Husband of Ayanna Pressley benefited from Rollins’s new approach to traffic violations

Boston Globe ^ | 7/06/19 | Shelley Murphyand Andrea Estes

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

Conan Harris, the husband of Representative Ayanna Pressley, was driving his wife and daughter to Logan International Airport in March when he was stopped by a State Police trooper and charged with driving on a suspended license.

He was scheduled for arraignment in East Boston Municipal Court on May 13 but didn’t show up. Even so, prosecutors dismissed the charge.

Harris didn’t realize it, but he had directly benefited from Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins’s pledge to stop enforcement of 15 “low-level” offenses, including driving without a valid license.

And Harris said he appreciated what the new district attorney is doing.

“I was flabbergasted,” said Harris, adding that he immediately paid the civil fine and had his license reinstated the next day.

Harris said he didn’t show up for his arraignment because he had recently moved and didn’t get the summons to appear until afterward. When Harris received the summons, he said, he rushed to the courthouse and was told the case had been dismissed.

However, a Globe review of more than 1,000 criminal cases filed in district courts since January shows that some of the motor vehicle cases being dropped by Rollins’s office involve allegations more serious than those against Harris, including accidents resulting in injuries and people who are repeatedly stopped for driving without licenses or insurance.

For example, Wilmer Salgado-Gonzalez, 34, of Chelsea, was driving without a license when he collided with another car in Revere in January. An 11-year-old boy in the back seat struck his head on the window and had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance. Still, prosecutors dropped the case under Rollins’s policy. Salgado-Gonzalez told the Globe the other driver was at fault.

[DeathBeforeDishonor1]

Hey hey hey alright! Free good times just like when Obama was Prez!

[Gay State Conservative]

This is Boston,boys and girls...so it needn't be mentioned that this policy only applies to those “of color”...pasty-a$$ honkeys need not apply!

[kearnyirish2]

More erosion of the WASP ideals that made this country great; expectations of law-abiding behavior are racist.

[ronnie raygun]

Now that we have this “no fault elitists and their families” and illegals allowed to get drivers licenses, “we the people” who are now “we the fools” are now going to pay astronomical no fault insurance to cover the irresponsible who are covered by LAWS enacted by politicians

[kearnyirish2]

“We the people” are slowly dwindling away as the costs of those who will never assimilate in a WASP culture burden workers to the point where they won’t breed.

[Stosh]

Quick internet search indicates the license renewal fee in Massachusetts is $50 - given the info in this article, why would anyone bother to renew their license?

[FoxInSocks]

An 11-year-old boy in the back seat struck his head on the window and had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance.

He went to the hospital in an ambulance — I doubt he “had to be taken.”

[AmericanCheeseFood]

Thought no license = no insurance . .

[MrRelevant]

Trespassing
Shoplifting (including offenses that are essentially shoplifting but charged as larceny)
Larceny under $250
Disorderly conduct
Disturbing the peace
Receiving stolen property
Minor driving offenses, including operating with a suspend or revoked license
Breaking and entering — where it is into a vacant property or where it is for the purpose of sleeping or seeking refuge from the cold and there is no actual damage to property
Wanton or malicious destruction of property
Threats – excluding domestic violence
Minor in possession of alcohol
Drug possession
Drug possession with intent to distribute
A stand alone resisting arrest charge, i.e. cases where a person is charged with resisting arrest and that is the only charge
A resisting arrest charge combined with only charges that all fall under the list of charges to decline to prosecute, e.g. resisting arrest charge combined only with a trespassing charge

Here is the list of “decline to prosecute” offenses. And Marty Walsh is wondering why people shit on police and shoot each other.

[Vermont Lt]

The DA in my county (Hampden) hasn’t stopped prosecuting anyone. He is on a jihad against the judges who let repeat offenders out of jail all of the time.

[moovova]

How long before a shooting, not resulting in a death, is added to the freebie list?

BOSTON (WHDH) — City leaders are searching for answers after police say 16 people have been shot in Boston since the Fourth of July.