Posted on 04/22/2010 8:54:20 AM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Convicted rapist Ben LaGuer will again profess his innocence when he goes before the state Parole Board today to ask for freedom after 27 years of prison.
LaGuer, who has attracted supporters from the upper echelons of academia and civic life, will be represented by retired Superior Court Judge Isaac Borenstein at today’s hearing.
LaGuer intends to tell parole board members he has a lesion on his liver, which may be cancerous, according to a statement on his Web site, benlaguer.org.
(Excerpt) Read more at bostonherald.com ...
Let me get this straight....having cancer is now a “Get Out Of Jail” card?
Give me a Obiden Break!
If DNA is enough to free a man, then it should be enough to close the book on this jagoff and just call it a day.
"A DNA test linked LaGuer to the crime in 2002. He is incarcerated at the North Central Correctional Institution in Gardner."
For those of us not from the NE area, why is this still an issue. Doesn't DNA pretty much end the debate? He was convicted and the DNA evidence links him to the crime. Seems pretty open and shut.
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If this is true, then I think a whole lot of angry people, who happen to have cancer, may take it upon themselves to approach politicians and "speak truth to power". What will the courts do? Put them in jail??? Hey, these people have cancer!
But Borenstein contends that the results were unreliable because evidence was mislabeled and mishandled.
This is actually kinda funny. Say we acknowledge that the DNA evidence was mishandled. Does this mean that LaGuer raped some other women? Obviously his DNA matched someone. And if was his own DNA evidence that was mishandled why not just give another sample?
If he did the crime and was convicted it’s too bad he has cancer but that dosn’t change what he did to his victims. Do the crime serve your time period.
Since he says he has Cancer . . . and is going to die eventually, anyway, in a horribly painful death . . . I say, he’s a candidate for Euthanasia. Why allow a convicted criminal to use up resources that could be used on a productive member of society?
Isn’t that the “Obama-Care” way?
Ben LaRapist is confused. Cancer is a “get out of jail free” card, but only for terrorists in Britain, not for rapists in the United States. This is not his day (but it is a good day for the innocent women of Massachusetts).
This would be academic if the penalty for rape was execution.
Dying of an illness in prison is a forseeable consequence of breaking the law-it’s part of the penalty.
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