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The lawyer for gangster James “Whitey” Bulger has asked that his high-profile trial be put off for a year beyond its scheduled Nov. 5 date, saying they “cannot possibly be prepared” on time. “Indeed,” lawyer J.W. Carney Jr. said in a 17-page filing Wednesday night, “to maintain that date will eviscerate the defendant’s rights to due process of law and to effective assistance of counsel under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Federal Constitution.” The court-appointed Carney and his team of lawyers have maintained since Bulger’s arrest in June 2011 that they have been inundated with voluminous evidence in the decades-old case, and that the notorious gangster will certainly go to trial to face racketeering charges, including accusations of murder.
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