On Nov 29, 9:08 pm, "GWashingtonFan" <GWashingtonFan_USA> wrote:
> HEADLINE (see below):
>
> "Huckabee commuted sentence of man tied to police slayings"
>
> RINO Schwarzenegger says California shouldn't deny welfare, health
> care and a myriad of other super-expensive tax benefits to the SWARMS
> of illegal aliens present in that state so, when a severe fiscal
> shortfall forces the state to either stop all public benefits and
> payments to illegal aliens *or* release tense of thousands of dangerous
> criminals from prison, he chooses the latter -- thereby putting ALL
> Californians at even worse risk of being victimized than they already
> are.
>
> How many of the 40,000+ (probably half of them illegals) that RINO
> Schwarzenegger is planning to release will go on -- like the homicidal
> dirtbag released by RINO Governor Mike Huckabee -- to commit more
> crimes, even mass murder?
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>
> Huckabee commuted sentence of man tied to police slayings
>
> By SCOTT GUTIERREZ and MICHELLE NICOLOSI
>
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
> 11/29/09
>
> Maurice Clemmons, 37, was identified late Sunday by the Pierce County
> Sheriff's Office as a man sought for questioning . Clemmons has pending
> charges in Pierce County Superior Court for second-degree child rape
> and third-degree assault for an attack on a police officer. He was
> released from custody in those cases after posting a $150,000 bond,
> according to the Lakewood Police Department.
>
> Long before coming to Washington, Clemmons was serving a 35-year prison
> term in Arkansas for armed robbery but his sentence was commuted by
> then-Gov. Huckabee, who unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination
> in his 2008 presidential bid, according to the Arkansas Times Web site.
>
> After his release, he committed two armed robberies and other crimes
> and was sentenced to 10 years, but was later paroled, according to this
> column in the Arkansas Leader.
>
> You can see more from Clemmons' criminal case in Arkansas here.
>
> Huckabee, who was Arkansas governor for more than eight years beginning
> in 1996, granted sentence reductions to more than 111 people during his
> time in office. In commuting Clemmons' sentence Huckabee cited the fact
> that Clemmons was a teen-ager when he committed his crimes.
>
> 'You have broken your mother's heart'
>
> In 1990, the then 18-year-old Clemmons was sentenced as a habitual
> criminal to 60 years in prison for burglary and theft of property.
>
> Just before he was sentenced Clemmons reportedly took a padlock off his
> holding cell and tried to throw it a court bailiff, but accidentally
> struck his mother, who had come to bring him street clothes.
>
> "You have broken your mother's heart," Circuit Court Judge Floyd Lofton
> said as he handed down the prison term, according to coverage in the
> Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
>
> " I have broken my own heart," Clemmons responded, according to the
> coverage of his sentencing.
>
> Clemmons was found guilty of breaking into the home of a state trooper
> and taking more than $6,000 in valuables, including the trooper's gun.
>
> In May of 1989, Clemmons was arrested for allegedly carrying a weapon
> on a Little Rock, Ark., high school campus. Clemmons, then 17,
> reportedly told officers he brought a .25-caliber pistol to school
> because he had "been chased and beaten by 'dopers,' " and if they got
> after him again he "had something for them."
>
> Described as 'nice', 'generous'
>
> Pierce County neighbors of Clemmons described him as friendly and a
> hard worker. He "was always very decent, very nice, very generous,"
> said across the street neighbor Kerstin Horning, 44. "He was always
> friendly and hard-working," working at both a pressure washing and a
> landscaping business, she said.
>
> Horning celebrated July 4 at a party at Clemmons' house a few years
> ago. And when her son recently had a birthday, Clemmons gave him a card
> with some money in it as a gift.
>
> Another neighbor said Clemmons' house was known for their "fantastic"
> holiday light displays.
>
> But then one day in May Clemmons was out on his driveway with some
> employees, "yelling at them, ranting, raving in their driveway,"
> Horning said.
>
> She said during that incident, car windows were broken on her car and
> on cars in Clemmons' driveway, and also on some homes in the
> neighborhood. The police came and took him away, another neighbor said.
>
> "In May when he went wacko, as I would probably describe it, and this
> all came out, it was kind of shocking, surprising," Horning said. "Up
> until then he was very normal."
>
> Horning said her's is a cul-de-sac neighborhood full of people who have
> been in their houses for decades. Clemmons is a more recent arrival who
> was friendly with neighbors, but didn't have any close friends in the
> neighborhood.
>
> She said she rarely talked to him or spent time with him other than the
> July 4 party.
>
> Another nearby neighbor who asked not to be named said he didn't know
> Clemmons well either, but that he seemed a nice enough guy.
>
> "He seemed like an OK person, but how do you know?" he said. He and
> Horning said no one in the neighborhood knew anything about Clemmons
> extensive criminal history in Washington and Arkansas.
>
> "I guess it just kind of boils down to you just don't know people," the
> neighbor said.
>
> The man whom police are seeking as a "person of interest" in the
> slaying of four police officers was released from an Arkansas prison
> nine years ago after a controversial decision by then-Gov. Mike
> Huckabee to commute his sentence.
>
>
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/412737_suspect230.html> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Just more proof that our political system is a haven for nitwits,
panderers, and
sleazebags.
Climber
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