12-03-2010, 10:53 AM
we don't have the death penalty in Mass. but on occasion there is a just outcome in our courts.
these guys have many years ahead of them with no freedom.
no good food, no holidays, no sky and stars and love of a woman, nothing. which is what they deserve.
my heart goes out to the mother of the victim. a kid who volunteered for meals on wheels. who was not a gangbanger or thug. who might have had a future.
fuck these 2 guys. may they rot in the walpole max end hellhole. just cold hard steel for comfort.
Boston Herald
Gangbanger associates of two killers lashed out in court yesterday, shouting, “It ain’t over!” after their thug pals were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of an 18-year-old honors college student.
The outburst prompted outrage and anguish from victim Cedirick Steele’s family and community leaders.
Law enforcement needs to take swift action to make it “unmistakably clear that such threats will not be tolerated under any circumstance and could be the basis for an arrest,” said the Rev. Eugene Rivers, co-founder of the Boston Ten Point Coalition, a nonprofit that promotes anti-violence.
Barring an arrest, he added, police should pay a visit to the men’s homes. “There should be a firm come-to-Jesus meeting,” he said.
Judge Linda Giles had left the bench after the sentencing and did not hear the comment, said Supreme Judicial Court spokeswoman Joan Kenney. A court officer discussed the incident with the judge, but they concluded it did not warrant an arrest, which could have been made if the officer perceived direct threats or imminent danger.
Jake Wark, spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, said the men who shouted “It ain’t over!” were “clearly affiliated with the defendants, who are members of the Mass. Ave. Hornets.” But he said the remark “does not meet the legal definition of a threat.”
“They’re murderers! They’re murderers!” moaned anguished brother Deshawn Steele as 11 court officers led Daniel “Trap” Pinckney Jr. and Antwan “Twizz” Carter out of Suffolk Superior Court.
“Leave it alone,” a sobbing woman begged Deshawn, her hand over his mouth. “You cannot let them win. We don’t have that evil in us.”
A Bunker Hill student, Cedirick Steele had just finished his Meals On Wheels shift March 14, 2007, when he was randomly gunned down.
A jury found the 22-year-old South End defendants guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday. Two previous juries deadlocked.
At the last trial, a star witness recanted after Carter allegedly plotted to kill her.
At the previous trial, the lone juror holdout was reportedly approached outside the courthouse by a man who made a gunlike motion and said, “Bang.” The juror kept deliberating after insisting the threat was unrelated to the trial.
Yesterday, Pinckney, the Hornets’ reputed leader, arrived in court with rosary beads around his neck. He and Carter sat impassively as mother Natasha Steele described in a near-whisper what it was like to have to content herself with speaking to her son’s grave.
“He wanted to leave Boston. . . . He wanted to be somebody,” she said. “All that was stolen from me.”
By Peter Gelzinis
It may have taken three trials, but in the end justice prevailed over a virulent strain of intimidation that refused to die.
Even as Antwan Carter and Daniel Pinckney Jr., a brazen pair of 22-year-old thugs, were sent off to prison for the rest of their lives yesterday, the chilling words “It ain’t over” reverberated through a packed, emotion-filled courtroom.
But evil did not triumph this time, precisely because good people had the courage to step forward.
On the afternoon of March 14, 2007, when police came upon 18-year-old Cedirick Steele lying in the gutter of a Roxbury street, his life slipping away through gunshot wounds, they had no leads.
“If it wasn’t for the good people who made those first phone calls,” Suffolk DA Dan Conley recalled yesterday afternoon after the sentence came down, “and then had the courage to come forward with a description of a black Pontiac, along with other pieces of information that proved crucial to building this case, maybe Cedirick Steele’s family would still be searching for justice.”
Conley praised what he called “the moral character and courage” of people who could not abide the obscenity of a good kid being gunned down in broad daylight while waiting for his mother to give him a ride.
That steady trickle of information led police to Latoya Thomas-Dickson. She was the ex-girlfriend of Daniel “Trap” Pinckney and was spotted in his Pontiac, on the afternoon he told his Mass. Ave Hornets gang brother “Twizz” Carter to “shoot anyone.”
The role Latoya played in this case was both pivotal and tortured. In a taped phone call from jail, Carter is heard telling one of his friends that Latoya has to be killed “or I’m history.” At the end of the second trial, this 21-year-old woman finally yielded to a stream of death threats directed at herself and her mother by abruptly recanting her testimony and committing perjury.
Like the first trial, which was hung up by a lone juror who authorities believe was threatened on his way home from court, Latoya’s anguished about-face threw the second trial into indecision.
At the third trial, Latoya explained why she chose perjury. It was prompted by a phone call from people who told her they were parked outside the safe house where she’d been moved and were ready to kill her and her mother.
Yesterday Dan Conley spoke of being mesmerized by the torrent of emotion that Natasha Steele let out upon hearing the word “guilty.”
That word, Conley suggested, was the greatest gift a group of courageous strangers could give a heartbroken mother.
photos:
victim Cedirick Steele
mindless killers
the mom
the brother of the victim sobbing in court
these guys have many years ahead of them with no freedom.
no good food, no holidays, no sky and stars and love of a woman, nothing. which is what they deserve.
my heart goes out to the mother of the victim. a kid who volunteered for meals on wheels. who was not a gangbanger or thug. who might have had a future.
fuck these 2 guys. may they rot in the walpole max end hellhole. just cold hard steel for comfort.
Boston Herald
Gangbanger associates of two killers lashed out in court yesterday, shouting, “It ain’t over!” after their thug pals were sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the murder of an 18-year-old honors college student.
The outburst prompted outrage and anguish from victim Cedirick Steele’s family and community leaders.
Law enforcement needs to take swift action to make it “unmistakably clear that such threats will not be tolerated under any circumstance and could be the basis for an arrest,” said the Rev. Eugene Rivers, co-founder of the Boston Ten Point Coalition, a nonprofit that promotes anti-violence.
Barring an arrest, he added, police should pay a visit to the men’s homes. “There should be a firm come-to-Jesus meeting,” he said.
Judge Linda Giles had left the bench after the sentencing and did not hear the comment, said Supreme Judicial Court spokeswoman Joan Kenney. A court officer discussed the incident with the judge, but they concluded it did not warrant an arrest, which could have been made if the officer perceived direct threats or imminent danger.
Jake Wark, spokesman for Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley, said the men who shouted “It ain’t over!” were “clearly affiliated with the defendants, who are members of the Mass. Ave. Hornets.” But he said the remark “does not meet the legal definition of a threat.”
“They’re murderers! They’re murderers!” moaned anguished brother Deshawn Steele as 11 court officers led Daniel “Trap” Pinckney Jr. and Antwan “Twizz” Carter out of Suffolk Superior Court.
“Leave it alone,” a sobbing woman begged Deshawn, her hand over his mouth. “You cannot let them win. We don’t have that evil in us.”
A Bunker Hill student, Cedirick Steele had just finished his Meals On Wheels shift March 14, 2007, when he was randomly gunned down.
A jury found the 22-year-old South End defendants guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday. Two previous juries deadlocked.
At the last trial, a star witness recanted after Carter allegedly plotted to kill her.
At the previous trial, the lone juror holdout was reportedly approached outside the courthouse by a man who made a gunlike motion and said, “Bang.” The juror kept deliberating after insisting the threat was unrelated to the trial.
Yesterday, Pinckney, the Hornets’ reputed leader, arrived in court with rosary beads around his neck. He and Carter sat impassively as mother Natasha Steele described in a near-whisper what it was like to have to content herself with speaking to her son’s grave.
“He wanted to leave Boston. . . . He wanted to be somebody,” she said. “All that was stolen from me.”
By Peter Gelzinis
It may have taken three trials, but in the end justice prevailed over a virulent strain of intimidation that refused to die.
Even as Antwan Carter and Daniel Pinckney Jr., a brazen pair of 22-year-old thugs, were sent off to prison for the rest of their lives yesterday, the chilling words “It ain’t over” reverberated through a packed, emotion-filled courtroom.
But evil did not triumph this time, precisely because good people had the courage to step forward.
On the afternoon of March 14, 2007, when police came upon 18-year-old Cedirick Steele lying in the gutter of a Roxbury street, his life slipping away through gunshot wounds, they had no leads.
“If it wasn’t for the good people who made those first phone calls,” Suffolk DA Dan Conley recalled yesterday afternoon after the sentence came down, “and then had the courage to come forward with a description of a black Pontiac, along with other pieces of information that proved crucial to building this case, maybe Cedirick Steele’s family would still be searching for justice.”
Conley praised what he called “the moral character and courage” of people who could not abide the obscenity of a good kid being gunned down in broad daylight while waiting for his mother to give him a ride.
That steady trickle of information led police to Latoya Thomas-Dickson. She was the ex-girlfriend of Daniel “Trap” Pinckney and was spotted in his Pontiac, on the afternoon he told his Mass. Ave Hornets gang brother “Twizz” Carter to “shoot anyone.”
The role Latoya played in this case was both pivotal and tortured. In a taped phone call from jail, Carter is heard telling one of his friends that Latoya has to be killed “or I’m history.” At the end of the second trial, this 21-year-old woman finally yielded to a stream of death threats directed at herself and her mother by abruptly recanting her testimony and committing perjury.
Like the first trial, which was hung up by a lone juror who authorities believe was threatened on his way home from court, Latoya’s anguished about-face threw the second trial into indecision.
At the third trial, Latoya explained why she chose perjury. It was prompted by a phone call from people who told her they were parked outside the safe house where she’d been moved and were ready to kill her and her mother.
Yesterday Dan Conley spoke of being mesmerized by the torrent of emotion that Natasha Steele let out upon hearing the word “guilty.”
That word, Conley suggested, was the greatest gift a group of courageous strangers could give a heartbroken mother.
photos:
victim Cedirick Steele
mindless killers
the mom
the brother of the victim sobbing in court
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