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FIRST ON FOX – Matthew Nilo returned to a Boston courtroom Thursday as his protection stated it might be “inappropriate” to take a DNA swab from the New Jersey-based lawyer, who has been accused of sexually assaulting or raping at the very least eight ladies within the Boston space in 2007 and 2008.
Nilo appeared in Suffolk County courtroom along with his fiancée on Thursday for a movement listening to. After greater than 16 years, authorities in March linked his DNA to proof discovered on the numerous crime scenes in Boston and Charlestown, the place Nilo, now 35, is accused of assaulting eight ladies between 2007 and 2008, when he would have been 19 or 20 years outdated.
“The protection nonetheless owes us plenty of data. And our place is: we should always … have all that data earlier than the courthouse makes a ruling on conducting an invasive automobile swab of our consumer,” Nilo’s lawyer, Joseph Cataldo, advised Fox Information Digital of Thursday’s listening to, referring to a DNA pattern that the Commonwealth desires to take instantly from the suspect’s mouth. “We predict it is inappropriate now to conduct such a search.”
Cataldo argued that the proof the state is “relying upon is tainted by the unlawful search within the first place, which was performed in New York” with “the warrantless search and seizure of tableware and DNA.”
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Matthew Nilo seems in courtroom on the Suffolk County Superior Courthouse in Boston on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. Nilo faces prices for a string of rapes and sexual assaults between 2007 and 2008. (David McGlynn for Fox Information Digital)
FBI Boston Particular Agent In Cost Joe Bonavolonta stated in Might that Nilo’s arrest was “the direct results of the FBI’s use of investigative genetic family tree,” which he described as “a novel methodology used to generate new leads in unsolved intercourse assaults, homicides and different violent crimes.”
Prosecutors revealed throughout a listening to in June that investigators matched a DNA profile left on the three rape victims to the profile of at the very least certainly one of Nilo’s family members that had been uploaded to a public genetic family tree database on-line. They apparently matched that DNA to a pattern obtained from a consuming glass Nilo used at a company occasion in New York.
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Nilo was initially charged in Might with three counts of aggravated rape, two counts of kidnapping, one rely of assault with intent to rape and one rely of indecent assault and battery.
Matthew Nilo and fiancée Laura Griffin sit inside Suffolk County Superior Courthouse in Boston on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. Nilo seems in courtroom for a movement listening to as he faces prices for a string of rapes and sexual assaults between 2007 and 2008. (David McGlynn for Fox Information Digital)
In July, a Suffolk County, Massachusetts grand jury indicted Nilo on seven further prices, together with one rely of rape, one rely of aggravated rape, three counts of assault with intent to rape and two counts of indecent assault and battery.
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“The commonwealth is claiming that they’ve some connection between Mr. Nilo and DNA from 15 years in the past, however that proof was presumably taken from tableware in New York and not using a warrant and looking it for DNA,” Cataldo stated, including that the alleged DNA proof was “taken with out his data or consent or, most significantly, and not using a warrant.”
“We want that data earlier than we begin forcing Mr. Nilo to start out present process bodily searches,” the lawyer stated.
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Within the years after 2008, Nilo went on to get his bachelor’s diploma from the College of Wisconsin – Madison and labored two years as a paralegal earlier than transferring on to the College of San Francisco Faculty of Legislation. From there, Nilo labored on the Clyde & Co. legislation agency in San Francisco, Atheria Legislation in New York Metropolis and at last at Cowbell Cyber in New York, in accordance with his LinkedIn web page.
Matthew Nilo and his fiancée, Laura Griffin, depart the Suffolk County Superior Courthouse in Boston on Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. Nilo is in courtroom for a movement listening to as he faces prices for a string of rapes and sexual assaults between 2007 and 2008. (David McGlynn for Fox Information Digital)
The suspect apparently obtained engaged to his fiancee, who has appeared at each certainly one of Nilo’s hearings to date, simply weeks earlier than his arrest, in accordance with his social media.
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Nilo was fitted for a GPS monitor and launched on $500,000 bail from the Suffolk County Jail on June 15 following his arraignment and a bail listening to.
Matthew Nilo, proper, is arraigned on rape prices stemming from assaults in Charlestown, in 2007 and 2008 in Suffolk Superior Court docket in Boston, Monday, June 5, 2023. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe through AP, Pool)
One in every of his accusers, Lori Pinkham, advised reporters on June 15 earlier than his launch that she feared Nilo could possibly be a hazard to the group if he was allowed out on bail.
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Pinkham, who stated she was working as a bar supervisor in Cambridge on the time of the 2007 assault, alleged that Nilo compelled her right into a automobile at gunpoint close to Authorities Heart in downtown Boston.
Cataldo questioned what he described as “the suspicious nature during which the DNA was recovered, however we’ll get to that in the end” in feedback to reporters on the Suffolk County Superior Court docket on June 15.
Audrey Conklin is a digital reporter for Fox Information Digital and FOX Enterprise. E mail tricks to audrey.conklin@fox.com or on Twitter at @audpants.
