"One Last Chance" Equals Death
- Judge Thomas Fecarotta Jr. didn't know if he could believe the teen standing in his courtroom anymore.
He'd given Mathew Nellessen, who was back in court because of a probation violation, chance after chance, and the judge's frustration seemed to be bubbling to the top.
"The public is going to say what is with this crazy judge, he got a kid that he gave a break to," the Cook County Circuit Court judge said at a hearing in March, according to transcripts.
Even Nellessen's public defender and the prosecutor had agreed to four years in prison. But Fecarotta opted to give Nellessen one last chance: He credited the 19-year-old Arlington Heights man with time served, released him from custody and recommitted him to probation.
Less than a month after his release, prosecutors say Nellessen murdered his father.
Not just murdered, but slaughtered him with a baseball bat and a steak knife after making him sign over a check for $100,000 from his retirement funds. How could anyone not see this one coming? And what consequence is laid at the feet of the judge? We don't think he's civilly liable. The state's attorneys? Nope, not them either. The system is broken and no fix is forthcoming.
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posted by SCC at 12:01 AM
54 Comments:
The father's blood is on that judge's hands. time to make judges accountable for their "judgements". this judge's actions allowed this kid to commit murder.
With that, they should really remove the fucking judge. His judgement seems to be in question. They are there to see that justice is served and the public's safety not compromised because of their bullshit liberal views.
This has to end.
You're right SCC!
The system is broken on so many levels that it's not funny.
At the elite level you have the investment and mortgage banks.
They busted out the real estate market, busted out the job market, busted out the global economy and no-one.... not the president, not the congress, not any of the regulatory agencies, not any one of the politicians have the balls to bring these crooks to justice.
Some people blame the people singing the liar loans for buying things that they could not afford.
However it takes two signatures to make a contract and what's the highly educated bankers that were entrusted by their shareholders to protect their interest excuse?
No-one put a gun to their heads to make these loans.
RICO should be busting every one of them.
First they made the loans. Then they bet against them knowing the people could not pay. Now they are filing fraudulent affidavits with the courts to the tune of at least 10,000 per day.
10,000 felonies per day and they have Washington running cover for them all. Oh you don't like that fake signature. Just give it back and we'll do it over again. WTF is that?
It's NOT RIGHT! It's at every level too. You see, I see it, most all of us see it. How much longer is it going to be allowed to go on?
I'm starting to think that our leaders intentionally let things like the daily city shootings exist in order to create a distraction away from the deals and scams the politicians have going on with the corporations.
It's pretty sad when even the shitheads from englewood call you crazy. On the plus side the goofy kid got a few more shitheads a murder charge .
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The states attorneys too much power and control. Face facts if they were good lawyers they would jobs making a hell of a lot more than what they are being paid. The Cook County States Attorney's Office is filled with political hacks and bottom feeders.
Don't be fooled fellow officers. Judges are nothing but a bunch of lawyers. Most of them don't like cops and will screw them first chance they get even if they say they like the police. I know.
Even the kid's public defender agreed with the ASA to give the kid 4 years. Yet the judge put the little turd back on probation. This one isn't on the SA but clearly on the judge who is sufficiently lacking in judgment to be removed from office. Remember this judge the next time he's up for retention!
This time the judge will really get tough! Murder of his father? Prison time almost certain! 5 years at least! And then double tough we really mean it this time probation! That ought to teach the misbehaver to flaunt all the breaks he was given!
Remember all the "there is no such thing as a bad boy" crap?
Oh yes there is.
When a criminal comes before a judge charged with a crime isn't the judge bound by some type of rules as to how to act?
I mean, the law in Illinois say's that if you get caught with a gun, xxx will happen.... If you get caught with a gun a second time then xxxx will happen.
These are not guidelines that the judges face. These are laws that people voted on and wanted. Judges are what people voted on and wanted.
Why are they allowed to just put someone on probation and then probation on top of probation and then super secret probation. The law on some things are clear. They are not just for "every other judge except me." It is the law and the judges break it every day.
Wouldn't it be nice if we could just apply our work just as a "guideline?" Arrest someone, or not because we decided not to follow the law?
It has to stop but I can't see a solution..... can you?
112am- what does this have to do with the States Attorney? It seems a judge let him walk, numbnuts. -a Po.
This is the same FUCKED UP ASSHOLE JUDGE who found the Streamwooed copper guilty on a bench trial last month.
Boo fucking hoo, he's ready to give the little shithead, crack smoking turd a break, but NOT a policeman who was JUST DOING HIS JOB.
Fuck you Feccarata and the 3rd Dist SAO.
How come mortgage banks like Chase are building branches every few miles? Oh, they need to spend all that cash the G gave them......but trickle it down to the average citizen with a loan...no way
If Judge Thomas Fecarotta Jr. had any shred of honor or decency, he would have immediately resigned after learning of the result caused by his repeated foolishness and poor decisions in regards to the offender in this case.
No-one put a gun to their heads to make these loans.
4/22/2011 12:17:00 AM
Actually they did. The Federal Government, in their rush to make us all equal, made the banks start giving loans to people that were "disadvantaged". The banks took it from there and went nuts and gave them to anybody because they had the Federal Government saying it was OK. Don't look to the Feds to go after anyone.
As far as the judge goes, they are all like that. Let 'em go! It's not their fault! At least this monster killed the man that spawned him and made him in to the piece of shit he was. Bad parenting is behind most of these monsters. Not all, but most. 'The chickens come home to roost'.
Maybe they can sue the police??
This story hurts ... what a tragedy.
I assume he, too, escapes the death penalty.
if this was downstate or in rural illinois this kid would have been in the pen long ago, but not here in cook county where sometimes the real criminals wear suits
Judges and State's Attorneys should be held accountable too. They FUCK up quite a bit and nothing happens to them!!
U can't blame the Asa s. They r just as overworked as us cops. Many of them could be making much better money as defense attorneys if they didn't have souls
Put this fucking dog in a cage and leave him there. What a waste of oxygen !
If you have clout, then you become a judge. Then you do whatever you want, with no accountability!
Blame the Police!
This seems to work. Who does the media give more attention to? The Police or Obama. Now that would be a good poll.
If they made a movie about this judge, two titles come immediately to mind...
All The Kings Men
and
Above The Law
Throw in Anita Alvarez as the States Attorney and you could use...
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
Judges are scum sucking leeches who take the drop in pay to try to legitimize themselves before accepting free golf and lunches at Country Clubs and job offers from rich scum sucking leech law firms.
Feccarotta is the same judge that convicted Streamwood Cpl. James Mandarino of Aggravated Battery and Official Conduct last month (another of Anita's witch hunts.) Let's see if he gives Mandarino the same second chance when he is up for sentencing on this Monday, April 25th.
The judge should be fired!!!!If we can be fired so should they be!!!
I'm thinking the crystal ball unit is liable here cause they didn't see it coming either.
Judge Fecarotta owes his judgeship to his family's relations.
You can check with the Chicago Crime Commission for their background.
Why are you GUYS blaming the SA? They were in agreement for 4 years on this POS. It was the Judge that did this. Also I have been in front of many Judges that have backed me and others POs. Think before you talk. IKt might help your cases.
12:17am WTF
Why are the softball WORKING policemen the only ones who can be held liable in this broken judicial system? You are a softball if you are still WORKING like this job is great and we are the REAL police! Game over.
How could anyone not see this one coming? And what consequence is laid at the feet of the judge? We don't think he's civilly liable.
ARE YOU KIDDING?
We [police] are held to higher standard. We are held civilly liable. Just ask the States Attorney's office. Yet a judge[s] time after time gave/gives these poor misunderstood bust outs chance after chance and yet they [judges] are never held accountable for their actions.
Come on! Yeah the system is broke. But how can it be fixed. It's hard to tell which is worth keeping around and which should be launched. Just ask the average voter who isn't in court every other week why they voted for judge so and so.
You what would really be funny? Seeing judges and attorney's held liable for a bad decision. Talk about change? I bet the 'SYSTEM' would get a fix or two then.
Maybe then the run to be a Federal Court Judge appointment would be more palatable.
"Not just murdered, but slaughtered him with a baseball bat and a steak knife after making him sign over a check for $100,000 from his retirement funds."
Not just that, but staged a music-video, duct-tape home invasion of his own home, bringing three south/west sider boyz along with. There was just another one like this, too.
Loyalty has moved from the family to the DVD player. Watch it. Was it Hoffman or Rubin who said "Kill your parents?" Here's the fruition. Time for a lock on the bedroom door and eyes in the back of your head, I guess. They are "re-making the world."
There are shitheads of all shapes sizes and colors. This moronic-liberal judge killed this man with his policy's.
He should be be given mercy, you know, cuz he's an orphan.
Been before that judge, hates the police.
When was the last time a judge or States Atty has given an officer a break. I don't understand this 'professional courtesy' that includes them. Those days are over.
Lets not forget this judges name come election time post it everywhere and every chance you get.
5 probation violations!
Preckwinkle just laid off 40 probation officers! Ya think these folks know they have free reign? Hope it bites her in the ass!
That's the 3rd district, where they get it wrong more times than they get it right.
I'm always on guard around these little fuckers that live around me out here. They have no boundaries and wouldn't hesitate to bash your brains in if given half a chance.
Whether it's the 15 year old girl who took a hammer to that guy out in Schaumburg or this shitbird Nellessen, they're out there, and people need to be on their toes any time they encounter even the younger kids, even in the burbs.
U can't blame the Asa s. They r just as overworked as us cops. Many of them could be making much better money as defense attorneys if they didn't have souls
4/22/2011 09:19:00 AM
Most are S/As because no real law firm would hire them or they just didn't do very well in law school. But souls?.... PLEASE. They'd jump ship at a moments notice if the $$ ever came their way.
If youu really think they on your side ask yourself, When was the last time you got felony approval on a felon uuw w/o a statement?
U can't blame the Asa s. They r just as overworked as us cops. Many of them could be making much better money as defense attorneys if they didn't have souls
4/22/2011 09:19:00 AM
What a bone headed statement. I, being fiscally sound, and knowing my limits , turned down a higher loan amount on my recent home purchase, because i know what I can afford. And NO ONE put a gun to my head to borrow more. It's the consumer who needs to be more RESPONSIBLE for their own actions. Now try to stay on topic.
Old Retired Guy Here:
Just What To Stick My Two Cents Worth In, On This One.
In My Career I Went To Many Courts, With Many Cases. The One Thing That I Felt Was True To Them All Is This.
The Judge, and Many States Attorney's Will Use Any Reason They Can Come Up With To, Not Prosecute, Reduce Charges, Give Probation, or Whatever It Takes To Let The Offender Off, Lightly, As Possible.
I say place the judge, his checkbook, and the offender in a room together.....it's only fair and just :)
"Transference" on the Judges part I'm sure. Probably reminded him of some unresolved personal issue and went against all logic.
What is it with this crazy Judge???
---The Public.
If both the prosecutors and defense agreed to a prison term then the judge should have let that alone. Liberal. Ooooh poor young man couldn't help committing residential burglary.
What do you expect? It is a natural outcome for a big city where those in power rely on the poverty classes for re-election.
Toss in a bit of utopianism, liberalism, marxismim and you have your city.
W
fyi, when this judge was a brand new asa and assigned to felony review he had one of the highest rejection rates for felonies and was already a police hater!
"I'm always on guard around these little fuckers that live around me out here. They have no boundaries and wouldn't hesitate to bash your brains in if given half a chance.
"Whether it's the 15 year old girl who took a hammer to that guy out in Schaumburg or this shitbird Nellessen, they're out there, and people need to be on their toes any time they encounter even the younger kids, even in the burbs."
--4/22/2011 07:04:00 PM
Lord Of The Flies. You're right; with Dad scared to death of them and Mom on the cell phone, the Hollywood/New York "entertainment" axis is bringing these kids up by mass remote control, via Redbox and Xbox and Iphone and Ipod.
Hiawatha Park and Oriole Park and Norridge and Park Ridge and Berwyn, and the same crowd always outside what I think of as the "Stupid Store" at Harlem/Irving Plaza...it's all Myspace now. Horrible nine-year-olds bellowing like an outraged -- well, man, for God's sake.
"Natural Born Killaz," all of them. It says so on the DVD. Someday they will shave, if they don't get killed pulling a Columbine first. In the meantime, let's go play "Grand Theft Auto."
The social contract has been cancelled when the skull-shirt-and-skateboard bunch is sporting around a fast-moving freight train, grabbing at it as it blurs past, a quarter-million pounds of steel-wheeled instant death per car, and an adult -- tired by now of being cursed at -- simply turns and walks away in disgust.
Got better things to do...
(There are some awfully good kids too. Not easy to do in this environment...impossible with just virtual parents.)
I think chalkie likes this judge.
Fecaratta will never retire. He's been there forever. He is a miserable human being and is determined to make everyone else that way.
Nobody wants him around, and that's why this wound up in the papers. Think about it. How would the newspaper know to look up what happened on that case?
"and the same crowd always outside what I think of as the "Stupid Store" at Harlem/Irving Plaza..."
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As I recall, isn't that where an off duty Chicago cop was killed when he got into it with a couple of local kids?
I don't remember what the disposition of the case was, I do know the trial was held in the 3rd district courthouse.
One of the defendants attorneys was the former CPD Superintendent, Richard Brezcek.
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