Posted on 11/09/2007 7:36:21 AM PST by ConorMacNessa
HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- A Maryland prison system spokesman said the man who shot and wounded presidential candidate George Wallace in 1972 during a campaign stop has been released.
Link: Wikipedia Entry On Bremer, '72 Shooting
Arthur H. Bremer shot Wallace during a presidential campaign stop in Laurel, Md.
Spokesman Mark A. Vernarelli said Bremer left the prison before sunrise Friday after serving 35 years of his sentence.
Bremer, a former busboy and janitor, was convicted of attempted murder in the shooting and was sentenced to 53 years. He had been held at the medium-security Maryland Correctional Institution near Hagerstown, about 70 miles from Baltimore, since 1979.
"The Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services believes the public's interest, safety and security is best served by allowing Arthur Bremer to become acclimated to today's world at his own pace and with as much anonymity as possible," according to an agency statement.
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If Wallace eventually died of complications due to his attempted assassination, couldn’t this guy be tried again for murder?..........
What many forget is at the time of the shooting, Wallace was gaining in the polls, and the election might have been very different had he not been taken out of it.
He is only 57 years old.
They should have left him rot away the rest of his sentence in prison.
John Hinckley was able to walk around after less than 25 years.
Well, he served more time than most serve for an attempted murder.
Seems to be a trend in the modern age...
A Md. Board of Parole spokesthing was quoted this morning about It deserving release before serving an additional 17.5 years of his sentence. Not one word about the suffering of Governor Wallace or his family; all was about how It is “ready” to return to the world and how interesting it will be for It as the outside world is so different than when It was incarcerated in 1972.
The General of Jodie Foster’s Army has been released?
“he shot Wallace and wounded three others, including a Secret Service agent,”
That is pure B.S.
That’s not cool..................
‘Wallace was gaining in the polls, and the election might have been very different had he not been taken out of it.’
‘That is pure B.S.’
Before posting anything else, I suggest you review the time frame in question.
No it isn’t, but it is revealing.
Governor Wallace (shot in 1972) and Senator Stennis (shot twice in 1973) somehow survived, but Congressman Hale Boggs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hale_Boggs) was killed in a “plane crash” in 1972.
The net effect was that the 3 most conservative Democrats were taken out of national politics, ushering in a full shift to the Left in the Democratic Party.
Whether this effect was deliberate or coincidental is beside the point that the shift to the Left did happen after violence befell the top 3 conservative Dems.
Most state codes have a "year-and-a-day" rule...
(If the victim of the attack or attempt outlives the rule, murder charges cannot be brought...)
Info only...
Not quite. He’s still in St. Elizabeths. He does get 3-4 day visits to his parents several times a year.
He served his time. Now its time to let him out.
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