Botsford confirmed

But, as AP notes, "it didn't come easy."

The Lawrence Eagle-Tribune tracked down the cop who was shot in 1991. The guy who shot him got 10 years, prompting some, including at least one Governor's Council member to call her a "soft on crime."

At her four-hour hearing Wednesday, she and others in the legal community said she was mainstream in her sentencing and defended her against charges that she was soft on criminals.

The Boston Globe also weighed in this morning in support.

Two other things:

--To answer the Cambridge Politics blog's question: It was the Blacksmith House.

--And another random bit I stumbled upon while Googling Botsford the night her appointment was announced via the Globe and an AP Newsbreak: An October 2006 comment on the Health Care For All Blog.

The blog had posted about an event honoring Botsford's husband, Steve Rosenfeld, and had high praise.

But a commenter, signed in as "Margot Botsford" had this clearly tongue-in-cheek, witty post below:

These are nice comments, but who do you think gets up at 6 am to walk the dogs? Not Himself. There he is, snoozing away. And I wish he’d remember to put food out of reach of those dogs. A whole plate of smoked salmon, gone, because of his carelessness. Believe me, he’s not perfect.