Paroled Rapist Could Haunt Huckabee

CBS News Website ^ | 12/4/07 | Brian Montopoli.

[NavVet]

In 1985, DuMond was convicted of the rape of a 17-year-old girl with a connection to then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton: She was the governor's distant cousin and the daughter of a major campaign contributor... When Huckabee became governor in 1996, he expressed doubts about DuMond's guilt and said he was considering commuting his sentence to time served. After the victim and her supporters protested, Huckabee decided against commutation. But in 1997, according to the Kansas City Star, Huckabee wrote a letter to DuMond saying "my desire is that you be released from prison." Less than a year later, DuMond was granted parole.

Huckabee's office denied that the governor played a role in the parole board's decision, but there was evidence (exhaustively detailed here) to contradict that claim.

Charles Chastain, a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, who was on the parole board at the time, told CBSNews.com the governor met with the board to argue on DuMond’s behalf.

"He thought DuMond had gotten a raw deal," said Chastain, who calls himself neutral towards Huckabee. "He said he'd been born on the wrong side of the tracks and hadn't been treated all that fairly."

DuMond's release was delayed because a number of states did not want to take him in, but he left prison in 1999 and ended up in Missouri. Not long after he arrived, he was arrested again - this time for sexually assaulting and murdering a woman named Carol Sue Shields. DuMond was also the leading suspect in the rape and murder of another woman. He was convicted of murdering Shields and died in prison in 2005.

[NavVet]

Can you say Willie Horton.

[wideawake]

This is bad for Huckabee for two reasons:

(1) He was soft on a dangerous criminal.

(2) He was soft on a dangerous criminal because he was apparently motivated by political animus against President Clinton and not by the actual underlying facts of the case.

He acted like a liberal to get back at a liberal, and now two innocent women are dead.

[CatoRenasci]

I remember this case at the time, there were a lot of conservatives who thought the Clintons had been involved in railroading DuMond.

[KC_Conspirator]

If a democrat did this, we would all be outraged here.

[agere_contra]

Great is the truth, and it prevails.

The secondary issue here is that CBS are doing us all a big favour by torpedoing Huckabee, though perhaps they don’t realize it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

There was a whole contingent of Freepers supporting Wayne DuMond at the time.

Turns out he really was a bad-guy.

[AuntB]

Huckabee wrote a letter to DuMond saying "my desire is that you be released from prison." Less than a year later, DuMond was granted parole.

Yesterday Laura Ingraham read the letter that Huck wrote DuMond.........yep, just another liberal with a bible tucked under his arm.

[wideawake]

I remember this case at the time, there were a lot of conservatives who thought the Clintons had been involved in railroading DuMond.

A lot of people became obsessed with tagging President Clinton with every crime in America and with imaginary crimes as well.

It was just excessive and made some conservatives look like moonbats.

The reality of what the Clintons have documentedly done is damning enough.

[Dr. Sivana]

I don’t see this working against him in a general election. Huckabee paroled a bad guy. The Clintons PARDONED FALN terrorists who planted bombs.

No comparison.

[Nephi]

The Romney’s enemies tried to take him down for a judge he appointed who let a criminal go, but in the Huckster’s case, he personally let the criminal go...Arkansas has contributed enough to the decline of our Republic.

[OB1kNOb]

Ping - I can still remember when the Huckster pardoned this pervert against the outcry across the state. Right then I knew there was more to the Huckster than the squeeky clean image he let be shown in public.

[wideawake]

I don’t see this working against him in a general election.

I do.

The Clintons PARDONED FALN terrorists who planted bombs.

One, the MSM will not portray both cases equally. Two, unless the Huckabee campaign can show that one of the FALN terrorists murdered and raped two women after he was pardoned, they are at a huge propaganda disadvantage.

[NeoCaveman]

From Crime Library:

January 2004, DuMond was sentenced again to life in prison for the 2000 murder of Carol Sue Shields, 39. Shields was found bound and suffocated "on the bed in the apartment of a man with whom she had been having an affair," Dana Fields said in an AP Online article. DNA evidence, which was found under the victim's nails, linked DuMond to the crime. Aside from the 1985 rape conviction, DuMond had also been previously arrested for sexual assaults in 1972, 1973 and in 1976.

[LadyNavyVet]

It might not work against him in the general, but it’s not going to help him in the primary with law and order Republicans.

[Badeye]

Its not going to have the impact that Huckabee’s insane tuition for illegals is having right now.

[M203M4]

DuMond had gotten a raw deal...born on the wrong side of the tracks...

Because DuMond was born on the "wrong side of the tracks", Huckabee put DuMond on the wrong side of the FENCE.

I thought the American ideal was that it didn't matter who your parents were, or whether you were rich or poor - every man should be treated equally in the eyes of the law. And Huckabee has softness for certain criminals (including criminal invaders) because of their social background? What is this exactly, more "compassionate conservatism"??

[RushingWater]

Why oh why does the GOP not have anybody? I guess my top 2 are Fred Thompson and Duncan Hunter but they just can’t seem to get traction and I can’t seem to get pumped up about them. Huckabee has kind of that scary Jimmy Carter side where in the name of religion he does a lot of dangerous naive things.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

I remember this case at the time, there were a lot of conservatives who thought the Clintons had been involved in railroading DuMond.

Yeah, that's the way I remember it as well.

[Dr. Sivana]

It might not work against him in the general, but it’s not going to help him in the primary with law and order Republicans.

Agreed. But there isn't a top-tier candidate who doesn't have at least one serious fracture in his "law-and-order" image. Giuliani wanted to be the law and order guy, but he has more problems along these lines than the rest of the candidates put together.

Frankly, I see an extremely unusual cycle where six candidates have no good reason to drop out. Each candidate has a base of support that will neither grow nor shrink past a certain point. Giuliani will STILL do well in the leftist bastions of the northeast and west coast. Iowa may not win it for Huckabee, but it certainly won't hurt him either. McCain can finish in second in New Hampshire, win Arizona, and hope for a brokered convention. Thompson should fare well in the south and the rural midwest. Romney will pick up Michigan, Mormon heavy states (nothing against LDS, but there is no doubt that Mormons tend to support Mormons). And Paul has no reason to drop out. His small but committed base will stick with him, and he can be a bit of a pest in crossover states, especially if the Dem race is uncompetitive.

I don't see Paul turniing over his handful of delegates to anybody.

I don't see any of the other five turning over delegates without a candidate with a clear path to a majority of delegates. Except for maybe Huckabee, none of these guys makes a very good VEEP prospect.

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Two, unless the Huckabee campaign can show that one of the FALN terrorists murdered and raped two women after he was pardoned,....

Refresh my memory, was this before or after DuMond as castrated? My recollection is that the for a long time the sheriff of St. Francis county had DuMond's testicles displayed in a jar on the sheriff's desk.

[HAL9000]

Ping - I can still remember when the Huckster pardoned this pervert against the outcry across the state

For your information, OObie-the-nOObie - about 99% of Free Republic were calling for DuMond's release at the time.

[Prokopton]

Its not going to have the impact that Huckabee’s insane tuition for illegals is having right now.

Do you think Huckabee is shooting up in the polls because of his advocacy of instate tuition for illegal aliens?

[OB1kNOb]

For your information, OObie-the-nOObie - about 99% of Free Republic were calling for DuMond's release at the time.

Oooooooook! I guess that makes me in the 1% that was in the right then. I know you and I are on different sides of the Huckster, Hal, but I still like you.

[hunter112]

Huckabee has kind of that scary Jimmy Carter side where in the name of religion he does a lot of dangerous naive things.

You've captured my fears about the Huckster in a nutshell. If we can get it effectively shortened down to a bumper sticker, we might have a chance to head off this simple-minded bumpkin.

[Defiant]

They are doing their best to torpedo Thompson and ignore Hunter. I hope the voters in South Carolina start things going the right direction. I also am exceedingly sick of caring what the middle of the road dirt farmers in Iowa think about the latest candidate who walked down their streets just to kiss their collective asses. My county has more votes than their entire boring state, yet we don't have a say in who gets coverage in the early going.

[wideawake]

Refresh my memory, was this before or after DuMond as castrated?

After.

However, contrary to popular belief, males castrated after puberty retain the ability to maintain an erection and maintain sexual desire.

Only if someone is castrated before puberty are they then asexual in appetites and abilities.

[HoustonTech]

"It's an unfortunate incident," said Carter, Huckabee's director of research, of the DuMond case. "He is devastated by what happened, but he felt he did no wrongful action."

That's just what Wayne DuMond said.

[Badeye]

‘Do you think Huckabee is shooting up in the polls because of his advocacy of instate tuition for illegal aliens?’

No, I think thats happening because he’s relatively unknown position wise, and had a couple of snappy answers in the past two debates.

The more people learn, the less likely he is to keep gaining in the polling game.

[Migraine]

Paroled Rapist Could Haunt Huckabee

Only if Pardoned Marc Rich haunts the hildebeeste.

[HAL9000]

Likewise, Mr. O.

[Pining_4_TX]

If I were related to that murdered woman, I would send Huckabee a Christmas card every year reminding him that my loved one was no longer with us thanks to him.

I think this was purely political on H’s part. He did this in an attempt to make Clinton look bad. Shame on Huckabee. I wonder if it bothers these politicians, judges, and parole boards when they turn predators loose to rape and kill again? Nah, they aren’t sent to their guarded and gated communities.

[LadyNavyVet]

I agree. I think we could come out of the early primaries without a clear winner.

[Recovering_Democrat]

In 1985, DuMond was convicted of the rape of a 17-year-old girl with a connection to then-Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton: She was the governor's distant cousin and the daughter of a major campaign contributor...

Bill Clinton should've been investigated for rape. See B.S. News can shove it.

[RushingWater]

Hmm

DuMond had also been previously arrested for sexual assaults in 1972, 1973 and in 1976.

I think a wise man would have been more cautious than to let him go free. Plus there's just that creepy look.

[KC_Conspirator]

So how did Dumond snowjob Huckabee? Did he just say he was a born again and tuck a Bible under his arm?

[DoughtyOne]

As Conservatives most us hold a very dim view of inappropriate paroles meeted out to prison imates.  If those inmates go on to cause serious injury to subsequent victims we rail on those who have had sympathy for the prison inmate and have aided in their release.

Such an instance is being heralded these days concerning Mick Huckabee.  It's the old Willie Horton case all over again.  Or is it?

I would encourage forum paticipants to read the following article circa 1996, in which the case for Wayne Dumond is made.  Read this article for a description of what took place back in the day.  See if you could fault someone for thinking this guy got railroaded.

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NEW GOVERNOR REOPENS CASE EMBARRASSING TO CLINTON
Hope for Justice Rekindled
By Cathy Tapie, July 29, 1996
The Washington Weekly, (http://dolphin.gulf.net)

A spokesman for Arkansas' new Governor Huckabee has told the Washington Weekly that an old case of injustice in Arkansas will be re-opened. The case could turn out to be very embarrassing to Bill Clinton.

The story reads like a scenario right out of the movie "Deliverance" and is not recommended for the faint of heart. Reported on June 2, 1996 in the New York Post and chronicled in the book "Unequal Justice," it starts around 1984 and goes like this:

Forty nine year-old Wayne Dumond, father of six and Vietnam Veteran, had been telling his church congregation about suddenly disappearing automobiles in their community. It would later turn out that the local county sheriff, Coolidge Conlee, was the culprit. It seems he was running, among other things (a casino at the Sheriff's office and drug running), a handy little car- theft ring. The sheriff was corrupt. Which is not necessarily unusual for Arkansas.

Needless to say, Wayne Dumond's vocality about disappearing cars was a thorn in this sheriff's side.

Long about this same time frame, a 17 year old girl was allegedly kidnapped and raped. But the girl was Governor Bill Clinton's cousin, a little known fact and well kept secret at the time. Her father is also a millionaire and a big contributor to Bill Clinton's various election campaigns and her mother worked in Governor Clinton's "inner circle."

Guess which innocent man got fingered and ultimately convicted despite overwhelming (suppressed) evidence of his innocence? Wayne Dumond. But this is where the story turns even uglier.

While an innocent Wayne Dumond was awaiting sentencing (later meted out at life plus 20 years), it seems that two masked men, acting on orders of the corrupt county Sheriff Coolidge Conlee, burst into Wayne's home. They had guns and knives. They hog tied Wayne. They raped him. Then, as if that wasn't enough, with surgical scalpels, they castrated him.

If it hadn't been for Dumond's two sons coming home from school and calling for help, Dumond might well have bled to death.

But there's more.

After the Sheriff Conlee's sociopathic cretins had had their way with Wayne and finished their brutal amateur surgical procedure - even as he lay in a hospital bed, near death, after having lost 3/4 of his blood supply from his butchered groin, the good Sheriff went to the Dumond family's bloodied home and retrieved the body parts so that he could display them in a jar on his desk with a caption that read: "That's what happens to people who fool around in my county."

What did Bill Clinton do about it? Absolutely nothing. In fact, after 4-1/2 years in prison, the parole board decided to release Dumond. But did Bill Clinton sign the release?

As reported in the New York Post, according to the managing editor of the Arkansas Democrat Gazette, Bill Clinton had a "romping, stomping fit" about it. He refused to sign the release.

Even though their innocent father was doing time in prison after having his manhood mutilated, the Dumond family did have a modicum of relief when they were awarded $20,000 in a lawsuit of "outrage." But that money went to compensate for damages when someone (I wonder who?) burned down the family home while they were in hiding from vigilantes and no insurance was paid.

It is now 12 years later and where is this cast of characters?

- Wayne Dumond? Still in prison

- Governor Bill Clinton? President of the United States.

- Sheriff Coolidge Conlee? Died in prison after being sentenced to 160 years on extortion and drug-dealing charges. But he was never punished for his crimes against Wayne Dumond.

- The allegedly raped girl and her parents? Not yet identified and probably living happily ever after.

- The alleged rapist(s)? Of the two men the girl initially identified (before she was "talked to" by her father and Sheriff Conlee), it is alleged that she dated one of them. Neither has been charged.

- The "vigilantes" that burned down the Dumond home? Not caught.

- The deranged amateur surgeons? Not caught.

Will the guilty be caught and punished? Is there light at the end of the tunnel for Wayne Dumond? Even though Dumond will never have his manhood back, will the new governor of Arkansas sign his release and see that the guilty are punished?

"We are very aware of the case. The governor is awaiting Dumond's application for clemency to be submitted to the Arkansas Post Prison Transfer Board," says Huckabee spokesman Jim Harris, "State law requires that this be done before the governor can consider it, so we are just waiting for the application and the governor will then be able to review the whole thing and do what is right and fair." The new governor of Arkansas has his work cut out for him on this one.

This case is not just about Arkansas corruption. This case is not just about injustice in Arkansas under Governor Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton has taken his operation national and into the White House. There is mounting evidence that points to an equal level of corruption and egregious violation of civil rights at the highest levels of the White House. Perhaps Arkansas justice will finally be served under Governor Mike Huckabee, but will justice ever be served while or even after Bill Clinton and his kind have run the United States of America?

Time will tell.

[Printed in the July 29, 1996 issue of the Washington Weekly]

http://192.80.61.73/WebVAX/WWeekly/WW29Jul96Dumond.html