Jared Remy pleads guilty to murder of Jennifer Martel

[Recursion]

Source: Boston Globe

Jared Remy pleaded guilty to murder Tuesday, admitting he savagely stabbed girlfriend Jennifer Martel last August as their 4-year-old daughter watched and three neighbors screamed and tried to stop him.

Remy’s admission means he will spend life in state prison without the possibility of parole. His plea, entered before Middlesex Superior Court Judge Kathe Tuttman, spares friends and family of Martel and Remy the added anguish of a protracted trial and the airing of even more gruesome details. It also means Remy will forgo what the judge called his possible “partial defense” of anxiety, depression, and steroid and prescription drug use.

“I would like to say, ‘Blame me for this, not my family,’?” said Remy, the 35-year-old son of Jerry Remy, the celebrated Red Sox infielder-turned-broadcaster.

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First-degree murder pleas are rare in Massachusetts, which abolished the death penalty three decades ago. Remy admitted there was ample evidence to find him guilty by either legal standard for first-degree murder: a premeditated murder, done with “excessive atrocity or cruelty.”

Read more: http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/05/27/jared-remy-due-woburn-courtroom-today-latest-hearing-jennifer-martel-murder-case/QRd1y01jtYjZFPtZccI9VN/story.html

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(Not sure if this meets the national notability criterion, but the story when he was released on bail last year made the rounds here so I thought I'd add this.) (Also I'm bad at doing time zone conversions in my head so I'm not sure if this makes the time window...)

Here's a timeline of all of Remy's interactions with the police over the past few decades:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/2014/03/22/jared-remy-timeline/RnIJqOgNMk6tryVl1YjATN/story.html

[exboyfil]

1. The guy is filth

but you have to wonder who his defense attorney, who is most likely paid for by the father, is actually representing. If it was me I would have rolled the dice and taken my chances at trial. Of course maybe he is actually repentant of his crimes and wants to turn over a new leaf. You would like to think so.

The big question is whether the daughter goes to the dead girlfriend's family or the live killer's family. Lets see she can live in a demonstrated disfunctional million dollar home (all three kids have been in trouble for assault or worse) or to the wife's family who has modest means but seems to have pretty good kids. I know which one I would choose for the little girl.

This guy's family has been enabling this clown for years. Even with his violent past, his father got him a security job with the baseball club (boy that was a lawsuit waiting to happen).

[hughee99]

5. Custody has already been determined.

The Martel family gets custody, the Remy family has visitation rights.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/03/25/custody-case-over-remy-granddaughter-set-begin-report/1iNxzhXsR81HvGSwcMvp2L/story.html

[MissMillie]

2. What bugs me the most

is that she was on the phone with police one day before her murder, and they let that filth walk.

[Fearless]

3. What a sad, pathetic act for both families involved.

Sometimes the apple does fall so very far from the tree.

[alp227]

4. if he didn't have a rich daddy, he would NEVER have gotten so many 2nd chances.

reading that timeline, geez. The article detailing these cases is here.

[LuckyLib]

6. White and privileged. How many times do you get a "walk" from the court system? Many, it seems,

even when the guy was a walking time bomb.