Massachusetts Judge Frees Murderer Because He is Too Stupid to Stand Trial

  Eric Falardeau has been in a Massachusetts jail awaiting trial for murder charges. He beat a man to death outside a bar. A total stranger and family man whose only crime was wanting to have a beer with his brother after work.

  Falardeau has admitted to beating the man, he claims that he didn’t mean to kill him. There is no doubt that Faladeau is the man who killed William Beal.

  Last week a Massachusetts judge released Falareau, he will never face charges for the murder he committed. Why? Because he was deemed to be too stupid to stand trial. He doesn’t understand the charges being brought against him.

he has an IQ that borders on mental retardation, and said he would never be able to understand court proceedings and assist in his own defense, according to court records.

  He wasn’t sent to an institution, there was no program for people who are just stupid so today he is a free man. No punishment for the crime. Here is reaction from the family:

He got away with it, and it’s like telling people out there they can get away with anything, all you have to say is you’re dumb and stupid,” said Beal’s sister, Catherine Ambrose of Lawrence. “It’s ridiculous and it’s not right … Since when was being stupid a defense?”

  This murder was not Falardeau first brush with the law, the man has a violent past.

Falardeau has a long history of violent outbursts, and a record of assault and battery charges. He allegedly assaulted a jail guard in 2004, and punched and kicked police and EMTs while they were at his house on a medical call in 2006. Those charges were also dropped this week.

Falardeau has admitted to anger issues and to an attachment to alcohol.

  This man has a violent history and he was allowed to walk out of jail a free man. His history tells us that he will have a run in with the law again, what will it take to keep this man behind jail for good?

  You would think that Massachusetts would have learned a lesson from the last murderer that was released from prison there. Daniel Tavarez Jr, a convicted murderer was released from prison, he went to Washington and murdered a newlywed couple who had their whole new lives ahead of them.

  The father of the new bride said “It’s because of stupidity in Massachusetts that my daughter is dead,” and last week it was because of a murderer’s stupidity that he will not face trial.

  There is something horrible wrong with the justice system when convicted and admitted murderers either are released from jail or do not even have to face charges. Somehow the system forgets the victims and paints the perpetrators as the victims.

  Justice was not served to the family of William Beal when a judge decided that Falardeau was too stupid to stand trial. He is free to kill again. I feel for the family of William Beal, how must they feel knowing the murderer of their loved one will not face any punishment for his crime? How secure do the feel when they go to bed at night?

  And how can the judge, Howard Whitehead, sleep at night? If Falardeau kills again the blood is on Judge  Howard Whitehead’s hands.