Massachusetts law states the statute of limitations on sexual assault is 15 years, why hasn't this case been approached yet?
- Rape: 15 years time limit.
- Assault with intent to commit rape: 15 years time limit.
- Conspiracy to commit or accessory of rape/assault with intent to commit rape: 15 years time limit.
- Armed robbery or Conspiracy to commit crime/accessory to crime: 10-year time limit.
Ms. James needs her job back to protect her pension and add to it. What I don't understand is why Russell was never apprehended for sexual assault?
By Ivy Scott
Malden - A decade ago, Brenda James lost her job (click here) at the Boston Police Department after nearly 20 years as an officer. Despite myriad legal setbacks, she never abandoned her fight to be reinstated and finally tell her side of the story in full.
Two weeks ago came the moment James, 59, had been awaiting for years, as she stood before a panel at the state’s Division of Administrative Law Appeals in Malden and gave her version of the night Captain Paul Russell allegedly stormed up behind her in his office and tried to wrestle her gun out of its holster.
His behavior “did not follow protocol,” James testified. “As a Black woman, I felt extremely nervous and uncomfortable in that situation.”
After that altercation in June 2012, James was never permitted to return to work. In a department where Black officers are disciplined at a disproportionate rate, James worries her ouster is another example of a culture that reflexively defends high-ranking, white male officials. Her prolonged legal fight, she said in an interview, is evidence of the department’s determination to “keep sweeping things under the rug so they never get properly addressed.”...
