Posted on 06/28/2006 9:36:57 AM PDT by edzo4
Judge bemoans lack of driver ed for illegal who killed man By O’Ryan Johnson Wednesday, June 28, 2006 - Updated: 01:03 AM EST
A Salem woman whose longtime friend and tenant was killed by an illegal alien driving without a license says she is shocked a judge not only reduced the man’s sentence, but took time to lament the lack of driver’s training for illegals during the sentencing.
Alex Costa, 28, of Peabody pleaded guilty to striking and killing Richard Golin, 49, and was sentenced to nine months. But Judge Robert Cornetta turned him over to immigration agents Monday for deportation to Brazil with only 163 days served.
Cornetta reportedly used the occasion to decry the fact that illegal immigrants don’t have access to driver training, saying it raised public policy concerns.
“What we will never know is whether Mr. Costa had some kind of driver training, if perhaps this tragedy would never have occurred,” the judge said, according to the Salem News. He could not be reached last night.
Mullen, 68, who took in Golin as a boarder 20 years ago, was outraged over Cornetta’s comments.
“He’s not even supposed to be in this country,” an exasperated Mullen said about Costa.
She said Golin was a beloved neighborhood figure. “My mother lived to be 106 and a half and she loved Richie. He used to say ‘Hi Girdie,’ and she’d say ‘Hi Richie.’ She never forgot his name.”
Unreal.
its alright the democrats just told me that this illegal was only running down the elderly american citizens that americans won't run down : )
More lives ruined thanks to our insane open-borders policy and the enablers who support it.
Just another in the ever growing list of judges who need to be taken off the bench.
I see. So I suppose the drowining death of MaryJo Kopechne could have been prevented if Ted Kennedy had taken scuba diving lessons. This is just more passing the back and assigning Zero responsibility to the one who committed the crime. It makes me want to puke.
omg judge just rule if you must but keep your inane personal opinion commentary to yourself at least while you are on the bench.
Apparently the Kops stop illegals driving unregistered, uninsured cars all the time in Massachusetts and let 'em go. Almost all uninsured cars are driven by illegals in the PRM. (sigh.)
Can you imagine going to Canada or England or France(!) and driving around in an unregistered, uninsured car? Sheesh. Only having the accidents Americans won't have.
As a demonstration on FOX 25, a cop in some town (not one with heavy infestations like Framingham) took a reporter and cameraman on patrol and said that the first car he stopped would be an unregisterd illegal. It took two hours, but he made good. Think about it. A cop in a relatively "white" town in a "white" state can go out and reel in an illegal, driving an unregistered car in two hours, any time he wants.
Driver's Ed -- is that all he's complaining about? Gee, I bemoan the fact that we can't elect an illegal alient POTUS.
< /sarcasm >
In Nashville not long ago, a driver with "dozens" of arrests for intoxication hit and killed a couple. Supposedly it was never reported or picked up on that he was in the US illegally.
errr ahhhh I think I needed some scuba driving instructions, burp... where is my dog splash?
Does the perp even speak English?
This is happening in other states as well. I have a nephew who quit the police force because of what he was being told during training by his mentor in the police department. He was told if you stop an illegal on the wrong side of the road, drunk driving, for any reason whatsoever, let the illegal go. He couldn't handle this type of attitude towards the law being broken and left the police force.
This judge should be fair game, especially for those of us who did have drivers ed.
Its called anarcho-tyranny - the law is only enforced against people trying not to break it...
I certainly do not care much for Bill O'Reilly but I will give him credit for shining light on the scum that is dressed in judicial robes. Here, I am surprised that a Boston paper would call attention to this sorry excuse for an officer of the court. I believe it only goes to show what bad shape our court system must be in when you can read about in the Boston Herald.
no doubt but this is the conservative paper in town
I have seen no mention of this story in the bastard child of the NY times that is the Boston globe.
Mexico, Brazil, Columbia -- according to Bush, et al, all our brown brothers are SUPERIOR to those of us whose great-grandparents stood in line to get in. If a "citizen" (whatever that is these days) had killed the man, he's be going away for a loonnng time.
"Whom God would destroy, He first makes insane."
Must go now and don my EPA unapproved asbestos BVDs as I hear the Bushbots warming up their flamethrowers.
What ticks me off is that the police make a big thing about being insured -- huge fines and jail time if you aren't.
Illegals, OTOH, get a pass and are set free.
Lawlessness pays off.
Yes, Gustavo Garcia Reyes, arrested 17 times, driving without a valid license (either had been revoked or never had one).
Because many of them have no identification or multiple false ID's; because there are too many of them to pack the jails with; because there's no place to impound the cars; because they'll make bail and disappear without any locational address; and finally, because the Feds often refuse to charge or deport them. And - in the unlikely event that one gets charged and convicted, the sentence is often time served in custody, which means they're back out on the street and free to pick up the SSI and welfare checks waiting for them at the Post Office.
49 is elderly?
I disagree with bush giving the illegals amnesty but if ted kennedy hadn't let them all in 1986 in the first place we would have not such a problem now
no I misread the part about the 106 year old, and thought that was the victims age
sorry if I offended any boomers
I was not aware that Boston had a paper which was not to left of Lenin.
I'm not going to miss that show. I'll be most interested in the calls that Tancredo takes on the air - I expect you are going to hear a lot of "thank you's" and "God bless you's" - and national Republicans would do well to pay attention.
So the key to surviving the police is to have no identity? Sounds like we're victims of our citizenship.
Having multiple identities, false papers, etc. should be grounds for NO bail and automatic deportation.
Just one. ;-)
Amen, brother - but that's not how it is currently treated. Non-citizens increasingly have more "rights" than citizens. If you or I were caught driving drunk without a license in an unregistered vehicle - we'd spend a good long time seeing the world through iron bars. But the illegals? They don't need no stinkin' licenses.
OK we need a new Federally funded program for all cops to attend: "Training for Driver Instruction Trainers for Criminals" or "Learn the best way to teach law breakers to drive" or "Spanish as a second language for law enforcement personnel charged with the responsibility to teach driver ed to criminals"
Helping to balance the books on Social Security and Medicare, just like the Prez told us!
Oh, it's for the work -- not driver safety. Never mind.
-PJ
Good question! The last time I was in Germany, I noticed the car radios had a special station that reported traffic conditions and alerts for the Autobahn. I asked my host if they served a real purpose or if they were just another technical gadget. He replied that they were very helpful in avoiding trouble spots caused by people going the wrong way in traffic. I said "that surely cannot happen all that much". He replied "it happens everyday". It turns out that since the EU removed all the borders, many "guest workers" share the Autobahn and many or most cannot read German. Of course it doesn't help that, except for the Autobahn, there are few highway signs of any sort! (they post the name of the next town and the distance, it's hard to follow a map as the highways aren't identified)
Regards,
GtG
Sheesh where I live it would take them all of 30 seconds to pull over an illegal driving.
We have so many accidents, murders, etc. by them anymore the news quit stating whether they are legal or not.
I only have to drive two towns over and the bank ATM is in portugese and you have to select if you want english.
it should at least be in english first.
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