Bernard Baran

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Obliging our readers

Letters to the Boston editor: September 8, 2006
I wanted to thank the Phoenix for running the stirring letter from Nathan Ahlers last week.
By BOSTON PHOENIX LETTERS | September 06, 2006

Gagging Baran’s lawyers — for justice or politics?

First amendment
It took a lot of loud lawyering to finally, after 21 years, get some measure of justice for Bernard Baran, who was convicted in 1985 of molesting children at a day care center and won the right to a retrial in June.
By DAVID S. BERNSTEIN | August 02, 2006

Free at last

Bernard Baran talks about how he survived 21 years in prison and the gay community’s unwillingness to take up his fight
Bernard Baran was released from prison on June 30, and is now free on bail awaiting a new trial. The Baran interview: an extended transcript of Michael Bronski and Catherine Tumber's conversation with Bernard Baran.
By MICHAEL BRONSKI AND CATHERINE TUMBER | July 14, 2006

The Catch-22 of maintaining innocence in prison

By DORI BERMAN, CARRIE LOCK, RICHARD RAINEY, AND LINDSAY TAUB | July 12, 2006

Being gay in western Massachusetts

By RICHARD RAINEY AND LINDSAY TAUB | July 12, 2006

The trials of Bernard Baran

Twenty years ago, a young gay man was convicted of multiple counts of molestation. There is good reason to believe he is innocent.
This story originally appeared in the June 18, 2004 issue of the Boston Phoenix .
By DORI BERMAN, CARRIE LOCK, RICHARD RAINEY, AND LINDSAY TAUB | July 12, 2006

Criminal justice

After 21 years, Bernard Baran finally wins retrial
In an exhaustive and unequivocal recent decision, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge Francis R. Fecteau ordered a new trial for Bernard Baran.
By DUSTIN LEWIS | June 21, 2006