February 17, 2011
Boston Herald
Robert Cordy, a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court and a veteran of Gov. William Weld’s administration, said Thursday that placing the Probation Department under the control of the Executive Branch could leave the agency vulnerable to “the political mood.”
“The governor’s just fired the parole board,” he said, referring to Gov. Deval Patrick’s decision to accept the resignations of five of the seven Parole Board members after the shooting death of a Woburn policeman by a paroled convict.