Request for records denied in Lincoln-Sudbury murder

By Maria Cramer
Globe Staff

FRAMINGHAM - A Framingham District Court judge today denied a news organization's request to make public items investigators confiscated in connection with a murder case against a Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School student.

GateHouse Media, Inc., owner of the MetroWest Daily News in Framingham, had asked the court to squash a motion to impound the search warrant.

But in his ruling, Justice Paul J. Healy Jr. said releasing documents related to the investigation of 16-year-old John Odgren would compromise the two-week old investigation. Odgren is accused of fatally stabbing James Alenson, 15, inside the school.

"Leads could be altered or destroyed if certain individuals learned of the impounded information, and sources could dry up," Healy wrote. "At this time, it is believed that a blanket impoundment order is necessary to protect the rights of both the defendant and the Commonwealth and that there is no reasonable alternative."

Representatives of GateHouse Media could not immediately be reached for comment.

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