Hook, line and sinker:
Norman Porter, admitted criminal and convicted killer, changed his name and, he says, his nature. Donovan Slack buys the whole redemption thing.
It would have rung more true (and poetic) if Porter had turned himself in to face his crimes rather than having to be tracked down to Chicago by fingerprint and dragged back to answer for his past.
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I don't buy it at all. Two murders. You can't redeem that by fleeing and living the life of a street poet. But what really gets me is the way Massachusetts treated its criminals. Porter only managed to escape because he had access to cash he earned from prison work and speeches. Speeches! And then Dukakis commuted one of those life terms. Outrageous.
I can't imagine how frustrating it must have been to be a cop in Massachusetts through the 60's, 70's and 80's. (Though it makes me feel old, I was a part-time cop here as early as 1986.)
Posted by: carpundit | March 31, 2005 7:55 AM