Massachusetts governor abandons pardons in sex abuse case
BOSTON (AP) -- Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has withdrawn his request seeking pardons for two individuals at the center of one the nation's most
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Pardon hearing set for Massachusetts siblings convicted in Fells Acres child abuse case
Gerald "Tooky" Amirault, his sister, Cheryl Lefave-Amirault, and their late mother, Violet, were convicted in 1986 and 1987 of abusing young children at their Fells Acres Day Care in Malden.
Source: wcvb.com
Why Gov. Baker's Fells Acres pardon push is so controversial
The decades-old case still evokes intense responses.
Source: wgbh.org
Council to hear Amirault, Shabazz cases Dec. 13 | Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly
The Governor's Council will solicit public testimony this month on Gov. Charlie Baker's requests to make a murderer convicted 50 years ago eligible for parole and to pardon defendants who were convicted in the 1980s Fells Acres abuse case. Councilor Christopher A. Iannella Jr. of Boston will chair a State House hearing on Dec. 13
Source: masslawyersweekly.com
Baker seeks commutation stemming from Dorchester murders in 1972
Gov. Baker last on Friday continued his lame-duck streak of recommending pardons and commutations, proposing that a convicted murderer once sentenced to death after killing two people in Dorchester be made eligible for parole. Baker commuted the first-degree murder sentence of Ramadan Shabazz to second-degree murder, which, his office said, would make the 72-year-old once
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