It’s all yesterday’s news. Published reports indicate that on November 15th, an individual named Tyquan Pooler, was murdered, in the vicinity of Fremont Street, in Mattapan. Mr. Pooler “of Boston,” was 45 years old at the time he was stabbed to death. A 29-year-old “Mattapan man” named Javonte Robinson is reported to have been charged.
Reports further indicate that Robinson had criminal charges filed against him dropped, less than one month before his alleged involvement in the November murder. Robinson’s charges, possession of a dangerous weapon, a knife, and possession of a Class A drug, were reported to have been dropped under the “Lavallee protocol.” See Lavallee v. Justices in the Hampden Superior Court, 442 Mass. 228, 812 N.E.2d 895 (2004).
In Massachusetts, Robinson couldn’t be held in jail because he didn’t have a lawyer. In Massachusetts, North Andover Police Officer Kelsey Fitzsimmons could be held in jail because she did have a lawyer.
Interestingly, on July 19, 2018, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts, sent out a press release about a “Heath Street gang member” who was sentenced that day in federal court in Boston for distributing drugs in and around the Mildred C. Hailey Apartments in Jamaica Plain. An individual also named “Javonte Robinson,” a/k/a “Biggie,” and “Big Dog,” then 21 years of age, was reported to have been sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge William G. Young to one year and one day in prison and six years of supervised release. In May 2018, the “Javonte Robinson” named in that situation pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute cocaine base and to distributing cocaine base within 1,000 feet of a public housing facility.
It was further reported that following a two-year investigation, that the “Robinson” identified in that press release and eight co-defendants had been charged in January 2018 in connection with illegal drug distribution and firearm possession within and near the Mildred C. Hailey Apartments, formerly known as the Bromley Heath Housing Development.
Massachusetts, the richest state in New England, pays its Bar Advocates less than half the hourly rate that Maine, the poorest state in New England, pays its Bar Advocates. Massachusetts pays its Bar Advocates $65.00 per hour, while Maine pays its Bar Advocates $150.00 per hour.
Politically unconnected Massachusetts Bar Advocates, who have provably saved Massachusetts tax-payers millions and millions of dollars over the past forty years, are presently requesting to be paid 30% less than the “Maine rate,” or $100.00 per hour, but no one appears grateful for this modest proposal. In fact, the Commonwealth’s “power elite” is having none of it. A five dollar an hour increase has been counter offered.
Rather than ending the Bar Advocate crisis last summer, and attempting to prevent an all too predictable, stabbing death in Mattapan, Governor Maura Healey “gave” the highest paid legislature in New England, a twenty per cent pay increase. Legislative “leaders,” like Senate President Karen Spilka and Speaker of the House Ron Marainno are now being paid more than $200,000 per year with tax-payer funds. Many believe that these individuals couldn’t earn this money in the private sector if their very lives depended on it.
Other ridiculous expenditures carried on the backs of Massachusetts taxpayers, some of whom work very hard to earn a living, are the millions of dollars expended for “special prosecutors,” and “clown school experts,” engaged in “special prosecutions” of politically unconnected “non-entities,” like Karen Read.
Massachusetts reportedly pays more to incarcerate prisoners than any other state in the union, approximately $310,000, per prisoner, per year. Rather than ordering a nurse to travel to North Andover Police Officer Kelsey Fitzsimmons’ mother’s house to conduct random tests of Officer Fitzsimmons’ urine, at an estimated cost to the Commonwealth’s tax payers of no more than $15,000, the people of Massachusetts have been required to pay about $200,000 to expose the seriously wounded police officer to disease and physical danger in jail, where she sometimes sat in solitary confinement. It is important to note that Officer Fitzsimmons had not violated the terms of her release. Her attorney had merely dared to request that the terms of her release be modified, that his client who had been shot in the chest, not be required to blow into a SCRAM contraption, and that some other methodology be employed to test her for alcohol use. Without any reason on earth for any reasonable attorney to fear that merely making such a polite request would threaten his client’s release, the motion judge, without giving reasonable notice and a fair opportunity to be heard, abruptly revoked the seriously wounded police officer’s bail, and threw her in jail, while all the world was watching.
One notes also, that when Officer Fitzsimmons was released on December 23rd, just how carefully her family’s personal backgrounds were CORI checked. We are led to believe that Massachusetts taxpayers have been required to spend money so that court personnel could run a CORI check on the officer’s middle-aged mother, another political non-entity, one assumes. One notes the strict adherence to the “SCRAM or be damned” protocol ordered by the court, when, as stated, a nurse at her mother’s home would have more than satisfied the judge’s requirement that the community be protected from the danger presented by a seriously wounded, female police officer. One notes the GPS monitor shackled to the ankle presumably.
Certainly, no reasonable person minds when a court orders people before it to be required to receive psychiatric counseling and treatment, but in this instance, Officer Fitzsimmons, herself, appears to have sought psychiatric counseling, on her own behalf, a sign of mental health, in its own right. It should also be noted that Officer Fitzsimmons, in the not so distant past, is reported to have graduated from college with honors, a characterological indication of hard work and personal discipline. If a scintilla of compassion had been expressed in the court’s tone or words, as so often occurs in other Massachusetts courtrooms, then, perhaps, the public outrage, in this case, would become somewhat abated, but, so far, not a glimmer of empathy or compassion can be perceived.
The Commonwealth has its priorities. The prosecution of another “outsider,” political non-entity, Aiden Kearney, a/k/a “Turtle Boy,” is predicted to end in inglorious defeat, but, in the meantime, it richly rewards former Massachusetts Judge Michael Cosgrove, at the expense of the Massachusetts “working man” and “working woman.”
Javonte Robinson appears to be the same age as “Big Dog,” considered above. When Mr. Robinson was released from custody, a few months ago, did the court personnel check where he would be living? Were court personnel required to examine the criminal background records of Mr. Robinson’s associates or of his family? Did anyone check Defendant Robinson’s drug or alcohol use? One assumes that no one checked, but if court personnel did check, and Mr. Robinson had been found to be a user, would he have been required to SCRAM or be damned? Was Mr. Robinson required to seek psychiatric counseling, if there were a free clinic available to him? Was Mr. Robinson required to be shackled to a GPS monitor, the way wounded Officer Fitzsimmons is? Were the court’s admonitions concerning the terms of Mr. Robinson’s release as stern as those heard in Essex County, or did Defendant Robinson step out of court as free as a bird? Tyquan Pooler’s family and the people of Massachusetts might want to know.
