Mass Stupidity
“It’s because of stupidity in Massachusetts that my daughter is dead.” Grieving father Darrel Slater re violent ex-con Daniel Tavares and Judge Kathe Tuttman:
The father of a Washington woman slaughtered along with her new husband - allegedly at the hands of a convicted Bay State killer - said his daughter’s accused murderer never should have been released from prison here.
“It’s because of stupidity in Massachusetts that my daughter is dead,” said Darrel Slater, 55, who is preparing to bury his daughter, Beverly Mauck, 28, and her husband Brian Mauck, 30.
The couple was executed in their home in rural Graham, Wash., Saturday after an alleged argument with Daniel Tavares Jr., 41, who in 1991 pleaded guilty to hacking his mother to death with a carving knife in their Somerset home in served 16 years for that crime.
Tavares finished his sentence on June 14, but was immediately re-arrested on a warrant charging him with two counts of assaulting Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center prison guards during his troubled stint behind bars, Department of Correction officials said.
Worcester prosecutors requested $50,000 cash bail for each of those charges, an amount approved by Clinton District Court Judge Martha Brennan, according to court documents.
But Tavares appealed the bail and on July 16, Superior Court Judge Kathe Tuttman released him on personal recognizance. Tavares was freed and fled the state to marry and live in a Washington trailer with Jennifer Lynn Tavares, who met the convict at Walpole after answering an inmate personal ad. He defaulted on a July 23 court date, prosecutors said.
“How does a guy who killed his mother, get charged with more crimes, get out of jail? How can he leave the state?” an angry Slater said last night.
“That judge needs to get her head out of her (expletive). My little girl was only 28. She was a newlywed. They just started their lives. This never should have happened,” Slater said.
Reached last night at her Andover home, Tuttman, who was appointed to the bench by former Gov. Mitt Romney, said, “I’m sorry, I’m not able to comment on this.” When informed what the slain woman’s father had said, she repeated, “I’m sorry, I’m not able to comment about this.”
A spokesman for Worcester District Attorney Joseph D. Early said prosecutors had wanted to keep Tavares behind bars last summer and argued for high bail because of the brutality of the alleged attacks on correction officers.
Correction officer Michael Kasprzak was allegedly punched in the head as he removed restraints from Tavares in December 2005. Two months later, the con allegedly spat on correction officer Matthew Atter and screeched, “I’m going to kill you (expletive) . . . I’ll break your (expletive) arms off!” according to court records.
“Obviously, we tried to keep him incarcerated,” said Worcester DA spokesman Tim Connolly.
Tavares also was disciplined by the DOC for writing a series of bizarre and threatening letters to his father, Daniel Tavares Sr. The elder Tavares complained about the letters to a DOC victim advocate, but they did not stop, he told the Herald yesterday.
In one letter, Tavares wrote about receiving a college education behind bars and learning seven languages.
He described his achievement this way:
“Only in Massachusetts.”
From the state that brought you Willie Horton. This time, it’s a judge appointed by a Republican candidate rather than the policy of a Democratic candidate’s administration. Bit of a knothole in the tough-on-crime platform.
Details of the crime here. Tavares resume here.
Freed con’s Dad slept with a gun under his pillow.
Another Mass mistake here.
Surber, “The Slow Learner State.” Ouch. Coming from West Virginia, that hurts!
Malkin: “Only in Massachusetts.”
Captains Quarters: Not Mitt’s Horton
Welcome Malkinistas, Surberistas, etal. That’s not the only outrage of the day. Here’s another. And another. This is just funny, though.
Topics: crime, punishment
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 10:30 am on Wednesday, November 21, 2007
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November 21st, 2007 at 11:13 am
[...] Jules Crittenden called it Mass Stupidity. [...]
November 21st, 2007 at 11:41 am
Ass stupidity in, Massachusetts. Superior Court Judge Kathe Tuttman . Don’t give a damn who or whom “appointed” her. This lady is stupid…Do these robes make my ass look fat, stupid!
November 21st, 2007 at 12:27 pm
[...] Jules Crittenden takes a closer look at Mass Stupidity. [...]
November 21st, 2007 at 12:54 pm
[...] Horrible. What’s even more horrible is that this stupidity isn’t an isolated incident. [...]
November 21st, 2007 at 1:02 pm
Unfortunately, this sort of thing isn’t confined to the state of Massachussetts.
Sixteen years for hacking your mother to bits. Hmmmmm. Perhaps this is a place to start.
November 21st, 2007 at 1:23 pm
Liberalism kills. No matter which party perpetrates it.
November 21st, 2007 at 2:43 pm
Here’s the story of two scumbags rightfully executed by the state of California (info from Wiki).
Clarence Ray Allen (January 16, 1930 – January 17, 2006) was an American prison inmate who was executed by lethal injection on January 17, 2006 at San Quentin State Prison in California for the murders of three people… He was already serving a life sentence for one murder when he was convicted of organizing the killing of three more people.
Donald Jay Beardslee (May 13, 1943 – January 19, 2005) was a United States murderer executed by means of a lethal injection in San Quentin State Prison, California…In 1969 in Missouri, he choked, stabbed and drowned Laura Griffin, whom he had just met. They met in a bar, he went home with her and killed her. Beardslee turned himself in and confessed to the killing. He was convicted and served seven years before being released on parole…Four years after leaving prison, he was arrested in California for the April 25, 1981 drug-related homicide of 19-year-old Patty Geddling and 23-year-old Stacie Benjamin in Redwood City, California.
A host of other scumbags have similar histories (commission of heinous crimes, followed by early release, or parole, or escape, and then the murder or murders which finally get them sent to death row).
For example, William Bonin was executed after being convicted of the rape and murder of 14 boys in 1979-80. Prior to those murders Bonin had been placed in a state mental hospital in 1969 for molesting young boys. He was released in 1974, and while on probation kidnapped and raped two boys in 1975. In 1978 he was released again…and then came all those murders. At that point the state of California finally figured out that this guy wasn’t going to clean up his act, and actually got around to punching his clock in 1996.
Nothing unusal about this case in Massachusetts. Same old shit…different day.
November 21st, 2007 at 2:44 pm
We got some loopy judges that would do this in Florida too.
Curious thing about murderous criminals warehoused in prisons — they’re not out killing the citizenry.
November 21st, 2007 at 2:50 pm
“Curious thing about murderous criminals warehoused in prisons — they’re not out killing the citizenry.”
See the case of Clarence Ray Allen.
November 21st, 2007 at 3:37 pm
All the more reason to juice’em quick.
November 21st, 2007 at 3:41 pm
Career scumbag criminal released over and over again by the state of California, until he finally kidnapped and murdered a 12 year old girl.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Allen_Davis
Check out this piece of garbage’s priors. The court system in the state of California ought to be on death row too. If what they did isn’t aiding and abetting murder…nothing is.
November 21st, 2007 at 4:13 pm
A decade ago when I was following FBI stats closely, typically about 10% of the cops murdered in this country were done by people with prior arrests for murder.
November 21st, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Unfortunately, Saltydog is right. It’s not unique to Massachusetts. We seem to be headed the way of the UK, where it’s fast becoming illegal to even defend yourself.
November 21st, 2007 at 6:55 pm
“Unfortunately, Saltydog is right.”
As usual.
November 21st, 2007 at 9:57 pm
To all Yanks…Happy Thanksgiving. We have much to be thankful for, despite. And Remember OUR (allies included) TROOPS!
Cross posted at Critt’s cousin…Blair of OZ….:).
November 21st, 2007 at 11:10 pm
Oh yes, Cid, I’ll add my felicitations for a wonderful day.
Happy Thanksgiving Day to all, especially the troops, who have my everlasting thanks!