Posted on 08/29/2006 8:16:11 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Democratic candidate for governor Deval Patrick once joined other pols and lawyers in backing a convicted rapist’s bid for parole, support that is being highlighted on a Web site dedicated to the controversial case.
Patrick is among several high-profile politicians, attorneys and academics quoted on the site supporting Ben LaGuer, a former soldier convicted in 1984 of the vicious rape of a 59-year-old Leominster woman.
“I. . . have serious misgivings about the integrity of the criminal justice system in this case, as I believe any citizen would,” the site quotes Patrick as saying.
A spokesman confirmed Patrick’s support of LaGuer but said Patrick has not followed the case closely in recent years.
The state’s highest court is slated to decide this fall whether LaGuer should get a new trial because authorities withheld reports from defense attorneys that show fingerprints taken from a phone in the victim’s apartment did not match LaGuer.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...
Laguer has a website: http://www.benlaguer.com/
Deval believes in strict quotas of paroles by race.
The largest Black Church in Boston is not backing him because he is too Liberal.
Is Ben LaGuer any kin to Willie Horton?
The Boston Globe published a push-poll yesterday saying Patrick was in the lead in the Democratic primary. I think Gabrielli (sp?) will win the primary and probably the Governership.
How is his name pronounced?
Even when he was polling in single digits many moons ago, I had a feeling D. Patrick would be the Dem nominee.
The Dem candidate? First name is Duh-val.
The person in prison, I am not sure. I have not "heard" his name, just read it.
Perhaps that will make Healey more attractive. Right now she seems to be running a nothing campaign (not that Romney has helped her much).
Yeah, I was talking about the candidate. My first inclination was to pronounce it "devil", but I thought no parent could be that mean.
The local Fox station yesterday aired a helicopter flying over the homes of the candidates. I missed (I assume) Gabrielli's as I caught the segment after it had begun. But Healey and Patrick have these massive spreads while O'Reilly rents a room in a house in Watertown; his wife's family, it was said, has a place on Cape Cod but the station couldn't locate it.
Correction to Reilly, not O'Reilly.
Well that proves it. What I'm not sure but it sure sounds like Boston media.
The funny thing is after the segment, the female anchor made a comment to her co-anchor regarding the person who did the segment. She said something like "I wonder if Joe would like helicopters flying over his house..."
Why didn't they fly over Mihos' mansion in Barnstable? That property makes Healey's in Beverly, and Patrick's in Milton look like a modest blue collar household.
In the immortal words of Mr. T, "I pity the fools".
Maybe they did, I caught the segment after it begun so I probably missed Gabrielli's and Mihos'.
BTW, what was shown of Patrick's was not in Milton -- it was in the western part of the state and very posh. Healey's is under construction, IIRC, so it may be a second place to the one in Beverly.
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