A Boston federal judge on Monday refused accused mobster James "Whitey" Bulger’s lawyers’ bid for permission to be more open with the press.
U.S. District Judge Denise Casper denied Bulger’s motion to vacate her June 3 order barring the defense from violating a local rule about what lawyers in criminal cases can say to news reporters. The rule limits lawyers to public statements that “quote from or refer without comment to public records of the court.”