"Wrongly convicted man seeks compensation" by Maria Cramer, Globe Staff | July 9, 2008
State government costing you MORE MONEY, taxpayers!!!
A Hyde Park man who was wrongly convicted of molesting a 6-year-old girl has filed a lawsuit against the state, seeking compensation for the 10 years he spent behind bars.
Guy Randolph, 50, who was convicted of indecent assault and battery on the girl in 1991, spent seven years as a registered sex offender after his release from prison in 2001. This status, his lawyer said, branded him an outcast and may have prevented him and his mother from being approved for public housing.
"I feel as though Guy deserves" compensation, said his 74-year-old mother, Ruth Johns, who lives with her son and takes care of him. "It's owed to him. There are a lot of things he missed out on."
In May, a Suffolk Superior Court judge exonerated him after the district attorney's office acknowledged that he had been wrongly convicted. His name was taken off the state Sex Offender Registry and the picture of him that had hung for years in a Boston police station was removed.
Randolph, who cannot work because he has schizophrenia and is prone to seizures, wants financial compensation under a state law passed in 2004 that provides a maximum of $500,000 for erroneous convictions.
Randolph was cleared after prosecutors agreed that the case against him was weak from the beginning. There was no physical evidence tying him to the crime, and the victim initially had said he was not her attacker. During the grand jury investigation, she described her attacker in ways that did not match Randolph.
So they FRAMED HIM!!! Can you EVER BELIEVE the "LAW," anymore?
Randolph was indicted and pleaded guilty under the Alford plea, which allows a defendant to assert innocence while acknowledging that the state has enough evidence for a conviction.
Randolph's lawyer, Sejal Patel, said that he has a good chance of being compensated because prosecutors in Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley's office agree that he should never have been charged in the first place.
"There is no district attorney worth their salt . . . who would have let this case get indicted," Patel said.
Yup, so Conley just WASTED TONS of TAXPAYER TIME and MONEY railroading the WRONG GUY!
Trying to build his "record," no doubt!
I'll bet this makes Mr. and Ms. Woodman pretty happy, huh?
"Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, who is conducting an investigation with police homicide detectives into Woodman's death, has an excellent relationship with the agent who heads the FBI's Boston office "
Since the law was passed, 25 people have filed for compensation with the state attorney general's office. Between $5.2 million and $5.7 million has been distributed to 12 former prisoners. Eleven cases are pending. One case was dismissed by a Plymouth Superior Court judge, and another resulted in a mistrial, with a retrial scheduled for 2009.
And now the state is going to get even further into the household.
Would you trust the liking fuckers?
Please read: All For the Kids
STAY AWAY from OUR CHILDREN!!!!
John Swomley, a Boston defense lawyer, said the attorney general will resist paying prisoners who were wrongly convicted, unless there is DNA evidence proving their innocence.
"They're going to try and fight and argue that while he's technically not guilty, he's not necessarily innocent," Swomley said. "Honestly, I don't think they really care whether it's justly awarded or not. It's a function of economics. They don't want to have to pay out that kind of money."
Right!
State doesn't mind LOOTING US, but when they have to give it out, well.... unless, that is, it goes to rich Hollywood folk or corporate and lottery favorites -- or Wall Street.
Attorney General Martha Coakley said the decisions to settle are driven by evidence that the person asserting wrongful conviction is innocent. She said several cases have been settled in which there was no DNA evidence that cleared the complainant.
"The DNA makes it quicker and easier, but it's not like if there is no DNA we're not going to do this," she said. "There has to be a standard by which there is a determination made as to who is entitled to [compensation]. The burden is for the plaintiff seeking the compensation to prove they are actually innocent."
UNREAL!!!!
The fucking state FRAMES the guy, then says HE HAS TO PROVE IT!!!!
FUCK YOU, you FASCIST FUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also see: Drunk Killed in Downtown Boston and Other Unsolved Crimes
Patel said she hopes any compensation will help Randolph obtain counseling and medical attention. After Randolph was released, he became withdrawn, depressed by how he was treated in his neighborhood, where some would call him "molester," Johns said.
Since his exoneration, Randolph has become more confident, Johns said. He has made friends and rides his bicycle through Hyde Park, where people now congratulate him on being cleared.
"He feels accepted," Johns said. "He always knew that I love him. He knows I always will, but now he feels the world loves him and accepts him."
He should NEVER HAVE BEEN PUT THROUGH THAT to begin with!
And, yeah, I trust the cops a whole pile now.
DID THEY GET the RIGHT GUY?
MANSFIELD - After an intense manhunt, police tracked down and detained a suspect last night in the slaying of a recent high school graduate, the first homicide the town has seen in nearly two decades.
Gregg Miliote, a spokesman for the Bristol district attorney's office, said the man was being held for questioning after being detained at South Station in Boston by MBTA Transit Police. He would not identify the man because no charges had been filed by last night.
Miliote also said police were still searching for at least one other person who is wanted for questioning.
Police said Andrew Colwell, 18, who graduated from Mansfield High School last month, was found shot in the head behind the wheel of a car in the Edgewood Condominiums complex about 7 p.m. Monday.
The last slaying in Mansfield occurred 17 years ago, Police Chief Arthur O'Neill said yesterday in a phone interview. Police are still seeking answers in that killing: the unsolved case of a 19-year-old who was stabbed repeatedly in a cemetery and died in a parking lot in front of the Police Department.
They never solve any crimes, do they?
They just pick someone up and make the evidence fit, don't they?
Of course, AmeriKa's police would NEVER PLANT EVIDENCE on people, right?
A helicopter circled the housing complex Monday night, beaming a light below, where police with dogs examined nearby roads, bushes, and trees into the early morning for any sign of suspects or a gun. The search ended about 1:30 a.m., and yielded little evidence.
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"Police were looking for as many as three suspects yesterday in the slaying of a recent high school graduate, a killing that has shaken a town where police say there have been no homicides in nearly two decades."
I guess the suspect list is down to two now, huh? Sigh.
Sounds like a drug or gambling execution to me.
So, did they get the right guy?
Oh, that can't be; that NEVER HAPPENS!
And lest you think it is no big deal, here's where false charges could lead you, folks!
"Man, 37, gets life in death of teen; Insists on innocence in rooming house death" by John R. Ellement, Globe Staff | July 9, 2008
"I cannot sit here quietly and be the scapegoat for the actions of others," Rodrick J. Taylor, 37, said while reading from a typewritten text. "I am innocent. I did not commit this crime, and I am heartbroken the jury believes that I did."
Although Taylor; his mother, the Rev. Hattie Sessions; and his lawyer, John Swomley, all insisted yesterday that he was not the killer, one of the jurors who convicted Taylor said there was no doubt among the panel that they reached a just verdict.
Swomley and Taylor's family contend that Martin McCray, Taylor's cousin and a high school friend of Samuels's, was the actual killer. McCray testified for five days during Taylor's trial and denied that he killed Samuels.
Juror Jason E. Sylva, a Boston Globe employee, said: "Once we established it was [late] Thursday night, then the [prosecution] story fits and it's Rodrick."
Sylva said that under blistering cross-examination, some of McCray's answers changed from what he had told police. But, he said, "the important things didn't."
They talked to one of their OWN EMPLOYEES?
Yup, the prosecutors story just happened to "fit," huh?
Look, I don't know a thing about the case, but what I do know is I NO LONGER TRUST "AUTHORITIES!"
Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said that if the evidence showed McCray was involved or killed Samuels, he would have been charged. But it did not, he said.
Uh-oh!!!!
He may NOT BE the BEST GUY to ASK:
"Randolph was cleared after prosecutors agreed that the case against him was weak from the beginning. There was no physical evidence tying him to the crime, and the victim initially had said he was not her attacker..... He has a good chance of being compensated because prosecutors in Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley's office agree that he should never have been charged in the first place. "There is no district attorney worth their salt . . . who would have let this case get indicted," Patel said."
I'll bet this makes Mr. and Ms. Woodman pretty happy, huh?
