Posted on 05/07/2025 8:25:05 PM PDT by grundle
A man charged with child rape at a migrant shelter is appealing a change to his bail.
As state and federal authorities clash over deportation matters in the Trump era, Massachusetts’ highest court will decide whether a state judge can increase the bail of someone facing deportation in an effort to keep them in the country to answer for criminal charges.
This issue came before the Supreme Judicial Court for a hearing Wednesday through the case of Cory Alvarez, whose charges became a symbol of the safety issues at state-run emergency shelters last year after he was accused of raping a 15-year-old girl in a Rockland hotel housing migrants. Alvarez, a Haitian national, was in the country legally at the time of the charges, but now has a deportation order to remove him — which, if carried out, would mean he avoids trial on child-rape charges here.
Alvarez remains in state custody on $150,000 bail, which was raised from $500 at the request of prosecutors who wanted to keep him in the country to face the two counts of child rape days before he was due to be deported last October. Federal immigration officials have told prosecutors they won’t seek to deport Alvarez before trial as long as he remains in state custody, according to the Plymouth district attorney’s office. After hearing a case, the SJC often takes months to issue a ruling.
Alvarez’s charges from March 2024 and the judge’s ruling in October to increase his bail predate the current Trump administration, but the issues before the court have gained additional salience amid President Trump’s ongoing immigration crackdown
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Why was his bail only $500 to begin with?
“Why was his bail only $500 to begin with?”
Obviously because he was in the country Illegally.
“Should swap Assholechusetts for Alberta.”
Agreed, maybe we can give Massachusetts back to the Brits.
Lib/Progo azzholes - always looking for a way to game the system.
Shitheads.
Equity. The left believes that a certain group is not responsible for their behavior and therefore shouldn’t be held accountable.
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