The controversy surrounding the Jared Remy case continues as Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan defends withholding 19 pages from an independent report.
D.A. Ryan says those pages only included conversations with independent reviewers that bared no weight on the question at hand.
"There would be something when somebody seeks to hide something ... the only sensible solution to that is that there was something to be hidden. I suggest that when you look at those pages, you're going to see that there's nothing there," she siad.
NECN obtained the pages through a Freedom of Information Act request, to which the district attorney's office responded, releasing the report in its entirety.
For Jared Remy's defense attorney, Edward Ryan, handing over the pages doesn't remove the ethical questions.
"It's shocking. I think her integrity is called into question regardless of her motivations. Here's the simple fact: We know that she withheld documents that should have been disclosed. These excuses that are being proffered now are disingenuous," he said.
Those this latest revelation changes nothing with the outcome of the case, it comes at a time when the D.A.'s office was already under fire for the release of Remy while he was in custody after a domestic dispute with his girlfriend and victim, Jennifer Martel. Remy murdered Martel days later.
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"I can't speak to what people think. What I can speak to is that as the leader of this office, it's my responsibility - and I never will be in a position of putting my staff in front of me to take that responsibility rather than taking it myself," D.A. Ryan said.
Remy, the son of Red Sox broadcaster Jerry Remy, changed his plea to guilty in May in last year's brutal stabbing death of Martel.
