After filing for an extension on July, 10, 2006 which was granted by the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit until August 9, 2006, Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas Reilly’s Office has filed an appeal of the Preliminary Injunction issued by US District Court Judge Dennis Saylor IV on April 7, 2006.  

In issuing his decision Judge Saylor stated that he believes the plaintiff is likely to succeed on the merits of the case. He also said that an objective and reasonable person would find the Cease and Desist letter issued by the State Police that kicked off this legal battle to have a chilling effect on the exercise of rights guaranteed under First Amendment of the United States constitution. He also found that the posting of a video showing police conducting an illegal search of a man’s home was in the public interest. The state police obviously have an interest in keeping their communications free from intercept, but this interest is outweighed in this instance by the public’s interest in free speech. 

August 17, 2006

Ben LaGuer in the Valley Advocate

Also be sure to see the related story (The Quest for Certainty) on the hazards of DNA evidence.

August 17, 2006 

Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly’s office claims a federal court judge erred by extending a restraining order that prevents state police from forcing a Leominster woman to remove a videotaped arrest of a Northboro man from her Web site.

In a brief filed last week with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, the attorney general’s office said Judge R. Dennis Saylor IV based his ruling on two important First Amendment cases that he misinterpreted.

August 18, 2006

Now we see in the infamous case of Benjamin LaGuer on a recently released video, FBI agent Richard Slowe discloses that in order to gain the victim's identification of Mr. LaGuer, misleading questions were presented to the victim. To gain a criminal indictment, the Grand Jury was told that the sexual assault took place in the defendants apartment. That fact is clearly erroneous.

August 20, 2006

Questionable intent. 

By Tim McGuigan, Conte2006.com

The recent developments in the case of JonBenet Ramsey caused many to reflect on a similar case much closer to home.  Similar, in that if seasoned resources were readily available and utilized, perhaps fewer mistakes would have occurred and finality, at least from a judicial stand point, may have already been achieved.

Unfortunately, unlike Boulder Colorado, Worcester County has denied other investigators, the likes of those we now see involved in JonBenete’s case, in.  Perhaps, we are guilty of allowing major cases to become politicized to the point that solving them is an after thought to primaries, and experience is lost to allegiance.  Many have become fearful of the ramifications for questioning a tyrannical DA and doubtful of the intentions behind many charges and convictions.

Those of us who pay attention and understand the fine line between civil liberty and the importance of law enforcement to have tools available to ensure that the least amount of force necessary is used when affecting an arrest, cringe when we witness abuse of power to the extent where “protective sweeps” are stretched to the point of illegal searches or when rulings from the bench are disregarded and Grand Jury’s are led down a trail of deceit to explain a bullet to the head.

I wish my position could be affectively argued rather then my credibility attacked regardless, have we not witnessed a verbally compliant non aggressive subject handcuffed in the threshold of his home for an alleged misdemeanor, as an unlawful search was conducted?  Have we not witnessed the findings of an Inquest ignored and a Judges ruling disregarded as a Grand Jury was used to justify actions previously ruled to have been “criminally negligent.”

It’s not necessary to understand the degree of wrong doing to the extent where evidence is withheld from a defense for 18 years to realize what is going on here or to review how the finding of a child in the woods is spun to protect those who missed her.  One need not watch the Pechonis or Slowe video to begin to get it, or have to contact the state of Montana, to find out how our old Bridgewater resident is doing. 

All one needs to do, if interested, is take a moment to research fascism, look past your political party, disregard emotional detractors and see it for what it really is.  I ask you, do you fear the ramifications of utilizing any of your inalienable rights?  If not, research what is going on in the case of Mary Jean, wonder the cost to the taxpayer and question the real intent.

The cost to society for allowing this insanity to continue is immeasurable, the time "to stand up and take notice is now."