Rosemary Scappiccio
Appearances
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UPDATE: Case Dismissed
She believed this guy was in love with her because that's how screwed up her mind was. But when do we look at the whole picture and say, there's something really wrong here? There's something that we need to do to investigate this, to make sure that no other defendant is either charged or has been convicted based on the conduct of either the drug unit or the gang unit in this case. So...
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
I have another hearing on another homicide right after this, so I won't be right out.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
Judge, I would just ask that the case be dismissed with prejudice.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
The 2017 case, the Commonwealth's agreeing that there was egregious police misconduct in this case. And this has been a long, winding road, as we all know. And I don't think the Commonwealth objects to a dismissal with prejudice.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
Wait a minute, Judge, I'm not going to agree to any of this.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
This isn't what we agreed to. Okay. In terms of making a credibility determination, let's call the witnesses then. Okay. Let's just call all the witnesses. I've been at eight police officers. Let's do it.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
But we weren't prepared to call Carly Medeiros as a witness. We were prepared to rehabilitate her. We were prepared to show that Barbosa lied and committed perjury under oath, and the Commonwealth knows it. So for them to stand here now and say she was not credible, I think is just disingenuous.
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UPDATE: Case Dismissed
And I know at least Officer... Barbosa testified in front of you when he said he hadn't had any contact with Kali Medeiros, and we were here ready to prove that that was a lie, that he perjured himself in front of you, and you based your decision on his perjured testimony, Judge.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
I just wanted to make our position clear. Kali Medeiros was ready to testify. I subpoenaed eight police officers to prove what we think was a pattern of misconduct by the police department in this case, using drug-addicted women for their disposal.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
Tali Medeiros was a drug addict. In her affidavit, she said, every single solitary time I met him, we had sex. That's not a mutually beneficial relationship. That's a cop whose job was to protect and serve, taking advantage of a young drug-addicted woman.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
Well, I mean, I think it was the appropriate thing to do. What got me angry was that the Commonwealth is taking the position that the dismissal was because Carly Medeiros was lying. And I don't think that's the reason for the dismissal at all. I think it was because the police officers were lying, and they knew that we were going to expose their lies.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
Judge Dupuy made a determination that Carly was not credible. She based that on...
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
Barbosa's testimony that he had never been in touch with Kali outside of this one controlled by and that's just not true and and we were ready willing and able to prove that today with not only Kali's testimony but documents and putting Barbosa on the stand and you know ultimately the Commonwealth said enough is enough and they dismissed it so we didn't get the opportunity to do that.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
Egregious misconduct. Not just misconduct. Egregious misconduct.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
What I think should happen, any time that a police officer gets found to have engaged in misconduct, what should be happening with this district attorney's office is they should be going back through every single solitary case that that cop put his hands on and determine whether or not he lied in that case too, if the informant in that case was really an informant, or if this was all based on his sleeping with Kali Medeiros.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
I wouldn't assume that if my life depended on it. I think they should. Ethically, they told us they couldn't go forward on this because of the egregious misconduct, but nobody has notified me that there's a single investigation or that they need anything that we've uncovered in this case.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
They have a vested interest in not exposing these police officers because all of their drug cases and their gang cases depend on it. If these cops are lying, then what happens to all of the pending cases? What happens to the cases that they already testified in? You've got to ask yourself that question. The Commonwealth agreed in this case that it was egregious with Congress.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
So what are you going to do about it? I'm thrilled that they're dismissing the case. It was the right result. But here's the problem. What are you going to do, Commonwealth of Massachusetts? What are you going to do, the police department? What are you going to do, the attorney general's office? What are you going to do, the federal government? Who's going to look into this?
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
Because we don't have the power to do it. Our power was what was going to happen today. And they quashed that by dismissing the case.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
And I've been doing this now 35 years. There is a difference between, in my mind, between a drug-addicted woman and a drug-addicted man. A drug-addicted woman, in my opinion, is much more vulnerable. They're much more inclined to sell their body to get high. And people are much more inclined to take advantage of them.
Spotlight: Snitch City
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
The police are supposed to protect them, not just because you're claiming she was an informant that she never was, but she's a human being who lives in this community. And she has a drug problem. And instead of protecting her, you were using her for sex? And this poor woman describes the relationship as, you know, he was in love with me.