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  • Hard to miss Duke when his cons won't go away

    03/25/2005 11:24:48 AM PST · by raccoonradio · 7 replies · 707+ views
    The Boston Herald ^ | 3/25/05 | Howie Carr
    Mike Dukakis hasn't been governor since 1990, and he's still molly-coddling criminals in Massachusetts. Just ask double-murderer Norman Porter, Chicago's ``beloved anti-war poet,'' who's finally - finally - back in Massachusetts. The Duke commuted one of his life sentences, tried unsuccessfully to commute the other, and then finally let him walk away from a prison so ridiculously lax in 1985 that the warden - excuse me, superintendent - ate dinner every Friday night in the special cell bloc for organized-crime thugs. And the Democrats wonder why they still can't elect a governor. Everybody is afraid we'll end up with another...
  • Fugitive murderer returns to Mass. after 20 years on the lam (anti-war protester)

    03/23/2005 11:30:53 PM PST · by ambrose · 8 replies · 594+ views
    AP ^ | 3.24.05
    Fugitive murderer returns to Mass. after 20 years on the lam By DENISE LAVOIE AP Legal Affairs Writer March 24, 2005 Dottie Johnson lobbied for years to keep the man convicted of killing her 21-year-old cousin from gaining his freedom. Now, two decades after he escaped from a Massachusetts prison and disappeared, Norman A. Porter Jr. is back in custody. "It's been a very emotional thing," she said, recalling the almost 45 years since her cousin, John "Jackie" Pigott, was shot to death in a robbery at the Saugus retail store where he worked. Johnson was 13 then. "We hope...