PETER LUCAS: Liberal justice is no justice for murdered doctors … – Lowell Sun

Attorney General Maura Healey should consider taking over the prosecution of Bampumim Teixeira, the alleged cutthroat killer of those two unfortunate South Boston doctors.

Otherwise he will be prosecuted by the same people who are responsible for allowing the convicted bank robber to walk the streets of Boston when he should have been deported.

That would be Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, who, in a plea-bargain deal, enabled Teixeira to resume his life on the streets and wreak havoc on the lives of two innocent people.

That deal was approved by Boston Municipal Court Judge Lisa Anne Grant, a soft-hearted liberal appointed by former Gov. Deval Patrick.

Grant reduced two unarmed bank robbery charges to larceny. She then sentenced Teixeira to nine months in jail, considering time served. The sentence was actually 364 days, one day short of one year, which could have triggered action to deport Teixeira.

One could argue that your average two-time American bank robber would have been sentenced to nine years, not nine months. It is another example of liberals bending the judicial system to bail out criminal immigrants, legal or otherwise. It's called immigrant privilege.

Teixeira was in the country since 2010 as a green-card holder which allowed him to live and work in the United States. There is no sign that he did much work, outside of an occasional security guard job, even at the secure 148-unit Macallen Building in South Boston.

That is where victims Richard Field, 49, and Lina Bolanos, 38, both doctors who were soon to be married, lived in a $1.9 million penthouse condo on the top floor of the building.

They were found May 5 with their hands tied and their throats slit. A message in their blood was scrawled on the wall. When the Boston cops arrived they confronted Teixeira, who they thought was armed, and shot and wounded him. A backpack with Bolanos' jewelry was found. Teixeira, who is thought to have had a master key to the condo, was charged with their murders. He was arraigned from his hospital bed.

The bottom line is that had Teixeira been deported to Guinea-Bassau, where he was born, or to Cape Verde, where he lived, two vibrant and well-loved people, Richard Field and Lina Bolanos, would be alive today.

Instead, in a deeply wrenching ceremony at Gate of Heaven Church in South Boston, friends carried out the couple's cremated remains in a pair of wooden boxes amid a crowd of sobbing and sorrowing relatives and friends.

It was a crime that did not have to happen, but did happen because of Conley and Grant.

And where do the relatives and friends of the two victims go for solace, recourse or accountability for the deaths of their loved ones? The answer is nowhere. There is no recourse.

Sure, the families can sue the building owners or the security company that employed Teixeira. And sure, Teixeira this time will get what is coming to him, although I would not count on it. But nothing will bring back Field and Bolani.

What about the judicial system? There, nobody is held accountable or responsible for the actions that protected Teixeira from deportation.

Liberals would have you believe that it was not their fault but the fault of the "system."

The Boston Globe even ran an editorial blaming the "system" for the murders. The headline read, "The failed system that cost the two doctors their lives," thus absolving Judge Grant and Conley of any responsibility for setting Teixeira free.

It was not the fault of the system. The system is fine. It was the fault of people in the system who manipulated the law to help Teixeira.

There is more to this story, but no one is talking.

A generation ago when police reporters worked out of the smoke-filled press room at Boston Police headquarters, questions surrounding this case would have been answered. But police reporters have gone the way of cigar smoke.

There is a public-service opening for Healey to take over the case and provide some accountability. It would restore people's dwindling confidence in the judicial system.

She has the legal authority to intervene, but she won't. It would upset the Globe and her liberal base. Healey may bill herself as the state's "chief law officer," or the state's "chief law enforcement officer," but you will never catch her at a crime scene.

Judge Grant, meanwhile, shrugs and says, "Next case."

luke1825@aol.com

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