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(image courtesy of Robb Allen)Officer Maguire was, quite simply, murdered by the Massachusetts criminal "justice" system. Listen to what the goblin that killed him had faced in the MA penal system:WOBURN — They thought they had planned the perfect robbery, authorities say: One of the men would stand lookout while the other, a violent lifelong criminal armed with a gun, would rob the jewelry section of Kohl’s department store, in the midst of a snowstorm, just before closing time. Both men would don ski masks.
But as they fled the store Sunday night with a duffel bag full of jewelry, police officers arrived. A chase and a shoot-out in the parking lot ensued, killing the alleged armed robber and a police officer, a 34-year veteran whose father had once been police chief here.
A paroled career criminal, he had a history of violent theft: two decades ago he was convicted of stealing $86,000 worth of jewels in a downtown Boston store and shooting a security guard in the chest during a scuffle. As a teenager, Cinelli stabbed a man in the chest, police said. Both victims survived.
In 1986, he pleaded guilty to five armed robberies committed after he failed to return from a one-day furlough from the Worcester House of Correction. According to a 2008 Parole Board decision, Cinelli was serving three concurrent life sentences.
The Parole Board released him in March 2009, saying the lifelong drug and alcohol abuser had completed several prison treatment programs for substance abuse and alternatives to violence and earned his GED.
LIFE
SENTENCES
and he was out on the street with a gun.
I can't buy a new 12 round magazine for my Smith & Wesson, but this violent career criminal was let out of jail on a GED and a successful completion of a substance abuse program? Are they for real? As stories like these increase in frequency it will become a spiraling problem - more and more folks are going to disobey the law, because punishment is a joke and actually incarceration is practically non-existent.
When a violent career criminal can skate on a life sentence (and I won't even get into the idiocy of "concurrent" life sentences) after only a decade or two, we marginalize the entire process. We pass more and more laws outlawing this and banning that, in a desperate fool's errand to save us from ourselves; our legislators push for more and more outrageous gun control schemes -= one gun a month, ballistic fingerprinting, etc. - and yet in the end a violent career criminal still managed to get ahold of a firearm. Despite MA laws, despite federal laws, despite all the the roadblocks that are placed on the law-abiding, this violent piece of scum still managed to get a gun with which he killed a police officer over costume jewelry.
The only "good" part of this story is that this piece of shit was killed on the scene.
That is all.
Link sent by PISSED, who apparently feels that enough time has passed since Christmas to get my blood pressure back up...
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Here's how you put an end to this. Any parole board member that votes to parole an individual who then goes on to commit a crime while paroled shall be charged as an accessory to said crime.
And if that officer was murdered by the Massachusetts criminal "justice" system, by extension he was murdered by the taxpayers that live in Massachusetts and pay to support that system.
Move north, smell the purple lilacs.
I love the smell of lilac in the morning.
Smells like...
Justice.
http://www.wmur.com/news/18310496/detail.html
I don't know why you are so surprized. It is easier to harass the law-abiding citizenry than to properly prosecute and incarcerate the criminals.
I can't wait to hear the gun control buffoon's take on this tragedy.
But wait, the cops are invulnerable, and once someone has served his time, he's as pure as the wind-driven snow! Don't you know anything? This story is obviously a fabrication! Wait, cynicism doesn't feel as fulfilling as they said it would...
What is more idiotic, a multiple concurrent life sentences or multiple consecutive life sentences?
Not an expert here, but I thought in some states "life sentence" was actually 20 years.
@genedunn, at least with consecutive life sentences the scumbag wouldn't have gotten out for another 20 years.
Jay,
I did a little digging and have put together a few things. First and foremost, the parole board members are appointed by the Governor with advice from his executive council. After checking up on the 7 board members, I found that 5 of the 7 were appointed by Coupe DeVal. In other words, the blood of Officer Maguire is squarely on Gov Patrick's hands as the piece of shit cop-killer asswipe fucknugget scumbag was released on a UNANIMOUS vote of the board. Let that sink in for a moment . . . a UNANIMOUS VOTE of the board to release a CONVICTED KILLER.
I also heard in the news this morning that some state legislator (didn't catch the name) has proposed a bill to remove parole for convicts serving more than 1 life sentence. MORE THAN ONE. See something wrong here? I do. I'm sure you do as well.
And don't get me started on the proud statement on the parole board web page about how 78% of parolees successfully reenter society. I'd argue that if so many as on parolee reoffends in any manner, the whole program is an abject failure.
This whole thing has got me so pissed off, I am considering heading to Office Maguire's funeral on Friday.
Maybe a Northeast Blogger show of support for the Maguire family at the funeral would be appropriate.
Massachusetts, you're more likely to get whacked by a violent ex-con released by a bunch of ass-wipe, bleeding-heart, do-good, feel-good political appointees with no accountability to anyone other than themselves. If the board members had any sense of self worth, they'd all tender resignations, effective immediately.
Gah.
Word Verify: lithe --> Jack Maguire would be "a-lithe" had the parole board done its job and kept a drug-addicted violent predator in an iron cage, right where he belongs.
- Brad
- Brad
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