Bulger lawyer: Jury should decide immunity claim

BOSTON (AP) — A lawyer for reputed gangster James “Whitey” Bulger has told a judge a jury should decide Bulger’s claim he had immunity to commit crimes from a former federal prosecutor.

But attorney J.W. Carney Jr. also said Wednesday outside court Bulger wasn’t an informant. Carney didn’t explain why Bulger would’ve had immunity if he hadn’t helped federal law enforcement officials as an informant. Carney said he’d answer that at Bulger’s trial.