“Laxachusetts” and the criminal revolving door
You know that nutball who took hostages at the NH Hillary campaign office Friday afternoon? Turns out he was a convicted rapist released from a Massachusetts prison. The Boston Herald’s Michele McPhee reports:
Executive Office of Public Safety spokesman Terrill Walker told me Eisenberg walked out of MCI-Concord in March 2005 after serving his entire 10-to-20-year sentence.
While Walker would not say what that sentence was for, Department of Correction sources said Eisenberg was a rapist who was let out and rearrested several times for petty crimes. That would make him the second Bay State con released under questionable circumstances to be nabbed for another heinous crime last month.
It’s a pattern:
Daniel Tavares, the butcher who hacked his own mother to death in 1991 and became a violent prisoner behind bars, is charged with executing a young newlywed couple in Washington state on Nov. 17, months after getting out of prison. Tavares was still facing two charges of assaulting prison guards, but was freed when Worcester Superior Court Judge Kathe Tuttman overturned a lower court’s bail and released him on personal recognizance.
What about 26-year-old Dorchester ex-con Michael “Stix” Addison, who is now facing the death penalty for assassinating a Manchester, N.H., police officer with a single bullet to the head last year? The slain cop, Officer Michael Briggs, was allegedly killed by the Massachusetts ex-con who was 16 the first time he tried to kill someone, according to his long rap sheet.
In that attack, he pointed a gun at a classmate and pulled the trigger - twice. The gun misfired. Then, a day after his 17th birthday in 1997, Addison knifed a basketball player in Roxbury. He was charged with assault and battery with intent to murder and armed assault and tried as a result.
A judge sentenced him to a whopping three years, freeing Addison again in 2000. He violated his probation four months later, according to court records, but was never put back in prison. Briggs, one of Manchester’s Finest, paid the ultimate price for the lax attention paid to Addison’s violent rap sheet.
Springfield police Officer David Askins was shot in March by a New York City fugitive who had been hiding from the law by settling in western Massachusetts after he jumped bail in New York on a slew of charges. Why wouldn’t the fugitive, Aaron Breevort, hide out here? Just weeks before Breevort shot Askins, he was arrested, but a brilliant judge released him on bail and told him to surrender in New York on his own honor, a law enforcement source told me.
Sound familiar? Judge Tuttman gave similar instructions to Tavares before that savage fled the state and allegedly killed Brian and Beverly Mauck.
More on Tavares:
he man accused of killing a Washington state couple just a few months after being freed from a Massachusetts prison led authorities to a woman’s remains in Fall River while he was incarcerated, but was never charged in her death, according to a former district attorney.
Former Bristol District Attorney Paul Walsh told The Boston Globe that Daniel Tavares contacted State Police in 2000 and told them he knew where to find Gayle Botelho, a 32-year-old woman who disappeared in 1988.
Walsh said after interviewing Tavares several times in prison, authorities dug up Botelho’s remains in the backyard of a house that Tavares had identified in Fall River, about 50 miles south of Boston.
The grave was across the street from Botelho’s residence and the yard of the house where Tavares was living before pleading guilty to manslaughter after stabbing his mother to death in 1991, the Globe reported.
Tavares, 41, told investigators that he was there when two acquaintances killed Botelho after a wild party. Authorities questioned the two men and Tavares, but never had enough evidence to charge anyone, Walsh said.
“The mere knowledge that this guy knew where she was buried can lead you to all sorts of conjecture about it, but at the end of the day, you need some evidence,” said Walsh, who held office from 1991 to 2006, when he lost a bid for re-election.
Deroy Murdock takes a closer look at Mitt Romney and the Laxachusetts crime record.
The Manchester Union Leader assailed the Bay State’s lax policies last year.
The ghost of Willie Horton lives…
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Massachusetts is one state I lived in once, and one state I would not go back. So much has changed since the 60s. However, if a convict serves the full term of the sentence and has a good prison record, I agree with the release. Not much else I can see to do, that wouldn’t violate his/her rights. Many don’t learn, hence the 3 strike law (which has been misused sometimes). This guy needs to go back…this time longer. Probation is a joke these days too.
1. “Laxachusetts”? Wicked lolzy. I greatly admire the clever conservatives who come up with cute nicknames like “Lame Stream Media,” “Clinton News Network,” or call me “cRusty” to make a point. It’s an ineffective way to make a point.
2. And the point here is ridiculous. Massachusetts does not have problems with crime. No more than any other area. A rapist got sentenced to 10-to-20 years in a high security prison (off-topic: my grandfather was a guard there and my mom grew up in prison housing). Once his sentence is over you can’t keep him indefinitely. That’s not how it works. Yeah he quite obviously crossed state lines and that’s a no-no, but blaming that on Romney or on Massachusetts is ridiculous. Recidivism happens in every state and city in the country.
You found a few cases of poor judicial decisions by Massachusetts judges over the past decade. Those are fine examples of mistakes that should be fixed.
But mistakes happen everywhere. I’m not impressed.
but, rehabilitation…it really works. you’ll see.
Well, there goes Romney’s ‘tough on crime’ branch of the R party.
I mean really, is there a real Republican in the United States of America? Why are there so many Republicans with so many issues that they have to ‘explain’. I guess it’s true that there are no real Republicans in New England.
It would appear that when we began going easier on criminals, opting for trying to understand them rather than punish them, that they became the problem they are today.
While I am, by no means, on the side of this nutcase or Massachusett’s handling of criminals…
The article states he was released after serving his entire sentence. Then it adds that he was rearrested a few times for ‘petty crimes’.
If he served his full sentence - how is it the fault of the state if he was released?
Did the arrests for petty crimes come after his release on the rape charges?
More clarification is needed before I understand the whole picture here…
#5:
Exactly.
As soon as bad behavior was rewarded, rather than punished, we started on the road to where we are today.
Not a sophisticated, progressive analysis, admittedly…but dead-on accurate and true, nonetheless.
No, there are plenty of right wingers in Massachusetts (and a startling number of Libertarians to boot). We just don’t elect them.
Id ont have a problem on that angle of the story.If he served his time then he fairly got parolled
However the real crime is starting. The MSM and Hillary are using this example to push Universal Health Care. This guy saw one of Hillarys ads and demanded that he get free health care.
To see them use this guy to push their agenda is the real crime
Parole them to Sudan.
time served, nuff said. they get out, that’s the law. and, you can’t hold Romney accountable for a judges decision. We have had some very well known conservatives, Reagan, appoint some judges that we were not to happy about their decisions.
Leaders are to lead, no one has a crystal ball.
Otherwise, we wouldn’t have had Justice Sutter or Justice O’Connor. Both being appointed by Conservative Leaders. That being said, hold the justice accountable for their decisions. Impeach them.
I do pity the poor citizens of Massachusetts or I like to call it Taxachusetts, but it did appear the nutball from Friday’s event did serve his time. Tavares not only killed his mother he was also very violent while in the prison system too. From what information I found he threatened public officials and had violent altercations with guards. This guy is a “mad dog” and should have been put down like one. Instead he is released to murder a young couple in Washington state. In our little community of Mountain Home, ID a violent offender released from Washington state came into our town raped and murdered a young attractive 17 year old girl and then went on to Utah to end up killing himself when cornered by authorities. If only any state’s justice system (other than Texas) would actually use the ultimate punishment for violent offenders we would all sleep safer in our beds at night. What every happened to you take a life you lose yours?
Free health care doesn’t mean he is going to take his meds. the reason he did what he did was because he was loony and off of his meds.. i guess they think that free health care means they will force feed the medication on them?
Tough to pin this or any on Romney. Although he as a Republican, he dealt with an entire LIB.Moonbat.DEM Legislature here. He tried often for reform, etc - but was shut down.
problem #1: he was sentenced to 10-20 years, of which he served 11-12 years, for slaughtering his mother. The state didn’t parole him’, they simply opened the cage.
problem #2: when he was rearrested,since he wasn’t on parole, this sent no warning to the criminal justice system that this man was a possible risk to society who was not able to be reassimilated.
if there were ever a need for civil suits, it’s now. i’d actually support victims suing the gov’t over such miscarriages.
oops *souter
Serving their entire sentance does not remove the fact that a person is and has been prone to commit murder. It’s an obvious proven fact that these traits don’t just go away. Once an entire sentance is served these people should be tracked in some way. And not that joke of a registry we have for sex offenders. Forcibly electronically tracked.
Too bad Deroy Murdock doesn’t do all of his homework. I guess it’s technically correct to say Romney “appointed” Tuttman, but the actual process is much more involved - a commission forwards nominees for the governor’s approval, the governor - in this case, Romney - reviews credentials and interviews the candidate, and then sends approved candidates on to yet another commission to make the FINAL decision (as reported on The O’Reilly Factor when the story first broke).
I just wonder how many liberals had a hand in making this particular appointment? Is the judge guilty of bad judgement? Absolutely. But trying to hang this on Romney is ridiculous.
Rusty’s from the same state that keeps electing Ted Kennedy.
Show of hands. How many people are shocked?
Thought so.
And I voted for him too!
You’ll be glad to know that I now live in DC so I’m not allowed to have anyone on Capitol Hill who represents me and my (our)crazy liberal ideas.
If Rusty lives in DC, I’ll bet he doesn’t take long walks after dark in the south east part of the city. If he did he might run into some of his fellow Democrat voters. I’m a former PG county resident who has also live in New England. Trust me, even Mass. is safer than DC.
lived…fingers faster than brain.
Rusty, You say you proudly voted for him, but would you feel completely safe riding in a car with him behind the wheel?
I’m thinking that most of you folks did not read the link supplied by Michelle from Deroy Murdoch. It was not an 11-20 year sentence..it was a 17 to 20 year sentence, also; for those of you who insist that this is not Romney’s fault, in the article by Deroy he states that Romney was interested only in diversifying his administration when he hired these judges and prosecutors. If that was the credentials that he was shooting for when reading applications, then yes he indirectly responsible for this.
…over a bridge.
It’s not the same thing.
Connections between Willie Horton and Eisenberg:
-Massachusetts justice system
-Both were scumbags
-Both were in jail for committing crimes.
-Both were let out by Massachusetts authorities.
The difference is WHY they were let out.
Willie Horton was let out on a stupid, feel-good furlough program.
Eisenberg served his sentence and was released. Even though he was picked up on petty crimes, he wasn’t in violation of a parole since he had served his time.
We don’t need to stretch a story to make liberals look bad, and when we do it only makes us look bad when the real connection isn’t there.
I’m not a Mitt guy though I think I could vote for him were he to get the nod but he had no wiggle room here in MA. It is an absurdly Democrat state. Ted Kennedy will win elections posthumously if they can get his name on the ballot. The Dems hated Romney, first, because he was a Republican but also because he was not a real MA hack. Because of his background, they thought that Mitt was an out-of towner, an interloper.
The state Republicans hated Mitt because he broke up the line of succession thing that they had going here and whipped the next person in line.
What Republicans actually are in our legislature are strictly domesticated animals. No excuse, but it is strictly “go along to get along”.
In short, Romney had very few friends in either party. He undoubtedly made a lot of compromises and gave out favors to people he shouldn’t have trusted. He labored under mighty constraints but the truth is I don’t know if he’d have done anything dufferently if he could.
Rusty talks out of his hat. Boston is undergoing elevated violence among our “utes” that finally might be the matter that shakes the cage of our somnolent mayor.
Whoa, I never denied that Boston crime rates weren’t on the rise. I’m just saying that the crime rate in Massachusetts isn’t especially problematic. For example, last year Massachusetts’s murder rate was 2.9 per 100,000 citizens. That’s comparable with Idaho (2.5). And it’s considerably less than Virginia (5.2), Oklahoma (5.8), Texas (5.9), Alabama (8.3) and a bunch of other traditionally “tough on crime” Republican states where murderers are eligible for a lethal injection.
This post implies that Massachusetts has a crime problem. It doesn’t.
You didn’t stay gone for long, Rusty. Missed the echo chamber I guess.
Welcome back, either way.