WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE AMERICAN CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM? [+] serious ballot by Barbara_Baby_Cakes ACTIVE Sat Nov 24, 07 - Mon Feb 01, 10 Twenty months after he put a career prosecutor on the Massachusetts Superior Court bench, confident in her law-and-order credentials, Mitt Romney called yesterday for the judge to resign because she released without bail a convicted killer who went on to allegedly kill again. Eric Fehrnstrom, a Romney spokesman, said yesterday that Judge Kathe M. Tuttman should never have freed Daniel T. Tavares Jr. on personal recognizance in July, after he was charged with assaulting two prison guards. Tavares, 41, was near the end of a 16-year sentence for stabbing his mother to death in 1991 and had threatened in a letter intercepted by prison officials in February 2006 to kill Romney and other state officials, Fehrnstrom said. On Monday, after five months in hiding, Tavares was arrested for allegedly shooting to death Brian Mauck, 30, and Beverly Mauck, 28, newlyweds who lived near him in a rural area south of Tacoma, police said. Romney is now seeking the Republican presidential nomination, touting his record as governor and some of his female supporters have highlighted his record of appointing women to the judiciary. Tuttman's entire experience as a prosecutor suggested that she would be a law-and-order judge, Otherwise, she never would have been appointed. Tavares was three days away from his release date on his sentence for killing his mother when he appeared before Tuttman on June 11, charged with assaulting correction officers, said his lawyer, Eugene Lumelsky of Lawrence. Prosecutors asked Tuttman to hold the convict on $50,000 bail for each of the two charges, and Lumelsky requested about $5,000 bail, he said. In July, Tuttman released Tavares on his own personal recognizance. Tavares fled and turned up next in Washington, where he lived with a woman he had met online while behind bars. The Massachusetts State Police suspected that Tavares was in Washington state and warned Romney to be on the lookout for Tavares when he campaigned in Seattle on Monday, Fehrnstrom said. About the same time, Tavares was arrested on charges of killing the Maucks. "Daniel Tavares is a monster and he never should have been let out of jail," Fehrnstrom said. "The whole case leads to some very troubling questions about a system that would let a man with his violent record back into society." Yes/No, is this a case of a Judge that used poor judgment or is this a case of a Killer who served his time as ordered and legally released? Definitely a case where a Judge used poor Judgment... He served his time, he was released legally... Ballot #119453 : SEE RESULTS Comment: show your vote with comment?

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