Another Illegal Alien Uber Rapist: Ghanian national Frederick Amfo posted bail and fled the country last weekend after a Friday arraignment on a rape charge stemming from an April 6 assault. Antonio Planas, Marie Szaniszlo of the Boston Herald report that Amfo was driving for Uber when he picked up Emily Murray early that morning, took her to a deserted street and raped her. After the arraignment, the wonderfully accommodating District Court allowed him to post bail, and told him to surrender his passport within 24 hours, leave the victim alone, and stop driving for Uber. Remarkably, Amfo failed to surrender his passport and instead boarded a plane for Ghana. The Herald story failed to mention that Amfo was illegally in the sanctuary state of Massachusetts and that according to ICE a federal immigration detainer should have been placed on him.
Lucia Sauarez Sang of Fox News reports that Weymouth police claimed it forwarded the detainer to Quincy District
Court but "The court chose not to forward the detainer to Norfolk
County, allowing for his subsequent release on bail from custody," an ICE spokesman said in a statement. "This case highlights the potential dangers
of policies that prohibit cooperation with ICE."
Court Rejects Challenge to Ohio Death Penalty: The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the state's death penalty today, rejecting a challenge by a convicted rapist/murderer. Andrew Welsh-Huggins of the Associated Press reports that death row inmate Maurice Mason claimed that because a judge makes the final decision to impose a death sentence, Ohio's law is similar to the Florida law overturned the the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016. The court disagreed, noting that unlike Florida's former process, Ohio juries must specifically find any aggravating circumstances that qualify the murderer for a death sentence. The court also noted that Ohio juries must be unanimous in its recommendation for a death sentence. Mason was convicted and sentenced to death for the February 8, 1993, rape and murder of Robin McDuffie, the wife of a friend. After the rape he beat the woman to death with a board with nails protruding from it. Substantial evidence including a DNA match and several witnesses convinced the jury of Mason's guilt.
Alien Gang Members Protected by CA Law: Dozens of illegal aliens who are members of criminal gangs were protected from deportation last year by sanctuary laws which prohibit state law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. Not surprisingly, two thirds of the gang members released were in California. Adam Shaw of Fox News reports that among the criminals released were several members of the violent MS-13 gang which is responsible for numerous machete and baseball-bat murders of mostly young immigrants. In remarks to the National Press club earlier this week California Governor Jerry Brown said that the attention payed to enforcing immigration law was just an "an inflammatory football that very low-life politicians like to exploit. And I think it's shocking, it's despicable and it's harmful to California, mostly to the people."
Court Rejects Challenge to Ohio Death Penalty: The Ohio Supreme Court unanimously upheld the constitutionality of the state's death penalty today, rejecting a challenge by a convicted rapist/murderer. Andrew Welsh-Huggins of the Associated Press reports that death row inmate Maurice Mason claimed that because a judge makes the final decision to impose a death sentence, Ohio's law is similar to the Florida law overturned the the U.S. Supreme Court in 2016. The court disagreed, noting that unlike Florida's former process, Ohio juries must specifically find any aggravating circumstances that qualify the murderer for a death sentence. The court also noted that Ohio juries must be unanimous in its recommendation for a death sentence. Mason was convicted and sentenced to death for the February 8, 1993, rape and murder of Robin McDuffie, the wife of a friend. After the rape he beat the woman to death with a board with nails protruding from it. Substantial evidence including a DNA match and several witnesses convinced the jury of Mason's guilt.
Alien Gang Members Protected by CA Law: Dozens of illegal aliens who are members of criminal gangs were protected from deportation last year by sanctuary laws which prohibit state law enforcement from cooperating with federal immigration authorities. Not surprisingly, two thirds of the gang members released were in California. Adam Shaw of Fox News reports that among the criminals released were several members of the violent MS-13 gang which is responsible for numerous machete and baseball-bat murders of mostly young immigrants. In remarks to the National Press club earlier this week California Governor Jerry Brown said that the attention payed to enforcing immigration law was just an "an inflammatory football that very low-life politicians like to exploit. And I think it's shocking, it's despicable and it's harmful to California, mostly to the people."
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