And people wonder why the criminal justice system can’t provide justice …this looks like it is a GPS issue …unless you read past the first sentence.
It never ceases to amaze me how important positions like judges and sheriffs can be elective …these are roles for legal scholars and correction and law enforcement specialists …not political hacks.
For years now the people of Massachusetts have been spending time and money determining if a judge’s ego overrules a sheriff’s common sense and authority to run his office as the law directs.
And in the meantime? What has been accomplished in the important area of crime and punishment? Not much.
Belmont,Mass. –
When Middlesex County Superior Court Judge Diane Kottmyer discovered the local sheriff had released a dozen prisoners early,placing them instead in an at-home GPS monitoring program,she quickly ordered them thrown back into jail.
The program,she said during an October 2007 hearing,violates judicial authority to determine sentences and to have those sentences carried out.
But on an appeal from Middlesex County Sheriff James DiPaola,the Supreme Judicial Court overruled Kottmyer’s decision 6-1 on Friday,arguing a GPS program is consistent with reentry programs supported by the Legislature and should be subject to the discretion of the local sheriff,not the sentencing judge…Rest of the ongoing Massachusetts legal ego story is here,if you have the stomach for it.
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