"Ed Hulett -> Ross Sauer"  wrote in
news:19539$MATZDOBRE{at}JamNNTPd:

 EH>>> Like the Pierce County judge who let him out on bail only a
 EH>   couple EH>> weeks before he murdered the Lakewood cops.

 RS>> Him too.

 EH> Every judge who thought Clemmons was redeemable is at fault. Clemmons
 EH> proved to have been a sociopath from a very young age.

More like a bark-at-the-moon psychopath.

 RS>>>> Including Pass-The-Buckabee.

 EH>>> Huckabee should have come out and admitted he made a mistake,
 EH>   but then EH>> he's a politician and politicians are always
 EH>   blameless. Just ask them.

 RS>> Yup.

 EH> It was a letter Clemmons wrote to Huckabee that made Huckabee think he
 EH> could be put back in society. Of course, Huckabee pardoned Keith
 EH> Richards for a speeding ticket after meeting him at a concert. I never
 EH> was a Huckabee supporter, but I would have respected the man more if
 EH> he had accepted responsibility for Clemmons only serving 11 years of a
 EH> 108 year sentence. Instead Huckabee blamed "the system."
The fact that
 EH> he was a major part of that system as governor apparently hasn't
 EH> crossed his mind.

Yeah, it's all everyone else's fault, but his. (sarcasm off)

I read that Huckabee granted clemency or commuted the sentence of twice
as many as the previous *THREE* governors combined. That includes Tucker
and Clinton.

 RS>>>> Pulaski County Prosecutor Larry Jegley, whose office opposed
 EH>>>   Clemmons' RS> parole in 2000 and 2004, said Huckabee's
 EH>   comments were EH>>   "red herrings."

 EH>>> The reason Huckabee never heard from the prosecutors office was
 EH>   that EH>> Huckabee's office never contacted them for comment.

 RS>> I'm not surprised.

 RS>>>> "My word to Mr. Huckabee is man up and own what
you did,"
 EH>   Jegley EH>>   said.

 EH>>> Huckabee's actions were only the first in a series of errors
 EH>   that kept EH>> Clemmons on the street.

 RS>> The guy was a time bomb, and he finally went off.

 EH> How many violent crimes must he commit before "[going] off?"

And you know who is filling up those jail cells that guys like Clemmons
should be in?

Non-violent offenders, especially the victims of the "War On Drugs" who
were caught smoking a little weed.

--- Xnews/5.04.25