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Dorchester man, 22, to get life for murder
By adamg on Tue, 10/18/2011 - 7:56am
A Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday convicted Omay Tavares of gunning down George "Jeffrey" Thompson on Rosseter Street in Dorchester on Jan. 7, 2010, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
The conviction on the first-degree murder charge means a mandatory sentence of life without possibility of parole.
Tavares's undoing was a series of phone calls he made to Thompson before shooting him repeatedly. Tavares claimed he was on Greenbrier Street, nowhere near Rosseter, at the time of the murder, but "cell phone and tower records proved that Tavares made the calls from his own cell phone, with those calls hitting towers close to Thompson's house," the DA's office says. A "pristine" fingerprint matching Tavares's on a doorknob at Rosseter also didn't much help his case.
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Oh good...life in prison...
Make his family pay the bill for his stay. Don't put this on us, the tax payers.
What laws did his family break?
What a very strange concept - and an Unamerican one, too.
Beat me to it.
Not only Un-American, but more-or-less specifically ruled out by the Constitution, depending upon how you interpret the Corruption of Blood and Forfeiture language.
Teabaggers
Aren't specifically for the constitution. They just like bringing up the specter to use as an argument for something they want.
Kind of like the whole "Good" things I like = Conservative, bad things I hate = liberal.
It's an ideological crutch. And it's getting old.
I mean, they're also the ones that argue that the death penalty should be made cheaper by removing due process (appeals). Because time and again, government has always shown that it does everything right, and is never on the wrong side of morality, judgment, or abuse. Yup, the same people arguing that government can't do anything right, want to give it the ability to kill a prisoner without access to an appeal process.
Thats all you need to know about these dopes.
Um...
Did I miss something? Were "teabaggers" mentioned? Or is this just a rant that you had bottled up inside for some time and it needed to get out no matter where it ended up?
Just asking :-)
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
Meh
-Make the family pay
-Poor old taxpayers covering "others" bills
Same old shtick.
I guess it could be a warped libertarian view, but I don't think they'd suggest that the family be punished for the sole actions of a blood relative. We did away with that sort of thinking a good 500-600 years ago. That sort of thinking "punishment" pop up in "TeaParty" rhetoric quite a bit.
I was just finishing the talking points of what was started. If they want to come back and post a coherent thought and argue the merits, we're all here.
:)
You can't honestly enjoy paying for others living expenses.
If you do, well then feel free to start a "sponsor a con" program. Raise all the funds you want for these people in prison, ween the system off of tax payer funds, and even accept PayPal.
What laws did you and I break?
Why not make his family pay for his costs in prison? They were responsible for his upbringing. They were responsible for making him a responsible citizen.
Are you walking around shooting people, stealing from others, murdering other people? I know I'm not. I like to think since you're posting on here, you're also not in prison and are therefore a responsible person.
Why put the costs of keeping people in prison for life, on people who didn't break the law(s).
Exactly
My sentiments exactly. It's also what you're asking for.
Please think about it. You've got a logical disconnect happening.
I understand your desire to keep the costs associated with life imprisonment from falling to the general populace, but you're also asking that those costs be borne by people who didn't break the law(s). Yes, they may have raised him, and they may have instilled certain values in him, but nobody aside from those who were there can ever ascertain what exactly was taught or instilled. Those folks may have been exemplary parents. It happens. Sometimes a foul and reprehensible person is that way despite having a good family background and wonderful parents.
Are you seriously saying that every crimebreaker's parents are responsible for those crimes? Well, then, by that logic, their parents were responsible for raising the parents who raised the crimbreaker, and the great-grandparents were responsible for them, and so on back to either Adam and Eve, or some pool of slime with amoebas, or whatever came first, so we may as well wipe the entire race, which includes you.
I'm sure you wouldn't like that :-)
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
U actually do not know the
U actually do not know the person who was wrongfully convicted or his family! Unless u know something about eitherside do not comment
thats the dumbest comment I've ever seen..
That is definitely the dumbest comment I've ever seen...If that was your family going through this or the victim of the crime that was commited would you be so quick to make that statement?! Doubt it.
Us vs Them
Hopefully Anon raises a Us and not a Them. Things could get tricky in his black and white world of saint and sinner. I'm willing to bet it's pretty gray right now, if looked at objectively, but cognitive dissonance is a funny thing.
That we're still fighting against these kinds in the 21st century has me worried.
If anon is really worried about misuse of his tax dollars, maybe he should back the decriminalization of drugs use for nonviolent offenders. Tax payers or on the hook for millions spent to police a sin crime that hurts no one directly but the user. Our prisons are overcrowded, on the taxpayer dime, because of it.
It's also the pressure that ends up paroling people that shouldn't be, making communities less safe.
"And I turned 23 in prison..."
doing life with parole....
You didn't get the words quite right.
http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/haggard-merle/m...
Careful of that Cowboy Lyrics site!!!
I got a virus from that site once.
Sorry
Hope that the site is not infectious currently.