Immigrant Gets Second Bite at Plea Deal Apple Because Judge Didn’t Read Him Enough Deportation Warnings

Immigrant Gets Second Bite at Plea Deal Apple Because Judge Didn’t Read Him Enough Deportation Warnings

A non-citizen immigrant who admitted showing two men a gun and threatening to shoot them has had his quasi-guilty plea thrown out because the trial-court judge gave him one warning that he might be deported because of it but not two.

Court papers say Denver Petit-Homme on August 6, 2016 drove to a barber shop near the intersection of Washington Street and Bowdoin Street in Dorchester, left the vehicle, approached two men, showed them a gun in his waistband, and threatened to shoot them. Then he got back in his vehicle and drove away.

Frederick Douglass:  Greatest African-American of the 19th Century 
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Frederick Douglass: Greatest African-American of the 19th Century 

Robert Bradley

Frederick Douglass:  Prophet of Freedom
By David W. Blight
Simon & Schuster
October 2018

Frederick Douglass was the Martin Luther King Jr. of the 19th century. Former slave, author, orator, and statesman, Douglass was the principal black figure in the fight to abolish slavery. Over his long career, he became one of the best-known Americans of his day.

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