Charlestown Man's Domestic Assault Conviction Reinstated
This article was submitted by the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office.
The Massachusetts Appeals Court this week reinstated a Charlestown man’s conviction for beating the mother of his child after a municipal court judge allowed the man to withdraw it in 2010, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said. The unpublished decision, released Tuesday, Nov. 27, vacates the decision by Boston Municipal Court Judge Raymond Dougan Jr., allowing Carlos Pena, 49, to withdraw his May 7, 2009, admissions to assault and battery, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, and two counts of threatening to commit a crime. Judge Paul Leary, now retired, sentenced Pena on that date to two years in a house of correction with six months to serve and the balance suspended for two years, along with two years of …
