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    • Who is Jack Atwood, lawyer for Davie Jerome, accused of Plymouth death?
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    Who is Jack Atwood, lawyer for Davie Jerome, accused of Plymouth death?

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    PLYMOUTH – From a man convicted of raping and killing his 13-year-old Kingston neighbor to a Carver mother found not guilty of killing her 3-year-old son by reason of insanity, the attorney appointed to represent Plymouth man charged with murder has a long list of high-profile clients spanning several decades.

    Plymouth attorney Jack Atwood has been practicing since 1972 and has been counsel in several highly publicized cases. Atwood typically handles these cases as a court-appointed attorney.

    In 1991, he represented Henry Meinholz, who was convicted of raping and killing his 13-year-old Kingston neighbor. In 2003, he defended Pamela Murphy, a drunk driver who hit and killed 13-year-old Melanie Powell of Marshfield, the namesake of “Melanie’s Law.”

    He defended Helen Kirk, the Carver mother who killed her 3-year-old son in 2005 and was later found not guilty by reason of insanity. He is currently David Jerome’s attorney.

    David Jeromecharged with murder in Plymouth parking lot shooting

    Atwood represents David Jerome, who was driving his Toyota Rav4 with his 18-month-old son in a car seat shortly before 6 p.m. on October 25 when he was involved in an accident with Brent Berkeley, 41, who was driving his Jeep. Berkeley, who was shot several times in the ensuing altercation, died.

    Jerome was prosecuted in Plymouth District Court on Mondays. He is charged with one count each of murder, discharging a firearm within 500 feet of a building, recklessly endangering a child, improper storage of a firearm, negligent operation of a motor vehicle, improper storage of ammunition and possession of a high-capacity weapon. feeding device.

    Marcelo Almeidaconvicted of murdering girlfriend in Marshfield

    Atwood was the court-appointed attorney for Marcelo Almeida, an undocumented immigrant from Brazil who was charged with murder for stabbing his 24-year-old girlfriend, Patricia Frois, in 2011 at their Marshfield apartment complex. Atwood, at the time, said Almeida’s actions were not calculated and looked more like involuntary manslaughter.

    Almeida was convicted of first-degree murder in 2015. In an appeal, Almeida argued that he deserved a new trial because the judge who oversaw the first had given poor instructions to the jury and had failed to control prosecutors when they presented evidence about the murder. from Almeida. history of fights with Frois, which he claims prejudiced the jury against him. In 2018, the state Supreme Judicial Court upheld the first-degree murder conviction.

    Michael Beaudrycleared of murder charge over death of Weymouth father

    Atwood represented Michael Beaudry, who was tried for manslaughter, assault and battery over the death of his father in Weymouth.

    Beaudry was arrested in February 2013 after police found him outside his home holding a shirt to his father’s bloody head and pleading for help. His father, Ronald Beaudry, 58, was taken to South Shore Hospital and died a short time later.

    Prosecutors said Beaudry hit his father in the head with a plastic pipe and knocked him to the ground after an argument over a BB gun. In 2014, a jury acquitted Beaudry of involuntary manslaughter, assault and battery.

    Helen Kirkfound not guilty in death of 3-year-old son in Carver

    Atwood represented Helen Kirk, who later changed her legal name to Helen McLaughlin, a Carver woman who was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the death of her 3-year-old son.

    Helen Kirk told police she believed her son Justin was “the devil” after she strangled the boy in March 2005.

    Kirk waived her right to a jury trial and a judge found her not guilty by reason of insanity. She was admitted to Taunton State Hospital.

    Mark O’Brienconvicted of murder in Plymouth

    Atwood represented Mark O’Brien, a South Boston man who was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after a jury found him guilty of murder in the gruesome 2015 death of a Marshfield man.

    O’Brien and two other men, Michael Moscaritolo, of Quincy, and James W. Ferguson, of Stoneham, planned a robbery that ended with the death of Robert McKenna, who was found dead in a pool of blood in his Marshfield kitchen in September. 2015.

    When the robbery went wrong, McKenna was pushed out a window, an artery in his arm was severed and he was hit over the head with a frying pan.

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