MA Prosecutor Heard charged with beating girlfriend

BOSTON
SEPTEMBER 2007
A Massachusetts prosecutor is out of a job after allegations of domestic abuse surfaced. The Suffolk County assistant district attorney faces charges for one of the very crimes he normally prosecutes. Melvin Heard, 29, a prosecutor for the district attorney's office for the past two years, has handled cases, including domestic violence, at Dorchester District Court. Now he is an alleged batterer, accused of beating his fiancée multiple times, court documents say. The police reports allege that Heard has attacked his girlfriend twice in the past eight months inside and outside his Boston home. In January, neighbors heard a woman screaming and then heard a couple of thuds and called police. A woman, who asked to not be identified, lives in the apartment below. "It's always around midnight," she said. "You hear crashing and banging. I think he's a hypocrite. He sends people to jail for domestic violence and comes home and does the same thing." In August, the prosecutor's girlfriend told police Heard beat her up and smashed the windshield of her car. In one of the cases, investigators say when police showed up at the couple's home, Heard told his fiancée not to answer any of the officer's questions. Heard was suspended with pay in August. Now he has lost his job with the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office. He faces multiple charges including assault and battery.

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• PROSECUTOR
• DOMESTIC
• VIOLENCE
• MASSACHUSETTS

[cloudriderisadick]

It is amazing that you are such a dick. First, the media never covers these issues after the 'excitement' of an accusation dies down. Second, Mr. Heard was found innocent by a jury of his peers, and has a clean record. I am sure that does not matter to you as you are the judge and jury in this situation, but it should b/c this type of thing can happen to anyone.

[cloudwriter]

And I will repeat that I take you up on your invitation to "let the record show."

Show a record that says "innocent" and I will take this down immediately.

[cloudriderisadick]

Let the record show that in January of 2008, Mr. Heard was acquitted of all charges. Just because a person is accused of wrongdoing does not mean that they are guilty. There is still a concept often referred to as 'due process'. You should look it up sometime. Please take this slanderous hit piece down you prick!

[cloudwriter]

Let WHAT record show?

Please do forward to me a record that shows that everyone was lying except you. (You can't.)

If you send me something that proves you were TECHNICALLY "acquitted" I'll post it with the video description along with your cloudriderisad*ck/pr*ck comment.

I looked in Newsbank and the last article there about you is this one:

Suffolk prosecutor fired after charge of battering gal pal

Boston Herald (MA)

September 8, 2007

[cloudwriter]

I changed the setting comment setting so I'll get notified by email if you post a comment.

[cloudriderisadick]

Ok. I will do so. Remember that the 'news' loses interest once the story is not as sensational so this is why they negelected to pick up the innocent finding.

[jse07]

kill the masonic scum

loosing his job isnt enough