Posted on 12/04/2007 8:38:24 AM PST by NavVet
In 1985, DuMond was convicted of the rape of a 17-year-old girl with a connection to then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton: She was the governor's distant cousin and the daughter of a major campaign contributor... When Huckabee became governor in 1996, he expressed doubts about DuMond's guilt and said he was considering commuting his sentence to time served. After the victim and her supporters protested, Huckabee decided against commutation. But in 1997, according to the Kansas City Star, Huckabee wrote a letter to DuMond saying "my desire is that you be released from prison." Less than a year later, DuMond was granted parole.
Huckabee's office denied that the governor played a role in the parole board's decision, but there was evidence (exhaustively detailed here) to contradict that claim.
Charles Chastain, a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, who was on the parole board at the time, told CBSNews.com the governor met with the board to argue on DuMond’s behalf.
"He thought DuMond had gotten a raw deal," said Chastain, who calls himself neutral towards Huckabee. "He said he'd been born on the wrong side of the tracks and hadn't been treated all that fairly."
DuMond's release was delayed because a number of states did not want to take him in, but he left prison in 1999 and ended up in Missouri. Not long after he arrived, he was arrested again - this time for sexually assaulting and murdering a woman named Carol Sue Shields. DuMond was also the leading suspect in the rape and murder of another woman. He was convicted of murdering Shields and died in prison in 2005.
(1) He was soft on a dangerous criminal.
(2) He was soft on a dangerous criminal because he was apparently motivated by political animus against President Clinton and not by the actual underlying facts of the case.
He acted like a liberal to get back at a liberal, and now two innocent women are dead.
I remember this case at the time, there were a lot of conservatives who thought the Clintons had been involved in railroading DuMond.
If a democrat did this, we would all be outraged here.
Great is the truth, and it prevails.
The secondary issue here is that CBS are doing us all a big favour by torpedoing Huckabee, though perhaps they don’t realize it.
Turns out he really was a bad-guy.
Yesterday Laura Ingraham read the letter that Huck wrote DuMond.........yep, just another liberal with a bible tucked under his arm.
A lot of people became obsessed with tagging President Clinton with every crime in America and with imaginary crimes as well.
It was just excessive and made some conservatives look like moonbats.
The reality of what the Clintons have documentedly done is damning enough.
I don’t see this working against him in a general election. Huckabee paroled a bad guy. The Clintons PARDONED FALN terrorists who planted bombs.
No comparison.
The Romney’s enemies tried to take him down for a judge he appointed who let a criminal go, but in the Huckster’s case, he personally let the criminal go...Arkansas has contributed enough to the decline of our Republic.
Ping - I can still remember when the Huckster pardoned this pervert against the outcry across the state. Right then I knew there was more to the Huckster than the squeeky clean image he let be shown in public.
I do.
The Clintons PARDONED FALN terrorists who planted bombs.
One, the MSM will not portray both cases equally. Two, unless the Huckabee campaign can show that one of the FALN terrorists murdered and raped two women after he was pardoned, they are at a huge propaganda disadvantage.
January 2004, DuMond was sentenced again to life in prison for the 2000 murder of Carol Sue Shields, 39. Shields was found bound and suffocated "on the bed in the apartment of a man with whom she had been having an affair," Dana Fields said in an AP Online article. DNA evidence, which was found under the victim's nails, linked DuMond to the crime. Aside from the 1985 rape conviction, DuMond had also been previously arrested for sexual assaults in 1972, 1973 and in 1976.
It might not work against him in the general, but it’s not going to help him in the primary with law and order Republicans.
Its not going to have the impact that Huckabee’s insane tuition for illegals is having right now.
Because DuMond was born on the "wrong side of the tracks", Huckabee put DuMond on the wrong side of the FENCE.
I thought the American ideal was that it didn't matter who your parents were, or whether you were rich or poor - every man should be treated equally in the eyes of the law. And Huckabee has softness for certain criminals (including criminal invaders) because of their social background? What is this exactly, more "compassionate conservatism"??
Why oh why does the GOP not have anybody? I guess my top 2 are Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter but they just can’t seem to get traction and I can’t seem to get pumped up about them. Huckabee has kind of that scary Jimmy Carter side where in the name of religion he does a lot of dangerous naive things.
Yeah, that's the way I remember it as well.
Refresh my memory, was this before or after DuMond as castrated? My recollection is that the for a long time the sheriff of St. Francis county had DuMond's testicles displayed in a jar on the sheriff's desk.
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