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Massachusetts Murder Of Police Officer Continues To Provoke Attacks On Parole System- Attorney Sam?s Take

By Altman & Altman

We live in a ?when the going gets tough, the tough get blaming? society today. We continue to fall into the same behavior in the face of tragedy. Then we wonder why we have the same problems. A police officer has been murdered during a robbery t. The shooter, Dominic Cinelli, who was freed on parole in 2009 and who killed Officer John B. Maguire on December 26, 2010, had an extremely bad criminal history, yet he convinced a parole board that he was a good candidate for release. Yesterday, as the parole board returned to work, I was interviewed on WBZ, part of which interview can be found here. The political debate has gotten so trident that Governor Deval Patrick, simply making the statement that this is a time in which we should focus on the victims of what happened, aka the officer?s family, has raised people's ire...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on January 05, 2011 (boomark / email).