Sig Heil, Bay State!
"Fall River police violated suspect’s rights, judge says; Evidence tossed in gun, drug case" by Brian R. Ballou, Globe Staff | July 1, 2010
For the third time, US District Judge Mark L. Wolf has issued a scathing ruling against law enforcement officials in Massachusetts, saying the Fall River Police Department violated a suspect’s civil rights and used coercion to recover weapons and drugs from his house — evidence that will now be suppressed....
NOT in MASSACHUSETTS!!!
“This is another case in which police misconduct has jeopardized the prosecution of a defendant charged with unlawfully possessing a firearm, among other things,’’ Wolf wrote in his memorandum and order.
Page Kelley, the assistant federal public defender representing Aryam Gonzalez, a 20-year-old Fall River man arrested in February 2009 and charged with gun and drug possession, said she was familiar with Wolf’s previous rulings.
See: The Genesis of the DiMasi Case
U.S. Attorneys Regulary Withhold Exculpatory Evidence
Jewish Media Protects Jewish Philanderer
And so does the U.S. Judge!!!
“Judge Wolf is a former prosecutor himself and is very well known for holding prosecutors and law enforcement officials to a high standard of conduct. They know he’s not going to overlook people he thinks are lying.’’
Depends on who you are, of course.
In 1990, the judge ruled that statements made by a suspect in a drug case should be suppressed because he involuntarily led police to a handgun he had tossed aside during a chase, a violation of his fourth and fifth amendments rights. The suspect, Michael Rullo, had been beaten by police following an extensive manhunt in East Boston, according to court records....
Seems to be a theme with them, doesn't it?
More from the River:
"Mother to be arraigned in toddler’s death
A Rehoboth woman accused of first-degree murder in the beating death of her 2-year-old son will answer to the charge in Fall River Superior Court. Kim Peno was indicted last week by a Bristol County grand jury. The 39-year-old is scheduled to be arraigned today. Peno has been held without bail since her arrest in March. She pleaded not guilty during an earlier appearance in district court. Her lawyer at the time said she had mental health issues (AP)."
FLASHBACK:
"State watched family where boy died; Mother is charged in slaying of child, 2" by David Abel and John R. Ellement, Globe Staff | March 20, 2010
A Rehoboth woman whose family had been monitored by a state child protection agency was charged yesterday with killing her 2-year-old son, hours after he died at a hospital in Rhode Island, prosecutors said.
Related: They Died in Each Others Arms
Hey, Neighbor!
State doing a great job, aren't they?
Kim H. Peno, 38, was scheduled to be arraigned Monday on first-degree murder charges in Taunton District Court, the same courthouse where she pleaded not guilty Thursday to assault charges after authorities first learned that the boy had sustained serious head injuries, Bristol District Attorney C. Samuel Sutter said in a statement....
Peno, who previously pleaded no contest to charges she had assaulted others, had been required to undergo supervision by the state Department of Children and Families, which has custody of her other child, a 1-year-old boy.
Alison Goodwin, a DCF spokeswoman, declined to comment on why the department had been monitoring Peno’s family. She said the case was closed after about a year, but she would not say how long ago....
WTF? Why are we paying these people?
To her neighbors on Blanding Street in Rehoboth, where the family lived for about two years, Peno was an unsettling presence. She rarely talked to others and was often seen pacing outside her home.
“She was kind of weird,’’ said Samantha Victorino, who lives across the street from Peno and her husband, Joseph. “I never see her with the babies. She was always outside by herself. She would just walk around outside.’’
She added: “She was just odd. Everyone else in the neighborhood talks, except her. The shades are always completely closed, even during the day. It looks like no one lives in the house.’’
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Court records posted on the Rhode Island court system’s website showed that Kim Peno pleaded no contest in 1993 to charges of simple assault and assault and battery on a person over 60.
She pleaded no contest to attempted larceny in 1995, and she has an outstanding warrant in Uxbridge District Court on motor vehicle offenses.
--more--"Falling down all over the place, aren't they?
