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Former FBI agent John Morris, a prosecution witness, and an unidentified woman entered the John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston. The long-awaited trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, who evaded an FBI hunt for 16 years before his arrest in 2011, began June 4 with opening statements from prosecutors and defense attorneys. Bulger is accused of committing or ordering 19 murders while running a Boston crime gang in the 1970s and ’80s.
Whitey Bulger trial
Former FBI agent John Morris, a prosecution witness, and an unidentified woman entered the John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston. The long-awaited trial of James “Whitey” Bulger, who evaded an FBI hunt for 16 years before his arrest in 2011, began June 4 with opening statements from prosecutors and defense attorneys. Bulger is accused of committing or ordering 19 murders while running a Boston crime gang in the 1970s and ’80s.
Prosecution witness Ralph DeMasi was outside federal court on June 20.
Donald Milano left court with a group of women on June 20. Milano’s brother Michael was killed in 1973.
Steven Davis (left) shook hands with Tommy Donahue outside Moakley Courthouse. Both are family members of alleged Bulger victims.
Christine Cornell's sketch from the Whitey Bulger trial.
Jane Collins's sketch from the Whitey Bulger trial.
Former bookmaker Richard O'Brien left the John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse after testifying in the Whitey Bulger trial on June 17.
Former hit man John Martorano appeared in court in Miami in 2008. He served 12 years in prison after a plea deal and admitted killing 20 people, and appeared in court in Boston on June 17 to testify in the Bulger trial.
This undated photo was presented as evidence on June 13 and shows several weapons from an arsenal that investigators say Bulger and his gang owned.
This 1980 black and white surveillance photo was presented as evidence during the first day Bulger’s trail. The photo shows Bulger, center, with Ted Berenson, left, and Phil Wagenheim at a Lancaster Street garage in Boston's North End.
Thomas J. Foley, retired colonel of the Massachusetts State Police, spearheaded the Whitey Bulger investigations. He spoke outside the Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse on June 13.
Defense attorney J.W. Carney Jr. talked to reporters as he arrived at the John Joseph Moakley US Courthouse for the start of the Bulger trial on June 12.
Stephen Davis, the brother of alleged Bulger victim Debra Davis, arrived for the first day of the trial. Davis’s sister disappeared on Sept. 17, 1981, and was strangled to death.
Jackie Bulger, Whitey Bulger’s brother, arrived at the courthouse for the start of the trial.
Tom Donahue, whose father is an alleged Bulger victim, arrived at the courthouse. Bulger’s lawyers had attempted to limit testimony from victims’ families, but prosecutors made the case for calling at least one family member of each of the 19 alleged victims.
This courtroom sketch depicted James "Whitey" Bulger at the beginning of jury selection for his trial on June 4.
A small caravan of two vehicles turned off an access road from the Plymouth House of Correction to transport James Whitey Bulger to the Moakley courthouse for the opening day of jury selection in his trial. The vehicles arrived in South Boston about 7:50 a.m. on June 4, and the SUV (front car) was seen driving to the back side of the courthouse while the sedan stayed outside on the street.
The caravan of vehicles headed to the federal courthouse on the first day of Bulger’s trial, which began with jury selection.
Whitey Bulger sat in the back seat of a Plymouth County Bureau of Criminal Investigation SUV with glasses on as he arrived at Moakley Courthouse.
A courtroom sketch depicted James "Whitey" Bulger during a pretrial conference before US District Judge Denise Casper in a federal courtroom on June 3. Bulger was flanked by his attorneys Henry Brennan (left) and J.W. Carney Jr. (standing).



