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Judge skeptical about motive for trial leak

Lawyer fears effect of report

By Maria Cramer

 |  Globe Staff  

  April 11, 2012

A Suffolk Superior Court judge expressed skepticism Tuesday that District Attorney Daniel F. Conley’s office was looking to spin its failure to convict two men in the 2010 Mattapan killings by leaking information about the case to a Globe columnist. The defense attorney for Dwayne Moore, whose case ended in a mistrial, has asked the court to compel Conley’s office to prove that it did not give information to Globe Columnist Brian McGrory.

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