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Bishes, other victims’ families turn to Healey
By Dave Wedge
Boston Herald Chief Enterprise Reporter
Wednesday, October 11, 2006 -
The families of high-profile murder victims Molly Bish and Joanne and Alyssa Presti threw their support behind Lt. Gov. Kerry Healey yesterday as new questions over Deval Patrick’s record on crime emerge.
Laurie Myers, spokeswoman for the victims’ rights group VOICES, said she was “disgusted” to learn of Patrick’s controversial fight for inmates’ rights while a top Justice Department lawyer.
“It makes me sick,” Myers said. “If he wants to go represent criminals, that’s up to him, but I don’t want to see a defense attorney as our next governor.”
Patrick has been besieged by criticism for his support of convicted rapist Ben LaGuer and saving a Florida cop killer from death row.
“We are trying to keep criminals in prison longer for these crimes and Deval Patrick has spent most of his career working to get them released early,” said Annette Presti, whose daughter and granddaughter were murdered by a Level 3 sex offender in 2004.
Added Molly Bish’s mother, Magi: “I don’t want another family to have to endure what we’ve had to go through. The lieutenant governor has been a strong and dependable advocate for victims and . . . willing to be tough on violent and sexual criminals.”
Patrick spokesman Doug Rubin said the campaign “understands and respects” the views of the crime victims, but added that “Deval Patrick has worked his entire career to ensure justice in the court system. A lot of his work in the civil rights division and as a private attorney has been on behalf of victims.”
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