From an AP release:
Clemmons also recently was arrested and charged in Pierce County in Washington state for third-degree assault on a police officer, and second-degree rape of a child.
Posted on 11/29/2009 6:16:16 PM PST by Charles Henrickson
Maurice Clemmons, the 37-year-old Tacoma man being sought for questioning in the killing of four Lakewood police officers this morning, has a long criminal record punctuated by violence, erratic behavior and concerns about his mental health.
Nine years ago, then-Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee granted clemency to Clemmons, commuting his lengthy prison sentence over the protestations of prosecutors.
"This is the day I've been dreading for a long time," Larry Jegley, prosecuting attorney for Arkansas' Pulaski County said Sunday night when informed that Clemmons was being sought in connection to the killings.
Clemmons' criminal history includes at least five felony convictions in Arkansas and at least eight felony charges in Washington. The record also stands out for the number of times he has been released from custody despite questions about the danger he posed.
Clemmons had been in jail in Pierce County for the past several months on a pending charge of second-degree rape of a child.
He was released from custody just six days ago, even though he was wanted on a fugitive warrant out of Arkansas and was staring at eight felony charges in all out of Washington state.
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Well there goes Huckabees pretension at a 2012 run for the presidency.One more falls away.
I don't know that it involved releasing dangerous criminals but there was the bloodgate scandal.
With that guy, anything was possible.
Thanks. I am leaving my daughter up north for the night and
we’ll be locked and loaded this evening. We have a good dog who is very alert, but it is rural.
Too many sources to dig through:
1) Did he serve time in WA state?
2) For child rape? (All I've seen on that is recent filing... they don't list him as a registered sex offender)
Play your bass guitar and explain this one Mike. You have blood on your hands.
we'd better wake up.....
people get harsher sentences for kicking their dog.....
It’s his Christian duty to turn the country into a 3rd world sh**hole.
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Well - this is Washington State. We are VERY diverse here - and tolerant. Along with Huckabee - I hope that this terrible killing will be a turning point in the soft-on-crime attitude of Washington State, and elsewhere.
Out on bail for child rape - and with numerous warrants from outside of the state!!! I hope they find the guy gutshot (one officer was able to return fire I heard) hiding under a bush in a few more days gasping for his last breath.
A Mental Crimminal.
That Huckabee set free.
These Christian folks have a lot to answer for, it seems to me.
Clinton did issue a number of notorious pardons as president, just before he left the White House, but I don’t recall his doing that while in Little Rock. The prison blood scandal was another matter—horrible.
From an AP release:
Clemmons also recently was arrested and charged in Pierce County in Washington state for third-degree assault on a police officer, and second-degree rape of a child.
Was a wise latina judge involved?
And he's waling the streets today? Sadly, it was four public servants that paid the price for the failings of America's criminal justice system, and specifically judges who release violent offenders with long histories of recidivism.
I'm sick.
So do they allow prisoners to play with guns?
No. The just need one new good rule. If there are 500 spaces in the jail and it is full, and there is a new inmate coming in, then they take the criminal who has been there the longest and shoot him at dawn.
Just WOW! U want the name of the judge who let this guy go in Wash? He has blood on his hands!!
Perhaps we should have angry black guys with past criminal histories on the Homeland security watch list instead of Patriotic Americans. Sorry if that is not politically correct.
Could he not be charged under the new “Hate Crime”, that will probably not happen since it was a black guy murdering a white folk.
Another upstanding citizen. Let me guess, he’s out on parole.
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