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$22M to help fishermen; Supporters rally around Cape Doctor; Mobster's conviction upheld; Cape fiddle player plies the "B" roads

Supporters rally behind Cape doctor
“I love her, and I’ll do anything I can to help her”

The  doctor accused of shooting her husband to death, portrayed by many as a battered wife driven over the edge, remained in seclusion yesterday as family and friends vowed to stand behind her.   “I love her, and I’ll do anything I can to help her,” said Kristina Gryboski of Maryland. Her sister, popular Cape Cod physician Ann Gryboski, 51, pleaded not guilty to murdering her husband and high school sweetheart, Patrick Lancaster, 50, an avid boater with a notorious temper.

Police reports indicate Gryboski confessed to pumping two bullets into her husband’s stomach on Easter Sunday as he came at her during a fight. She told authorities the brawl began when her son, Christopher Lancaster, 25, became angry at his father over his mother’s visible bruises...  Read the rest of today's Herald story here.  Leave a comment
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Lawyers: Defense must prove lethal force justified
History of domestic violence, medication, past police involvement needed

In order to find that a Cape Cod doctor killed her abusive husband in self-defense, as her legal team will likely argue, a jury must believe that the force she used was equal to that inflicted by her attacker, attorneys said. “Generally if somebody is attacking you with fists, you wouldn’t be allowed to pull out a gun and shoot them,” said Randy Chapman, president-elect of the Massachusetts Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. “However, if the person, based on the savageness of the attack, is fearful that they could be killed, then they’d be entitled to use lethal force.” ...Drew Segadelli, a defense attorney who practices on Cape Cod, said it is sometimes difficult to convince a jury that a defendant’s use of deadly force is justified...  Read the rest of this Herald story here. 
Read Margot Russell's analysis here.  Leave a comment
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Court upholds mobster's conviction
Loaned cops the gun for a Cape Cod robbery

Robert M. “Bobby” Joost, a well-known mob associate from Providence, will not be getting out of prison any time soon.  The 1st Circuit Court of Appeals, in Boston, upheld convictions against Joost in District Court, Providence, for conspiring to obstruct commerce by robbery of an armored car and of being a felon in possession of a firearm.  The verdicts were reached in the mid-’90s and he was sentenced to 26 years in prison.

In April 1995, Joost, of 40 What Cheer Ave., in the Silver Lake section of Providence, was convicted of conspiring to rob a Meehan armored car carrying millions of dollars in gold in northern Rhode Island. In a separate trial in federal court, he was convicted on the gun charge.  What made the case even more compelling was that two of Joost’s accomplices were undercover state police detectives: Steven G. O’Donnell, now a state police major, and Detective Joseph S. Del Prete. At the time, both detectives were assigned to the state police organized crime/intelligence unit...  During the course of their relationship, investigators said, Joost recruited the undercover detectives to rob the Woonsocket-based armored car company. Joost, an ex-convict with financial problems, also was accused of lending the detectives a .25 caliber pistol to rob a nightclub on Cape Cod...  Read the rest of this Providence Journal story here.  Leave a comment
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Old Crow Medicine Show bring a unique sound
And it's the dreamchild of  Cape Codder Ketch Secor

Old Crow Medicine Show's Ketch Secor was crossing America in a 45-mph electric car on his way to Tennessee's Bonnaroo music festival in 2005 when he picked up a hitchhiker in Oklahoma.   "I picked up an Indian hitchhiker about, well, just outside of Okemah," said Secor, who lives in Cape Cod, Mass. "And I took him to Van Buren, Ark., to the soup kitchen, and he was telling me about Pretty Boy Floyd and how he had Indian blood in him, as well, just talking about that landscape and the human landscape that stands on it. That's just really exciting to me."

 Secor, 28, has always taken the "B" roads, something his father did when he was growing up. The result was that he developed an affinity for the last 200 years of American history, drawn from its people's history of blood, sweat, war, religion and sex. ..  Read the rest of this Tulsa World story here.  Leave a comment
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