It was September 28 of 1999. Chauntae Jones had hopes of reuniting with the young man who had impregnated her. She was only 14 years old and having the father of her child be involved in the process was important to her. She was told to meet with him at the Boston State Hospital alone late that afternoon. According to prosecutors, what she didn't know is that the young man Kyle Bryant (eighteen at the time) was planning her murder. Bryant wanted to kill her and stop the possibility of a statutory rape investigation.

Bryant called her over to a tree grove in an area of the grounds of the closed mental hospital. Chauntae would have no way of knowing that he wasn't planning on comforting her and wasn't there to assure her that he was going to be there forever. His friend Lord Hampton, a latch key kid from the streets, was also leading her into the woods with Bryant.

Bryant told police that he watched as Hampton first tried to rape her,  stabbed her over and over after smashing her head with a large rock. A shallow grave was already dug before she got there. Police believe that Bryant was telling the truth when he described to them how Hampton kicked her into the ditch and then jumped on her back, trying to break it "like she was a log". Both threw dirt over her while she cried, helplessly immobile and whispered her love for Bryant.

Chauntae Davis was then buried alive with her unborn child. Two lives cut short, denied existence by two worthless beasts bound to do no good in this world.

An intense interrogation by Boston police pressured Bryant to lead them to her grave which he did on November 2nd, just over four weeks later. There they found a shovel which belonged to Bryant's home and a pillow case matching linens from his home too.
 
Lord Hampton was convicted of the gruesome murder and insists today that it was Bryant and not he who killed her. Hampton admits to throwing dirt on her while she gasped for air but that it was Bryant who dug her grave with a shovel prior to her arrival to the grounds. Hampton said he stood by and watched as Bryant sexually assaulted her, stabbed her, bludgeoned her with a rock, stomped on her yelling "Hurry up and die bitch" and threw her in the grave.

As an investigator it seems clear that the malice involved required a strong motivation. Even the eight and a half month old baby in the womb was stabbed in the back according to the autopsy. The level of rage as evidenced by the remains of Jones and her unborn would suggest to me that Bryant was at least involved with the killing. By the way, the autopsy also showed dirt in her voice box, proving that she was buried alive and suffocated before succumbing to her wounds and injuries. It also seems to this private investigator that the failure to use DNA to show Bryant was the father of the child is an outrage. He could have been convicted of statutory rape at least if the test positively identified him as the father of the unborn baby he murdered.
 
On April of 2004, the unimaginable happened again. Kyle Bryant was acquitted by a grand jury. Many of the jurists stated that they had no choice to acquit based on the instructions of Judge Patrick F. Brady.  Bryant's attorney suggested that Bryant would now have to pick up the pieces of his life and start again. His parents have supposedly fled from Boston and surely Bryant would end up in the nearby urban blight outside of Boston...that part is coming.

Before we update Bryant's "reformed" life, let's look at the judge who presided over his trial. Judge Brady is a Governor Michael Dukakis appointed judge who served on the board of directors of Greater Boston Legal Services, a progressive legal entity best known today for defending  illegal immigrants, felons and others. How could this trial have ended any differently?

Fast forward to 2010:

Brockton, Massachusetts January 5, 2010. Kyle Bryant is alleged to have chased an unarmed man named Darnell Harrison into a bar on Ames Street in Brockton where he shot and killed him and also struck a 23 year old second victim in the process. Witnesses at "The Lit" were lunging for cover and diving to the floor.

At some point we have to link the liberal judges to the liberal politicians. Sure there are some lousy justices appointed by conservatives and moderate pols but the average appointments will show a disparity in letting felons out of jail to commit more violence in society. If we want safer streets then we must now weigh in how an elected official will consider the appointments in our courts.

I will remind you that our esteemed governor Deval Patrick once worked as a lawyer who fought to make prison conditions improve for the inmates. Even items such as "better inflated basketballs" were a concern of Patrick's. Can we really chance another four years of these kinds of appointments? Michael Dukakis and Deval Patrick are certainly cut from the same cloth. Be afraid...or vote for change.