Posted on 06/28/2006 9:36:57 AM PDT by edzo4
Judge bemoans lack of driver ed for illegal who killed man By O’Ryan Johnson Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - Updated: 01:03 AM EST
A Salem woman whose longtime friend and tenant was killed by an illegal alien driving without a license says she is shocked a judge not only reduced the man’s sentence, but took time to lament the lack of driver’s training for illegals during the sentencing.
Alex Costa, 28, of Peabody pleaded guilty to striking and killing Richard Golin, 49, and was sentenced to nine months. But Judge Robert Cornetta turned him over to immigration agents Monday for deportation to Brazil with only 163 days served.
Cornetta reportedly used the occasion to decry the fact that illegal immigrants don’t have access to driver training, saying it raised public policy concerns.
“What we will never know is whether Mr. Costa had some kind of driver training, if perhaps this tragedy would never have occurred,” the judge said, according to the Salem News. He could not be reached last night.
Mullen, 68, who took in Golin as a boarder 20 years ago, was outraged over Cornetta’s comments.
“He’s not even supposed to be in this country,” an exasperated Mullen said about Costa.
She said Golin was a beloved neighborhood figure. “My mother lived to be 106 and a half and she loved Richie. He used to say ‘Hi Girdie,’ and she’d say ‘Hi Richie.’ She never forgot his name.”
Unreal.
its alright the democrats just told me that this illegal was only running down the elderly american citizens that americans won't run down : )
More lives ruined thanks to our insane open-borders policy and the enablers who support it.
Just another in the ever growing list of judges who need to be taken off the bench.
I see. So I suppose the drowining death of MaryJo Kopechne could have been prevented if Ted Kennedy had taken scuba diving lessons. This is just more passing the back and assigning Zero responsibility to the one who committed the crime. It makes me want to puke.
omg judge just rule if you must but keep your inane personal opinion commentary to yourself at least while you are on the bench.
Apparently the Kops stop illegals driving unregistered, uninsured cars all the time in Massachusetts and let 'em go. Almost all uninsured cars are driven by illegals in the PRM. (sigh.)
Can you imagine going to Canada or England or France(!) and driving around in an unregistered, uninsured car? Sheesh. Only having the accidents Americans won't have.
As a demonstration on FOX 25, a cop in some town (not one with heavy infestations like Framingham) took a reporter and cameraman on patrol and said that the first car he stopped would be an unregisterd illegal. It took two hours, but he made good. Think about it. A cop in a relatively "white" town in a "white" state can go out and reel in an illegal, driving an unregistered car in two hours, any time he wants.
Driver's Ed -- is that all he's complaining about? Gee, I bemoan the fact that we can't elect an illegal alient POTUS.
< /sarcasm >
In Nashville not long ago, a driver with "dozens" of arrests for intoxication hit and killed a couple. Supposedly it was never reported or picked up on that he was in the US illegally.
errr ahhhh I think I needed some scuba driving instructions, burp... where is my dog splash?
Does the perp even speak English?
This is happening in other states as well. I have a nephew who quit the police force because of what he was being told during training by his mentor in the police department. He was told if you stop an illegal on the wrong side of the road, drunk driving, for any reason whatsoever, let the illegal go. He couldn't handle this type of attitude towards the law being broken and left the police force.
This judge should be fair game, especially for those of us who did have drivers ed.
Its called anarcho-tyranny - the law is only enforced against people trying not to break it...
I certainly do not care much for Bill O'Reilly but I will give him credit for shining light on the scum that is dressed in judicial robes. Here, I am surprised that a Boston paper would call attention to this sorry excuse for an officer of the court. I believe it only goes to show what bad shape our court system must be in when you can read about in the Boston Herald.
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