LaBrie’s trial is also slated to start this month.
Attorney Randy S. Chapman, who served as one of the defense lawyers for a hearing under Lu, referred to him as “extraordinarily fair.”
“He’s very patient and soft spoken,” Chapman continued. “He allows the lawyers to try the case but will control the pace of it.”
Before becoming a judge, Lu served as both a trial lawyer with a private practice and as a Massachusetts public defender, specializing in, among other practices, felonies and drug crimes, according to an online database of lawyers and judges run by LexisNexis.
As a trial lawyer, he worked on several double murder cases.
Lu served as a justice of the Boston Municipal Court—a general jurisdiction trial court—from 2001 to 2006. In 2006, the governor appointed Lu to the Massachusetts Superior Court.
Lu graduated from Johns Hopkins University in 1981 and from Boston University School of Law in 1984. He is currently an adjunct professor of law at the New England School of Law.
He is a member of the Asian American Lawyers Association.
—Staff writer Kerry M. Flynn can be reached at kflynn@college.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Hana N. Rouse can be reached at hrouse@college.harvard.edu.