Posted on 05/26/2018 4:39:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
John Adams must be rolling over in his grave. The great founding father from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts once said, “We are a government of laws, not of men.” Today, it seems that some of his Bay State successors have all but forgotten Adams’ words. Perhaps most neglectful of the rule of law is Superior Court Judge Timothy Feeley. His latest legal rulings have been so egregious that Massachusetts state legislators and hundreds of concerned citizens are calling for his impeachment. The Commonwealth’s Gov. Charlie Baker even weighed in on the subject. Judge Feeley’s wisdom, or lack thereof, in recent months has let a cop killer, a heroin kingpin, and a sexual predator roam the streets after proving to be public threats. Why did Judge Feeley let these men go? In short, because he felt like it.
Yesterday, 200 people rallied outside the Ruane Judicial Center in Salem, MA to protest Feeley’s decision regarding convicted drug dealer Manuel Soto-Vittini. The rally, organized by local radio talk show host Jeff Kuhner, came a week after Massachusetts representative Jim Lyons filed a resolution to impeach Judge Feeley. For Rep. Lyons, Judge Feeley's ruling on Soto-Vittini was the last straw.
Manuel Soto-Vittini was arrested in June 2015 after police found 40 bags of heroin hidden in various departments in his car. According to Salem Police, Soto-Vittini was not a small time crook. He was a central figure in the Salem drug trade. This drug trade led to 21 deaths in Salem directly from opioids like heroin in 2017. That number pales in comparison to the 2,016 who died from opioid overdoses bought by addicts purchased from criminals such as Soto-Vittini through out last year.
But Judge Feeley did not view Soto-Vittini as a criminal. In fact, the judge saw Soto-Vittini as a family man who was trying to provide for his family by making money.
As noted by Julia Maganis of Salem News, according to Feeley Soto-Vittini posed no threat because he was not an addict himself.
"This was basically a money crime," Judge Timothy Feeley concluded, rejecting a prosecutor's request for one to three years in state prison.
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"This was not a drug addict who was dealing to fund his own addiction," Feeley said, "but rather, a person who made some terrible judgments and decisions, but made them for what he thought was in the best interest of his family."
Furthermore, Soto-Vittini is an immigrant from the Dominican Republic. Had he been convicted, Soto-Vittini could have been deported. But, in Judge Feeley’s eyes, this would have been disastrous for his family.
So, instead of giving Soto-Vittini jailtime, the judge gave him two years worth of probation. Thus, he could avoid deportation.
Prosecutor Kristin Buxton harangued the judge for his jurisprudential malfeasance.
"Now the court exercises its discretion to help him avoid deportation," said Buxton, who also told the judge she "could not disagree more" with the judge's rationale.
"This was not a one-time incident," said Buxton, noting police reports that suggested Soto-Vittini was making near-daily drug deals. "It's clear ... he was in the ongoing business of dealing heroin," the prosecutor said.
The prosecutor continued, saying that a person's immigration status should not be a considering factor in a case such as this.
“I think it’s a dangerous view to take,” Buxton added, “that being someone who is not a U.S. citizen is somehow mitigating when you’re talking about dealing a very dangerous substance...He was in the ongoing business of dealing heroin.”
As if letting a known drug dealer walk the streets in the midst of opioid epidemic was not bad enough, Feeley has also made other terrible decisions that have endangered innocent citizens.
In 2016, a sexual predator named Daniel Beauvais was arrested for abusing a girl when she was between the ages of 10 and 12. He originally was held without bail and was described as a "serial sexual abuser." For some reason, Judge Feeley "decided to release Beauvais on a GPS bracelet and $100 bail, over the objection of prosecutors." While the pervert was out of jail, he racked up three counts of witness intimidation. It was only then that Judge Feeley revoked Beauvais' bail and brought him back into custody.
Then, just last month, Judge Feeley reduced the bail of John Williams from $10,000 to $5,000. Williams had been arrested on gun charges. Williams took the opportunity away from jail to travel up to Maine where he subsequently killed a police officer. He led a manhunt throughout New England before being captured. Again, Feeley went against the recommendation of prosecutors. Again, his decision resulted in tragedy that could have been avoided. Judges often give bail on different terms than the recommended amount. Sometimes it is more, sometimes it is less. But it is rare that a judge constantly makes such a bad decision.
Judge Feeley was nominated in 2008 at age 58 by Gov. Deval Patrick. Under Massachusetts law, Superior Court justices can hold the position until they are 70 years old. Or they can be removed through impeachment if they are proven to be incompetent.
Now thanks to the aforementioned Kuhner and Rep. Lyons, people are taking a stand against his terrible decision making that seems to be devoid of any legal reasoning other than his mood of the day. Rep. Lyons started a petition on change.org calling for the impeachment of Judge Feeley that has amassed more than 7,000 signatures.
At the rally against Feeley in Salem, folks like Chris Carpenter who have lost loved ones to drug over doses spoke out against the judge. “To just put someone back on the street like that, it’s just a total injustice and we’re never going to stop this epidemic if we don’t do something about it,” said Carpenter.
Gov. Baker said that Feeley's decisions were “ridiculous and an outrage,” but stayed away from saying whether or not Feeley should be impeached.
New England radio icon Howie Carr is not very hopeful that Judge Feeley will be impeached. Carr recently wrote, "So now a handful of Republican state reps introduce a resolution to impeach Feeley and remove him from the bench. As of Friday night, they had rounded up exactly one Democrat co-sponsor — Colleen Garry of Dracut. One! Out of more than 120 Democrats in the House."
"That’s how serious the State House is about doing something to stop this plague," he added.
If there is anybody still reading and not understanding why Feeley should be removed, perhaps the host of the talk radio show the Kuhner Report on WRKO can explain it best in a recent article he authored.
"The evidence is overwhelming: Feeley has no right to be sitting on a court bench," Kuhner said. "He is not just soft on crime. He poses a serious, mortal threat to the safety of every law-abiding citizen in Massachusetts. He is actively aiding and abetting the worst criminals in our society—drug traffickers, cop killers and child molesters. He needs to be held accountable and removed from office."
I personally was in a car in L.A. and my bud who I did NOT know had NO (or did not renew his tags says he) INSURANCE and REGISTRATION, and the cops let him go after looking at his drivers license.
I was with him during the stop. The stupid cops did NOT even ask for insurance and registration. NO TICKET given.
I couldnt believe it. That was the last time I went with him, and I was in the car because my stupid Uber driver didnt show up. This happened a year ago..
Hallmark of an Hate-America-First scumbag - going easy on 3rd Wavers, the absolute worst this hemisphere has in a human package.
FISA warrant on this guy stat. This. Is. No. Accident.
One cannot make this stuff up!! Like a comedy at the movies if it weren’t so deadly serious. How do these “men in black” get appointed in MA? Is it for life???
Gaydar readings on this well named kook (”Feeley”) record strong “queer” signals. Is this dude yet another of the gay state misanthropes, and a paid member of the masshole mafia mobsters?
Wow— this moronic, self-aggrandizing lying “judge” has had this going on for almost all of her “time on the bench”— ie. she hasn’t been “on the bench”.
A video review for other FReepers. This is incredible— and she was still on the payroll, even while in jail for violating court ordered appearance, and her “living with monks in Thailand” (yeah, that fixes a commode hugging drunk’s entitlement).
Just WOW— but I bet there’s someone worse..(LOL):
video summary, not well edited but puts dates and actions in timeline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTVO4viqnws
There are hundreds of other blackrobed shysters that are just as bad.
This judge needs a sanity hearing and then impeachment. He’s a nut and a clear and present danger to society.
But then again he’s a Democrat appointment by another mentally ill governor so his chances of being dethroned are not very good, UNLESS there is a popular uprising by the parents of those killed by opium in the state.
It will be up to the few remaining sane people of Massachusetts to seek justice, and soon.
The People knew how to handle judges like Timothy Feeley in the days of old Massachusetts.
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” All 25 court officials, faced with 4,622 hostile militiamen, knew well the stories of patriots tarring and feathering Tories who they viewed as traitors to their cause, the ransacking of their homes, and even the occasional use of death threats.(6) General Gage and his troops were nowhere to be found in Worcester that day. Left to their own devices, the Crown’s appointees reluctantly signed documents disavowing their appointments by King George III. The court officials were then marched publicly, hat in hand through the gauntlet, in a procession toward the courthouse, recanting out loud their oaths of office and repeating their disavowals as demanded by the assembled militiamen.
Following the September 6 debacle, General Gage had no choice but to admit to Lord Dartmouth, “Civil government is near its end, the Courts of Justice expiring one after another.”(7)
The Meaning of September 6, 1774
The spectacle of the Worcester rebellion against British authority and public humiliation of its officials, sent a shock wave across the Massachusetts colony, all the way to Philadelphia where the First Continental Congress was in session. Worcester’s militiamen had irreversibly set the stage for an inevitable later, larger confrontation with the British military. In the meantime, colonial forces had exceeded even the most optimistic expectations of the patriot resistance movement.
Not a shot had been fired.
Bloodshed had been avoided.
British authority had been demonstrably overthrown for the first time in the American colonies.
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Time to do it again?
I would not call that poetic Justice as this man simply abused his legal athourty more than disregard and contradict the written law in these cases.
The worse judge in America is still the Supreme Court InJustice Ginsberg.
Although I suspect many members of the 9th circuit are just as bad. These people contradict clear written laws with hundreds of years of precidents on a regular basis.
That is the worst possible behavior of a judge.
I don’t think I am going out on a limb here, another Soros puppet woo woo ginsberg.
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