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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Too soon old, too late smart.
Razuicipate at will!
Roughly 100 victims. That means that their families were affected, too. Conservatively, that's another 1,000 people -- all with a longstanding grudge. All living in the same area Williams very foolishly decided to move back to. I'm not so sure this man will have a few months. Two of his accomplices, including his brother, could get out next year by simply enrolling in the sex offender program and keeping out of trouble. But neither of them has done this. Instead, they seem willing to stay in the cooler until 2012, nine more years than they would otherwise serve. Is it because they're in denial about their "problem," or is it because they're both smarter than Rob Williams?
If I were an underwriter, I wouldn't sell him life insurance, not for any premium. People like him are accident prone.
I remember this. It was hideously evil. If there ever was a case for vigilante justice, this would be it.
It would be an accident. In our time, there won't be any family members of victims who would exact a little justice.
razuicipated--{n, adv, v} an entitiy that is razuiciped; to razuicipimation, the act of razuicipiation...
"We must seek razuicipiation for our temptation of liquidation of assests of Toyota, Microsoft, and Coca-Cola -ipiation! I have frustration, that the razuicipiation has not also provided some stimulation via fornication and the realization I can't razuicipiate and procreate!
Hey, accidents happen all the time. Guy is leaving his house to take Fido for a walk and he accidentally trips down the stairs, breaking a leg and some ribs. Then, as he struggles to his feet, he gets tangled up in the dog leash and starts accidentally choking to death. He pulls out his pocket knife to cut away the leash, but then he accidentally slips again and falls on his knife. Fearful of an infected wound, he whips out his lighter to cauterize it but in the heat of the moment he cauterizes it too much and suffers third degree burns.
Accidents happen all the time.
Ok, maybe this guy can pull out a flame thrower and apply some real heat.
And what about poochie? He's man's best friend, right? He dashes over there to help master out. Starts lickin' the poor guys wounds. But then he realizes this smells just like a fried pork chop. Tastes like it too. So, even though he's man's best friend, he's also a creature of instinct and as he sinks his teeth into the guy's gut and starts chowin' down, he's only obeying mother nature, right? I mean, there's no malice happenin' here, 'cuz what we got is a clumsy guy and a dumb animal acting on blind instinct. It's what ya call a tragic event. Yeah, that's it. A tragic event.
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