{"id":4269,"date":"2010-12-29T15:02:34","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T21:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=4269"},"modified":"2010-12-29T15:02:34","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T21:02:34","slug":"massachusetts-criminal-justice-system-unclear-on-the-concept-of-a-life-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=4269","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Criminal Justice System Unclear on the Concept of a &#8220;Life Sentence&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Criminal Justice System seems to be especially unclear on the idea that, if a career felon is in jail on &#8220;three concurrent life sentences,&#8221; you <a href=\"http:\/\/stuckinmassachusetts.blogspot.com\/2010\/12\/more-ma-secondthirdfourth-chances.html\">don&#8217;t let him out on parole<\/a>. Their lack of clarity on that issue cost 35-year police veteran John &#8220;Jack&#8221; Maguire his life.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saysuncle.com\/2010\/12\/29\/unbelievable-9\/\">Say Uncle<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Massachusetts Criminal Justice System seems to be especially unclear on the idea that, if a career felon is in jail on &#8220;three concurrent life sentences,&#8221; you don&#8217;t let him out on parole. Their lack of clarity on that issue &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=4269\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":22,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[2872,887,888,890,156,206,889,891],"class_list":["post-4269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","tag-crime","tag-dominic-cinelli","tag-john-jack-maguire","tag-kevin-dingwell","tag-massachusetts","tag-murder","tag-scott-hanwright","tag-woburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4269"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4279,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4269\/revisions\/4279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}