Prison for the Clueless
This New York taxpayer will be supporting one more clueless nitwit for at least 19 more years. And that suits me just fine!
Edwin Frazier just got a 19-to-life sentence for his role in a home invasion that turned fatal.
Frazier, Ernest Johnson, Jovan Phillips and mastermind Eric Calace (spoiled rich kid whose father and grandfather are noted real estate developers) went to burglarize the home of Dane Aulak, Calace's cannabis connection. Aulak was home at the time, and accordingly, a struggle ensued with him. Aulak was fatally shot by Johnson and/or Phillips, but, in the struggle, managed to flip a gun away from Johnson or Phillips. Aulak's brother Jesse caught the gun and, in self defense, fatally shot Johnson and Phillips.
Here is the Suffolk County DA's press release, with all its updates at the bottom.
Calace, who was waiting in the car when it all happened, cut a plea deal for 17 years in exchange for his cooperation with the Suffolk County. [Eric the Spoiled Rich Kid Calace actually has something resembling a chance. His sentence ends in 2024, but he might get out in 2021 if he behaves well. If Dear Old Dad's real estate empire survives, then Eric might actually have a job to go to when he gets out. But I suspect that Calace, Sr. did his share to facilitate Junior's descent into hell long before he sprung for Junior's defense attorney.].
Frazier pleaded guilty to Murder II and was formally sentenced to a 19-years-to-life term.
So now, Frazier is whining to the Judge "How come I have to take their fall? … Why couldn't I plead to a burglary charge?"
To which I say, "Boo Freakin' Hoo," to borrow a quote my 2nd favorite Filipina, Michelle Malkin (my No. 1 favorite Filipina, now retired and doting on her grandchildren, is a Jewish girl from Manila who lost a brother during the Japanese occupation).
The exchange at the sentencing hearing between Judge Hudson and Frazier's mother is very telling:
"You didn't fire the weapon, but you held it," Hudson told Frazier. "Ready at your leader's command to kill."
"But he didn't!" the suspect's mother, Pamela Mays-Frazier, 40, shouted at the judge.
The way I read this, Frazier received, during his formative years, precious little guidance on how to be responsible for his own actions. And very few clues in matters of other common everyday wisdom. He certainly didn't get much from Mom.
Even Frazier's lawyer conceded, afterwards, that if Frazier didn't take the plea deal for Murder II, he likely would have gotten slapped with the maximum.
Frazier is lucky. His two accomplices got what amounts to the back door death penalty -- they were "victims" of justifiable homicide. It's the best we can do for capital punishment in New York, now that the sob sisters on the Court of Appeals have taken that prerogative away from the prosecution.
Frazier now has 19 years to get a clue or two before his first parole hearing. But I wouldn't bet that it will happen.
So now, Frazier is whining to the Judge "How come I have to take their fall? … Why couldn't I plead to a burglary charge?"
To which I say, "Boo Freakin' Hoo," to borrow a quote my 2nd favorite Filipina, Michelle Malkin (my No. 1 favorite Filipina, now retired and doting on her grandchildren, is a Jewish girl from Manila who lost a brother during the Japanese occupation).
The exchange at the sentencing hearing between Judge Hudson and Frazier's mother is very telling:
"You didn't fire the weapon, but you held it," Hudson told Frazier. "Ready at your leader's command to kill."
"But he didn't!" the suspect's mother, Pamela Mays-Frazier, 40, shouted at the judge.
The way I read this, Frazier received, during his formative years, precious little guidance on how to be responsible for his own actions. And very few clues in matters of other common everyday wisdom. He certainly didn't get much from Mom.
Even Frazier's lawyer conceded, afterwards, that if Frazier didn't take the plea deal for Murder II, he likely would have gotten slapped with the maximum.
Frazier is lucky. His two accomplices got what amounts to the back door death penalty -- they were "victims" of justifiable homicide. It's the best we can do for capital punishment in New York, now that the sob sisters on the Court of Appeals have taken that prerogative away from the prosecution.
Frazier now has 19 years to get a clue or two before his first parole hearing. But I wouldn't bet that it will happen.
Meanwhile, we taxpayers will be footing the bill for Frazier's room and board. But that's a cheap and economical alternative to having Frazier out walking on the streets.
Labels: death penalty, Edwin Frazier, marijuana, Parenting
posted by Expatriate Owl @ 4:20 AM
2 Comments:
At 27 July, 2011 01:15,
Anonymous said…
And what kills me most is that he will be aalll set when he gets out of prison but his fiance and his 2 children are struggling to get by..and its always going to be hard for her she lost her best friend her kids lost their father! Raising 2 kids alone is not easy eric devasted their lives and yet his life willl be all peachy when all is said and done. I hope he doesn't get parol and i know everyone close to dane will be there the day of his parol hearing including his 2 children who will be grown by then. They have to live forever without their father, why should calace live at all?
At 27 July, 2011 03:37,
Expatriate Owl said…
If this were an ideal world, Calace would already have departed from it. But the world is not ideal. Calace's cooperation was needed to expeditiously facilitate the legal processes against his co-defendants.
Not an ideal world, to be sure. And it certainly is not pure justice, certainly not to the widow or the orphans of the victim.
But the alternative -- unbridled police and prosecutor rampancy -- is far, far worse.
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