If anybody deserves the Jack Jones remedy it’s Dean Tran.
Remember him? He is the previous Fitchburg Republican state senator who was indicted by then-Attorney General Maura Healey, now governor, on a questionable gun cost. Tran has pleaded not responsible.
Jones, after all, is the 25-year-old, $4.4 million New England Patriot cornerback who walked final week after Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden dropped all severe gun fees in opposition to him,
In Tran’s case, Healey, working for governor in 2022, drudged up a three-and-a-half-year-old disputed gun theft case in opposition to him.
Tran on the time was working in opposition to Democrat U.S. Rep Lori Trahan of Westford, a Healey supporter, within the Lowell centered third Congressional District.
The indictment, the one such indictment Healey sought within the eight years she was legal professional basic, got here after Trahan endorsed Healey within the Democrat gubernatorial major for governor.
Trahan not solely twice contributed $1,000 to Healey however raised a further $30,000 to $50,000 for Healey’s gubernatorial marketing campaign.
Healey, in the course of the congressional marketing campaign charged Dean Tran, a Vietnamese American, with the alleged theft of a firearm from an aged constituent who beforehand requested for his assist in disposing of her late husband’s catch of weapons. Tran denied the cost and returned the weapon.
The Fitchburg Police Department investigated and located no wrongdoing and the Worcester District Attorney Office, which had jurisdiction, by no means even took the case up.
Someone purchased it to Healey’s consideration three years later and Healey, serving to out her pal Trahan, swooped in and destroyed what probability, little that it was, of Tran defeating Trahan within the 2022 election.
What Healey did again then smelled, and it nonetheless smells right this moment
Yet regardless of the indictment, Republican Tran, a Donald Trump supporter, was in a position to collect 36.4% of the vote (88,585) to 63.5% (154,492) for incumbent Democrat Trahan within the closely Democrat district.
Trahan stated she knew nothing concerning the indictment or the way it happened.
Rather than drop the flimsy case — and halt the wreckage of Tran’s life — attorneys from Attorney General Andrea Campbell’s workplace sought to ship Tran, a Vietnamese American, to jail for a 12 months on a rejected plea deal throughout a court docket look final week in Worcester Superior Court. Campbell is Haley’s handpicked successor.
A extra becoming motion would have been for Campbell to research what prompted Healey to resurrect a useless authorized case to go after Tran within the first place.
But don’t maintain your breath. Dean is a Trump Republican and justice, resembling it’s, is managed by Democrats. Democrats don’t examine Democrats.
Besides, Democrats not solely need to defeat Republicans, like Trump and Trump supporter Dean Tran, they need to destroy them.
It is simply too dangerous Tran doesn’t play for the Patriots and have all of the connections working for him that Jones had. If he did, Healey would by no means have indicted him within the first place.
Jones was arrested in June at Logan Airport after safety found two loaded semi-automatic firearms in his carry-on bag, a Glock 43X and a Glock 19 together with 54 rounds of ammunition,
It is just not as if Jones deliberate to make use of one or one other of the Glock’s on an opposing arise quarterback or a speedy large receiver, he simply didn’t know they have been in his bag, or so he stated. Really?
What’s the massive deal? Everybody walks round packing two weapons, don’t they? Especially within the NFL.
As far-fetched because it appeared, Hayden and the state purchased into the, “I did not know I was carrying two loaded guns ready to board an airplane” protection and Jones walked. He didn’t even need to say {that a} stranger handed him the bag.
Assistant District Attorney John Blazos, who “prosecuted” the case, wrote, “it cannot be proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Mr. Jones had knowledge that he possessed the firearms in his bag at the time of the incident.”
It additionally can’t be confirmed past an affordable doubt that justice is truthful and balanced in Massachusetts. Like Jones, it’s within the bag.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”