False court statement helped informant avoid deportation Courthouse record of warning found

From: The Boston Globe | Date: May 12, 1994| Author: Sean P. Murphy, Globe Staff | Copyright information

The informant who set up the drug raid in which a retired minister died avoided deportation by falsely asserting in court last year that records concerning his earlier gun conviction had been destroyed.

In fact, the records exist and were examined by the Globe last week in Dorchester District Court.

Their existence raises questions about why a prosecutor and a judge did not try to verify defense claims that they had been destroyed.

Under state law, judges must warn immigra...

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