Posted on 06/28/2002 11:08:24 AM PDT by NYer
NEW YORK (AP) _ A man who pleaded guilty to more than 100 felony counts in a horrific 1982 rampage of robbery, rape and assault in several Long Island communities was freed from prison on Friday, state officials said.
Robert Williams, 39, walked out of the Shawangunk maximum security prison in upstate Wallkill at 9:30 a.m., said Linda Foglia, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Correctional Services. Williams, who was sentenced to 15-30 years in prison, was released because he has served two-thirds of the 30 years, complied with prison rules and razuicipated in treatment programs. Four accomplices are still in prison.
The five men from Brooklyn stole a Cadillac and drove to a home in Plainview, on Long Island, where they raped, beat and robbed guests at a party. Later, they went to a diner in Westbury, where the men robbed and terrorized customers.
The attackers made their victims strip and ordered some to have sex with each other. Two men were shot and at least one waitress was raped. ``Nothing in my career ever compared to the magnitude of this crime and the acts of pure evil,'' former detective John F. Nolan told The New York Times in Friday's editions. ``This was degradation on a scale that was barbaric.''
After Williams' conviction, Nassau County District Attorney Denis E. Dillon successfully lobbied state lawmakers to change sentencing laws, making it possible for people convicted of multiple felonies, not including murder, to be sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison instead of the 15-30 years that Williams received. ``My office continues to support legislation to remove all caps on consecutive sentences in cases such as these,'' Dillon said in a statement.
Two of Williams' accomplices, Robert Samuels and James Martin, are serving life sentences after convictions on an unrelated murder. Robert Williams' brother, Michael, has enrolled in a sex offender treatment program that could lead to his release. The fifth man convicted in the attack, Bruce Garrison, is not being released because he has not enrolled in the sex offender program.
Robert Williams' name has been added to the state sex offender registry; he is expected to move to Brooklyn, where he will live with his wife and two of his three children, state parole officials told The Times.
``He will be supervised intensively by the Targeted Offender Program, which is a special offender unit of parole officers, who work with the New York Police Department and officers in the 73rd and 75th precincts,'' said Martin Cirincione, executive director of the New York State Division of Parole.
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There's something about it here, last two paragraphs
What a freakin' joke. As if.
Any time this animal does anything -- jaywalking, littering, mopery with intent -- throw the book at him.
But perhaps no crime shocked Long Island more than the spree that involved 100 people and occurred in two places -- the Sea Crest Diner in Old Westbury and a house party in Plainview -- in the early morning hours of Saturday, May 29, 1982.
Five men, all from Brooklyn, invaded the Plainview party, forced 20 persons to take off their clothes, robbed them and sexually abused and raped women. Then they went to the diner, where they held about 75 people at gunpoint and ordered several men and women to have sex. One woman was raped in front of several diner patrons, people were pistol-whipped, blackjacked, shot in the buttocks; they were all made to strip and throw their valuables on the floor. Witnesses got a description of the car the men were in, and all five ultimately were arrested. All -- including two later convicted of a 1981 murder -- remain in prison. It was called by one judge "the most violent and obscene crime spree in the history of Nassau County."
Was race a factor in this crime?
Isn't that against the law in 11 states?
Don't think so ...
but mom said it will make you go blind.
HEE HEE HEE
HA HA HA
NYUK NYUK
Stop - you're killing me ...
Well, except for the fact that all the perpetrators were black and from an essentially all-black neighborhood and they drove to an essantially all-white neighborhood and all of the victims at the party and restaurant were white (mostly ethnic Italian) who the perps racially and ethnically insulted as they shot, raped, and beat them - no, aside from that, race wasn't a factor.
Wait a minute. According to the article this punk is 39 years old and has spent the last 20 years in the slammer. That means he had 3 kids by the time he was 19?
Perhaps that is the meaning of "razuicipated." It is the act of being involved in black on white crime in a politically correct country where such activities are routinely overlooked. From a combination of the words "race" and "participated." Or else it's from poker, meaning you anticipated that the other guy would raise you.
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