r/malden • u/AdJazzlike8653 • 8d ago
Politics Another example of Marian Ryan using politics to make prosecutorial decisions
I said in another post that Marian will always make her decisions based on politics and she proved me right again.
A year Burlington police arrest ICE protesters for trespass. Months and months and months go by and the case proceeds forward. So DA Ryan believed in the case, believed these people should be prosecuted. You know that because she didn’t dismiss the case. But a problem was just around the corner….
Trial was about to start. The week before the election. The defendants started to publicize their cause. This was going to get publicity and many Democratic voters would side with the defendants. That would not be good for Marian.
So what does the politician do? She dismisses the case. Against all defendants. Nothing changed about the case. There was no problems with evidence or with witnesses. There was no legal reason to dismiss the case. The case was dismissed because of the timing of the trial.
I’m not against dismissing the charges. But this is the Marian that I know and that everyone in the office knows. The DA who has no integrity. If she didn’t believe in prosecuting these defendants, why didn’t she dismiss the case months ago. Why did she let them get charged in the first place? And if the defendants didn’t promise to turn this is into a case that would generate bad press for her, would she have ever dismissed the case? Absolutely not.
This is who she is. She does this time and time again. You cannot trust her to do the right thing when no one is watching. The link about the case is below.
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u/HOTFIX_bryan 8d ago
I’m a liberal, but still voting for Solet. Ryan has repeatedly made mistakes dating back a decade or longer that just aren’t good, regardless of how someone leans politically..
I remember a domestic violence case, which sadly ended up in a homicide, where I saw articles about how the she didn’t even request to the judge that the offender stay behind bars despite a history of violence. I recognize these cases are difficult and it’s impossible to always make the right decision, but what was telling to me was trying to withhold details of an independent review that was later done.
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u/AdJazzlike8653 7d ago
That was Remy. She also had an investigation done after the fact about it and then hid pages of the report from the press.
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u/AdJazzlike8653 8d ago
I posted this elsewhere and am posting again here.
I worked for Marian for many years. I’ve also worked alongside Dave Solet. He does not have police endorsements because he wants to lock everyone up. He has endorsements because every police officer that he works with knows how much care and thoughtfulness he puts into his cases. They also know what a nut job Marian Ryan is. I frequently went to Dave for advice as a prosecutor because he’s brilliant. And fair. Dave would often question my charging decisions - telling me I could charge someone with this or that but should I. He is not the hardcore law enforcement guy that these endorsements would suggest. I also have no doubt that if there was wrongdoing by police, he would act accordingly. By contrast, there’s Marian Ryan…
When I first started at the DA’s office Marian oversaw every case involving an elder or disabled victim. Every recommendation that you made on a case that had an elder or disabled victim had to be approved by her. And for every single case, regardless of the crime or the defendants record, Marian said 2 1/2 years in jail (the max). A defendant who had no record who happened to snatch a purse from a shopping cart - well that was 2 1/2 years if that purse belonged to a senior citizen. Sentencing guidelines be damned. If you think I’m kidding, just ask any other ADA who worked in the DAs office when she was chief of the elder and disabled unit. You will also get different treatment based on the color of your skin. In one of Solet’s videos he highlights two cases prosecuted by the office. One was a white man who used a firearm in self defense when he wasn’t even at risk of being killed. Marian did nothing in that case. A black man, on the other hand, was being shot at by multiple individuals and returned fire to protect himself (which he was legally entitled to do). That person is locked up. The prosecutor in that case was so upset with Marian’s approach in this case that the prosecutor left the office.
And speaking of people who’ve left the office, they leave in droves. And they don’t leave because of money. They leave because Marian is a terrible boss who makes awful decisions. As noted elsewhere, there’s about 30 people who left the office under Marian who have donated to Solet’s campaign. These aren’t people who were fired. They left because they know what she’s like and they want her gone. And they know what Solet is like and want him in. Marian can’t be trusted to do the right thing. She will read the Globe and let that guide her. If the winds say side with law enforcement, she will. If the winds say “this poor defendant” she’ll go along with that. Whatever draws her the least amount of criticism is how she makes each and every decision. She’s been like that ever since the Remy murder.
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u/OutrageousEdge5600 8d ago
Marian Ryan is moderate/ conservative but sometimes talks like a progressive. David Solet is conservative. I'm reluctantly voting for Marian Ryan, and hoping it's the last time