Solet Campaign: Herald endorses Solet for Middlesex DA
What did you know and when did you know it? That’s a question usually put to criminal defendants and key players in a scandal, not the District Attorney’s office itself.
And it’s the answer to that question that casts serious shade on Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan, running for reelection in the Sept. 1 primary.
State Police Sgt. Scott Quigley, then embedded with the Middlesex DA’s office, crashed his cruiser into a wheelchair van in December 2023, injuring a man inside who died at the hospital a month later. Quigley, now suspended, initially received only a written warning from another state trooper after killing the disabled man.
Further details trickled out. A separate murder trial in Lowell revealed that Quigley may have been drunk at the time of the accident.
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