NEWBURYPORT — A judge is now considering a request to triple the $820,000 awarded by a jury last November to the former chair of the Sex Offender Registry Board over her removal by former Gov. Deval Patrick in 2014.
Saundra Edwards, of Lawrence, a career prosecutor who was tapped by Patrick to head the agency, was removed from her position just three months before the end of Patrick’s term — a move Patrick admitted was linked to the agency’s handling of his brother-in-law’s first spousal rape case.
Looks like citizens are on the hook for close to a million dollars. Seems the Governor didn’t like the outcome of his brother in law so he fired her. She happen to oversee the sex offender registry board.
A little research on articles needs to be done before publishing. I live just south of Oregon and there were never a Deval Patrick as governor of Oregon.
Gee golly, lawyers suing. Triple damages sought. Just gorging at the trough of taxpayer dollars. 😏
Will anything good or useful come of this? No, of course not. 😖
They should all win the right (read: requirement) to be listed on a public registry for bilking taxpayers. 😡
Leave it to lawyers to come up with a tripled tort (3x) scheme to act “as a deterrent ” to undesirable behavior. This case is rife with nepotism, but ripe fruit as per how the politically connected and powerful can avoid being on the registry while others may not.
Just how easily is the special tribunal influenced? Very easily. My guess is they where sick of special requests being made of them, and this one was verifiable. 70 employees, likely from affluent families, connected to other affluent families, all exacting their justice through these corrupt MA courts. People talk, and news travels, but the truth rarely remains.