A Norfolk judge has acquitted a Boston lawyer of charges he sought to deliver heroin to an inmate at MCI-Cedar Junction in Walpole.
Kevin L. Barron was accused of trying to smuggle the drug to a client after correction officers performed a routine search as he visited the prison two years ago and found small packets containing 4.8 grams of heroin hidden in a package he was carrying.
Judge Janet Sanders ruled Monday that prosecutors did not prove Barron knew there was heroin inside the package.
“I am innocent, and I would like to regain what was once a good reputation,’’ Barron said told the Globe.
In June, Gwen Foxworth, the mother of an inmate at the prison, pleaded guilty to inserting the heroin into three deep holes on the left side of a legal brief in the package, prosecutors said. Her fingerprints were found on the package, they said.
Wolf Fevrier, Barron’s client, who was accused of accepting $1,000 in exchange for providing Foxworth with Barron’s address, also pleaded guilty to delivering a controlled substance to an inmate, prosecutors said.
