Yvonne Abraham

There was a, I think it, I could be wrong.

It might've been an Yvonne Abraham article on the Boston Globe.

She's doing a lot of them.

Maybe it was Joan Bernanke.

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You know who wrote a great piece about this? Your colleague, Yvonne Abraham.

wrote, you're nodding knowingly.

What'd you think of that piece? Oh

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Sorry about that, folks.

And speaking of that, we had a creator of Tony on yesterday, which Margie and I were lucky enough to see with Hannah, our colleague.

We ended up going to one of those screenings that A24 did with restaurant owners.

So, Yvonne, thank you for being here.

Yvonne Abraham is a columnist for the Boston Globe.

We'll link to her remarkable series in the show notes.

Yvonne, thank you for joining us.

Hi, how are you? We're good.

And Yvonne's latest column asks that question.

Was it necessary, because there's at least some evidence here and testimony about her severe mental health problems, did Cruz, the DA in Plymouth, have to charge her with first-degree murder?

No, I mean, I don't think that Cruz had to do it.

That said, there's always a level of discretion there.

vested with prosecutors on what they charge.

And I think what Yvonne Abraham is pointing out in her column is that even a psychiatrist hired by the prosecutor, a woman by the name of Stacey Fiore.

I'm sorry, I think it's a I think that was the other case.