in the Trial Advocacy Workshop during the Winter Term 2012.




she gives a  close freind 2 years probation on a federal corruption charge?:


Richard Vitale, who in June was acquitted in an unrelated federal  corruption case involving DiMasi, is accused of failing to register as a  lobbyist for ticket brokers trying to change the state's anti-scalping  laws, and of making campaign contributions to legislators that exceeded  the $200 limit for lobbyists. Prosecutors also said Vitale negotiated an  illegal "contingency" fee to be paid by the brokers if the legislation  they were seeking was passed.

Vitale pleaded guilty to seven misdemeanor charges in Suffolk  Superior Court. His consulting firm, WN Advisors, also pleaded guilty to  three lobbying violations.

Vitale, 66, will not serve any jail time but was fined the maximum  $32,000 and given two years' probation by Judge Carol Ball. The sentence  also prohibits him from lobbying for the next three years. A separate  agreement with prosecutors requires him to give up the $60,000 he  received from the Massachusetts Association of Ticket Brokers in 2007  and 2008.




A trial, Ball said, would be "a waste of precious, precious court resources, for no good reason."


At the outset of the hearing, Ball explained her decision not to recuse  herself from the case despite having had a friendship with DiMasi and  contributing to his political campaigns before she became a judge in  1996. Ball said that DiMasi was not a party to the case and that she had  never before met Vitale.



Nov. 02--A Suffolk Superior Court judge today tossed an impounded  blueprint of the state’s corruption case against former Probation  Commissioner John J. O’Brien and a top aide to former Treasurer Tim  Cahill back into the lap of Attorney General Martha Coakley to decide  whether or not to release the information to media.

Coakley  spokesman Brad Puffer said the office never opposed the document being  sealed to begin with, but would need to discuss the next move.

Prosecutors  are not required by law to file a statement of their cases, though many  do so as a matter of practice following a grand jury indictment.

Judge  Carol S. Ball said that while she has read the document, and, "I don’t  think there’s a lot in here," other than previously unknown names of  potential grand jury witnesses, she didn’t want it part of the official  court record at this time.

"I truly worry that it violates a  defendant’s right to the presumption of innocence," Ball said. "It is,  in effect, a glorified, court-approved press release. And I have a  problem with that."

Assistant Attorney General Peter Mullin told  Ball his office typically files statements of cases as a helpful "quick  and easy reference" guide for judges and probation officials to refer to  for facts.

"It’s of no use to me," Ball fired back.

O’Brien,  54, who retired Dec. 31 with a $4,738 per-month pension allowance after  30 years with the probation department -- 12 as its leader -- was  charged in September with conspiring with former Cahill confidante Scott  Campbell, 40, to throw Cahill an $11,100 fundraiser in 2005 that  prosecutors allege led to O’Brien’s wife, Laurie O’Brien, 52, landing a  job with the state Lottery.

O’Brien and Campbell, both of Quincy, have pleaded not guilty.

O’Brien’s  lawyer Brendan Pitts acknowledged in court today that in addition to  the state charges, his client is the target of a federal corruption  probe, as well.

Campbell’s attorney, Charles Rankin, said Campbell  is only under investigation by the state. Those charges include  allegations that when Cahill ran for governor last year as an  Independent candidate, Campbell fronted three associates $500 apiece to  cut his boss donations in order to skirt campaign finance restrictions.




rate her work:

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Experience & Credentials   

 


       University     Smith College, A.B.                  

 

               Law School     Northeastern University, J.D.                  

 

               Admitted     1977                  

 

               ISLN     909283559

This is the judge that allow for a secret subpoena of @p0siAn0n, @OccupyBoston and 
the hashtag #d0xcak3.

Subpoena of a hashtag?  Really?  You filthy fascists lack any semblance of probable cause
seeing as "d0xing" - the accumulation of publicly available information - is perfectly legal.  Furthermore, the only reason any LEA would seek to subpoena a hashtag would be to compile a list of outspoken twitter users who are critical of their methods.  This is an attempt to intimidate/silence people who are outspoken critics of police brutality.  

We will not be silenced.  If you act in a corrupt manner - we will expose you.  If you beat us, pepper spray us and arrest us in attempt to remove our constitutional right to free assembly we will call you out.

If you try to subpoena with us false accusations of wrongdoing - we will call you out.

If you attempt to hide your corruption with gag orders - we will call you out.

   

We are anons - we are legion - we are the hydra...

We do not forgive
We do not forget
Expect us