leniency was the rule
But for the first time, prosecutors had a victim willing to testify against Remy, son of one of the most beloved figures in New England.
He was 22 and could not keep a job or stay out of trouble. His parents had hired him the same high priced lawyer who had prevailed over the district court prosecutors in Jared prior cases. So far that lawyer was five for five, sparing Remy jail time, a guilty finding, or anything more than temporary probation.
But prosecutor Joshua E. Friedman did not see Jerry Remy son as a young man with a record clean of convictions, charged now with a minor offense. He saw him as steroidal and entitled, violent and unrepentant. tiffany Guyette, his alleged victim, saw him that way, too. She said Remy had been abusing her since she got pregnant by him at 15, four years earlier.
Since then, Guyette said, he had tried to push [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] her from a moving car while she was pregnant, waited for her in the dark with a baseball bat, and repeatedly paged her with the number 187, street slang for murder.
For all that, however, she had not spoken against him in court before, believing his promises that he would change, she said.
he does not learn to handle his anger, he could ultimately hurt me, my son, someone else, or himself. So when Remy allegedly unleashed another death threat over the phone, Guyette notified police. She resolved to face him in court.
She wrote a letter to the judge, describing her coaster experience and warning that Remy was growing more brazen. She did not know if he could be redeemed, but held out hope that the right message his first finding, time behind bars, and meaningful counseling could restore the and caring Jared she once knew.
Prosecutor Friedman agreed, wanting a sharp sentence to hopefully teach him some kind of lesson that this was not OK. judge set trial for June. But Guyette never got the chance to testify. When they reconvened, Judge Neil J. Walker accepted a proposal from defense lawyer Peter Bella. Over the prosecutor objections, Walker continued and then dismissed the case.
Thirteen years, 14 more cases, and one murder count against Remy later, Guyette letter remains on file in Lowell, its last line hauntingly prescient. he does not learn to handle his anger, she warned, could ultimately hurt me, my son, someone else, or himself. A review of hundreds of pages of court files and police records revealed accounts that he terrorized five different girlfriends starting when he was 17, and that courts repeatedly let him off with little more than probation and his promise to stay out of trouble. He rarely did.
Now 35, Remy has been arrested or brought to court as the defendant in 20 different criminal cases, mostly for charges of violence against, or intimidation of, women, including his pending case for allegedly murdering his girlfriend, Jennifer Martel, in Waltham last August.
Remy has been found guilty just twice, and both times his lawyer persuaded a judge to let him walk with a suspended sentence, defying the wishes of prosecutors.
Often he benefited from victims who did not want to testify, whether from fear or forgiveness, leading prosecutors to drop the case. But even when cases seemed airtight, judges often rewarded Remy with a nearly free pass temporary probation without the stain of a guilty finding. Most offenders are lucky to get two such reprieves. He got six.
And on more than 10 occasions while already serving probation or waiting for an earlier case to be resolved, Remy was arrested again on new charges or otherwise ran afoul of the law a pattern of incorrigibility that would ordinarily get a person locked up.
But he continued to walk, with judges extending his probation or finding creative solutions to help him avoid jail, like ordering him to move home with his parents and observe a curfew a measure common in juvenile courts, but rarely employed for adults.
Bella, Jared Remy longtime defense attorney, said he does not believe Remy any special treatment in court.
happened to his cases happened because of the facts of those cases and the [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] circumstances of those cases, and not because he was Jared Remy, Bella said.
Still, Bella said that Remy benefited because victims wavered and acknowledged that as a former prosecutor with decades of experience he knew the [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] ins and outs of the system, helping Remy fare better than he might have with a public defender or the less experienced counsel he could have afforded without his parents support.
is an old story for the American judicial system. You get a high priced attorney, you get better justice, said Friedman, the former Lowell prosecutor. he had been Jared Smith from a well off family, he may have gotten the same result. he was not Jared Smith. Remys declined to be interviewed but issued a statement through one of the family lawyers. In it, Jerry Remy acknowledged Jared number of criminal charges as well as his history of and lack of self control issues into his 20s.
can also say that, unfortunately, no parents are immune from trouble with their children. My wife [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] and I did everything we could to provide Jared with the necessary professional help, Jerry Remy said, indicating that they thought Jared problems had been brought under control, noting a stretch from December 2024 to last summer without an arrest for violence. occurred in August 2024 took my family by complete surprise. We loved Jennifer and treated her as if she was our own daughter. Remys did not address the seemingly endless reservoir of financial support that Jared enjoyed over the years for his mounting legal bills or for rent, cars, car insurance, gym memberships, tanning, cable TV, and other expenses, which several people described, including Guyette and Kristina Hill, a neighbor and close friend of Martel brother and sister, like Jared, were represented by Bella in court appearances for their own handful of encounters with the law. Some were for lesser matters like marijuana possession and disturbing the peace. But each also has been arrested in recent years on more serious charges. Jordan Remy admitted in a 2024 case that there was enough evidence to convict him of following home and groping a woman who rebuffed him at a bar. Jenna Remy admitted sufficient evidence for a conviction in court this month on charges she broke into an ex boyfriend home and assaulted the police officers who tried to arrest her. Like Jared, both got probation while avoiding convictions.
But Jared Remy trouble defined him in a way his siblings did not. Interviews with more than 40 former friends, neighbors, co workers, police officers, and others contacted by the Globe including many speaking publicly for the first time paint a picture of a disturbed, havoc wreaking life and a criminal justice system that failed to rein it in.
Even as a young man, he had several encounters with police, and three witnesses now say Remy at 18 was an instigator behind an unprovoked and brutal beating of a former schoolmate that left the teen with a severe brain injury. just toxic, said Candice Wright, who participated in the beating and said she has carried the weight of regret for 17 years. preyed on certain people.
Last August, after Jared Remy allegedly assaulted Martel, slamming her against a bathroom mirror, Martel spent the night at Hill apartment next door. Hill said she encouraged Martel to go to court the next morning to extend an emergency restraining order against Remy. But Martel told her that she had promised the Remys she would stay home, Hill said. In his statement, Jerry Remy said the family did not discourage Martel in any way from extending the restraining order. Whatever the reason, Martel did not go to court, and Jared was released. Prosecutors later acknowledged they put too much stock in Martel absence. The next night, she was dead.
Jared Remy pleaded not guilty to murder and assault and is being held without bail while awaiting trial. The murder left the couple now 5 year old daughter, Arianna, without a mother, upended the lives of those who cared about Martel, and sent shock waves throughout New England. Until then, Jared Remy pattern of aggression was known only in a fairly small circle. Just one of his many arrests for a 2024 domestic assault had made news before.
A little over three years after that arrest, Remy father seemed hopeful that Jared worst days were behind him. an episode that in the past, Jerry Remy told the Globe in early 2024, referring to the arrest that had made the news. now the proud father of two children. But it something he really regrets. But by the mid 1980s, some Weston neighbors were wary of Jared and his reputation for throwing rocks.
From an early age, Remy wrestled with dyslexia and aggression, and by adolescence, the Weston Public Schools paid for him to attend the alternative Gifford School, a nurturing center for children from around the region with learning or emotional challenges.
Initially, Remy was allowed to continue playing after school sports at Weston High. The 1993 94 yearbook shows him as a handsome, baby faced 15 year old on the freshman basketball team nothing like the muscle bound hulk too big to fit in back of a police cruiser on the night of his murder arrest two decades later.
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