One of my top ten reasons why Northeastern liberals should not be allowed to run government - at any level: they undermine the criminal justice system to the point of endangering public safety.

I had to laugh at this, though: "Police arrested him later at a doughnut shop." If you're a criminal trying to escape from the police, that's the last place I'd go to hide out.

What could be the reason these sick bastard judges keep letting child predators and rapists go?
I think it may be empathy for kindred souls.

Having dealt with a few of judges in my legal career, I can tell you exactly what's going on here: it's the overly close relationship between bench and bar. You're going to go hard on a fellow/buddy lawyer's client, when your bud gave you $$ for your last campaign?

Or, if your state doesn't have judicial elections, then you've still got a problem; the same def. lawyers sucking up to the judge day in day out, judge getting numb to the lawlessness he sees in his courtroom every day, just doesn't care anymore.

Either way, big problems.

Is it possible to hold this judge accountable
for enabling and complicity in the future
crimes these people committed?
I think this judge needs to be impeached,
and disbarred from being active in the "justice"
system forevermore.
Maybe a thorough criminal background check needs
to be done on him, finding out what are his secret
proclivities.

Elect judges and watch that nonsense stop.

There's no excuse for this crap. When judges do this and the criminals break more crimes, the judges should face trial for the crimes just as if they themselves had committed them.

The state that keeps bringing back Bawney Fwank, this should be no surprise at all.

Jay- don't ever, EVER feel guilty about dumping on the libtarded cesspool called assachusetts.

This jerkoff judge is not the first, mASS has a rich tradition of pathetic judges.

Anyone watch Judge Lopez!?
This angry cactus became famous not only with her disaster of a ruling, but the attitude in which she did it.

There was this scumbag named Charles Horton who pleaded guilty to kidnapping, assault with intent to rape a child under 16, and assault and battery by means of a dangerous weapon.
Horton dressed up as a woman and lead an 11-year old boy to an abandoned warehouse where he forced the boy to simulate sex acts after holding a screwdriver to the child's neck.

During the sentencing phase of the trial the Suffolk County District Attorney had requested for an eight to ten year jail sentence.
NOPE - When the DA tried to protest her WONDERFUL decision to sentence Horton to house arrest and five years of probation, Judge Lopez interupted and proceeded to chew out the prosecutor along the way referring to the case as a "low-level" offense.
This was caught on video thankfully..

The sentencing caused politicians in the state including then Governor Paul Cellucci to suggest that mandatory minimum sentencing should be enacted. Really has helped huh? ..pffft

The body that is suppose to look into these asshats of judges, the Commission on Judicial Conduct investigated and ruled that her ruling and behavior was OK, it was that she lied about her behavior. For that she should be punished. The Commission ruled that she ought to apologize and serve a six-month suspension.
Rather than apologizing and accepting a suspension, Judge Lopez resigned.

So the public is safer from sexual dirtbags, but will risk having their brains rot if they accidentally watch this twit on TV.

Any judge who is leient to sex offenders and child molesters should be kicked off the bench and barred from even judging a flower show

WOW what a bunch of morons. You forget about constitutional rights, the right to a fair trial, and the duties that judges and juries (and yes juries almost as often rule the same was as judges and reject SDP status for alleged offenders) are sworn to uphold.

Learn a little about the law, read the judge's opinions, and you might just be a little wiser.

Arm-chair reactionairies make me puke.