Charged With Perjury, Brighton Man Keeps Submitting 'Not Guilty' Forgery: DA

Boston, MA - A Boston man accused of forging his court documents to read "not guilty" and already facing up to two decades in prison has continued offering the false papers in order to clear his name, according to the Suffolk County District Attorney.

According to a press release from the DA, Brighton real estate broker David Scher, 33, was again arraigned Friday on charges of perjury and uttering a false document - but only after a warrant was issued. 

According to the DA's press release, a default warrant was issued for Scher and he was taken into custody. "He refused to enter the courtroom for his arraignment," planting himself instead in the criminal clerk’s office at Suffolk Superior Court, the release said. Under Massachusetts law, a warrant for someone's arrest can be issued if they fail to appear a court date.

Scher was previously charged with tampering with a court document, forgery, perjury, and two counts of uttering a false document in a related case.

A little history in understanding this latest conviction: The DA's office said Scher was convicted of larceny in Boston Municipal Court in 2014 for stealing a laptop from Suffolk University Law School, where he had been a student. He was given a 90-day prison sentence, which a judge delayed for a two-year probationary period.

During that probation period, prosecutors say Scher replaced a copy of his jury slip from that case with a forgery which checked the "not guilty" box. His previous charges of forgery, perjury, etc., stem from him allegedly presenting the doctored slip in court and to Suffolk University officials as genuine. 

In court Friday, Scher was arraigned on similar charges, after allegedly submitting the forged jury slip to the Board of Registration of Real Estate Brokers and Salespersons. The board was in the process of revoking Scher's broker's license for failing to report his conviction to them and  for "the moral turpitude demonstrated by his larceny conviction," according to the DA's press release.

He is scheduled to return to court June 21.