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Podcast: The Codcast
Episode: Defense attorney: Judge Sinnott 'has no leg to stand on'
Description: The band of right-wing provocateurs who staged a "straight pride" parade in Boston 10 days ago were hoping to stir the pot. But they likely never imagined that the tempest they'd cause would be a judicial showdown among local officials that exposes tensions set off by last year's election of a reform-minded district attorney.
Things got unruly in the streets as the straight pride marchers were met by hundreds of counter-demonstrators, but there wasn't exactly order in the court either when the cases of many of the three dozen counter-protesters who were arrested came before Boston Municipal Court Judge Richard Sinnott.
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