MARLON LEGERE’S trial will wrap up any day now. But hold on – there will be no court today out of respect for the accused double cop killer’s religious beliefs.
And an irony unfolds.
“He found God in jail so, as a Muslim, he does not come to his court on his Sabbath, Friday,” said Mike Palladino, president of the Detectives Endowment Association.
“We all must have respect for anyone and all religions, but you see, Legere cannot come to court on Friday because of his religion, but he sure as hell can murder on a Friday,” said Palladino.
Palladino was referring to the fatal shootings of Detectives Pat Rafferty and Bobby Parker on Sept. 10, 2004 – a Friday, the Muslim Sabbath.
“Friday was so holy that this guy, on that Friday, his Sabbath, could murder,” Palladino said, obviously angry that this charade continues.
The city and the state are quite correct by suspending any court hearing on anyone’s Sabbath. I would go bonkers, bananas, ballistic, if there was any at all business done on Easter.
But really, is this the point?
God was forgotten when Pat Rafferty and Bobby Parker were shot dead, but God was suddenly remembered or discovered a nanosecond ago.
Of course, under our legal system even Legere deserves the best available defense.
But even a law-and-order guy like me gets weary in the varicose veins seeing taxpayers’ money spurt like a geyser.
Legere, a predicate felon, who actually was stealing his own mother’s car when he was apprehended by Bobby and Pat, is represented by Wayne Bodden as his attorney. Wayne, I gotta give you an “A” for effort.
Bodden has been trying to have Legere’s admission of guilt about blowing away two cops stricken from the record. He allegedly gave the statement while he was in pain – his body was riddled with bullets from two gutsy detectives.
“Yeah, he admits pulling the trigger but says he didn’t know they were cops, yeah,” said Detective Palladino.
The point is that Legere stole Bobby Parker’s gun, and you know how many times the crazy lefty liberals say a cop shot an unarmed man?
Well, this was an unarmed man who killed two cops.
Legere is a legless cockroach, and whenever I think of him, I almost throw up. I can only remember little Kevin Rafferty, then 9, speaking at a church on Long Island, flanked by two little sisters.
“I love my dad more than anything in the world and I want you, dad, to know that.”
Oh, well, Legere will be fat and happy for 25 or 30 years. He’ll be toasty warm in the winter courtesy of the heated jails, cool in the air-conditioned summer – all on the taxpayer’s dime.
But I hope he doesn’t do any work in prison on a Friday because that’s unholy, as it should be. And I respect any religion.
Out of respect for all religions, wouldn’t we be better suited to give Legere a juice jab cocktail?
But certainly not on a Friday.