Updated (3): Multi-Millionaire Actor Seeks Pardon For Youthful Felony

Posted December 5, 2014 9:22 PM ET; Last updated December 17, 2014 9:05 PM ET


Mark Wahlberg, said to be worth $200 million.

How differently journalists, police and courts treat rich and poor persons. The White House laments unequal treatment of black teenagers. Abuse of elder white civilians is not a problem for the President and his lawless Department of Justice. It must have been white privilege that inspired the Cambridge and the Somerville police and the California Syndicate to abuse the court system. The Cambridge police implemented a frame-up in 1990. The City police were hired by one crime family (California Syndicate) to have me arrested. Ten days after I wrote and hand-delivered letters to the Police chiefs and Internal Affairs departments of the Cambridge and the Somerville police departments, complaining of police harassment, the Cambridge police arrested me. It was a frame-up with seven lawyers who were paid to not put on any defense, and five judges. One judge threatened that if I testified he would have me put in a mental hospital. Another judge refused to appoint any more lawyers after I fired seven of them and ordered me to represent myself. When it became clear that the Massachusetts court system is unable to address a police frame-up I agreed to a continuance without a finding against my better judgement. After one year the arrest was supposed to be eliminated from the police computer files. But 24 years later it is still there scaring people as the FBI, the city police, and crime families, have done, keeping me isolated to allow criminal abuses by police and crime families. Now comes the multi-millionaire actor who left a victim blind in one eye, after "frequent run-ins with police." He seeks to have his record cleared. No lawyer would help me get the court to remove the charge. My attempts are thwarted, as on three previous attempts when I sought to get relief from the courts. It is nice to be rich and famous. 

Updated December 16, 2014 8:52 PM ET

[From article]
“He hasn’t changed his ways, he just has money now where he can cover it up,” Taylor told us this week. “You can take Mark out of the trailer park, but you can’t take the trailer park out of Mark.”
Taylor claimed in a $2 million civil lawsuit at the time that Wahlberg punched him in the face and bit him on the arm. But Taylor later dropped the suit, and no criminal charges were ever filed.
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But, Taylor, who’s battled drug addiction, said, “I’m gonna be here every six years doing something to remind people, I’m gonna be in my 70s telling people he attacked me. This is not about money, this is personal. I want to be a painful reminder of what he did.”

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Former Wahlberg bodyguard: Mark should not be pardoned
By Mara Siegler
New York Post, Page Six
December 16, 2014 | 10:27pm

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[From article]
The Smoking Gun website posted his Suffolk Superior Court papers in 1997. Here’s what they said:
In 1986, then 15, the future underwear model and two pals chased a 12-year-old black boy and his older brother and sister as they walked home from Savin Hill Beach.
“We don’t like black (expletive) in the area so get the (expletive) away from the area,” one of the teens said. They threw rocks and yelled, “Kill the (expletive), kill the (expletive).”
The next day, the black boy saw Wahlberg and his two pals while on a school field trip to Savin Hill Beach. Those three and others followed the students and their teacher back to their school. They yelled racial epithets and threw rocks.
In 1988, the 16-year-old Wahlberg attacked Thanh Lam with a 5-foot-long wooden stick on Dorchester Avenue.
“Vietnam (expletive),” Wahlberg said before knocking Lam unconscious.
Wahlberg ran up to Hoa Trinh, a few blocks away, saying, “Police coming, police coming, let me hide.” Then he punched Trinh in the eye.
They took him back to Lam. But Wahlberg told them, “You don’t have to let him identify me, I’ll tell you now that’s the (expletive) whose head I split open.”
Wahlberg served 45 days.
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Yesterday, Wahlberg sent a lawyer from Ropes & Gray — where Gov. Deval Patrick’s wife Diane is a partner — before Suffolk Superior Court Judge Carol S. Ball to unseal his criminal file just long enough to retrieve the paperwork for his pardon application.

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Heslam: For Mark Wahlberg, clean slate requires coming clean
Records still sealed
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
By: Jessica Heslam
Boston Herald

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Updated December 15, 2014 8:49 PM ET

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'It was a lovely, warm June day,' she remembered. Her class of 32 children was predominantly African-American despite the local area being a working-class white stronghold. 'It was the days of busing. There were just three white kids.'
As the grade schoolers walked to the beach, one boy, Jesse Coleman, became agitated. He saw Wahlberg and two other teens on the street. Just the day before the same trio had attacked Jesse, his brother and his sister.
The older boys had chased the siblings on their mopeds, chanting: 'Kill the n*****! Kill the n*****!' according to court papers. One of the boys yelled: 'We don't like black n*****s in the area so f*** off out of the area.'
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'He told me the names they had called him. I said don't pay any attention to them.'
It was on the way back, as they walked up Bay Street, passing a nursing home, that things got ugly as they once again ran into Wahlberg, then 15, and his two cohorts Michael Guilfoyle, 15, and Derek Furkart, 13. according to court papers.
'Several kids said: "They're calling us names." I tried to hurry them up,' said Belmonte.
But Wahlberg's group joined up with a gang of other boys hanging out on the street and the older boys picked up rocks and started throwing them at the terrified pre-teens. 'There were seven or eight other boys, all around the 13-15 age group,' she added.
'These were rocks they were throwing, not pebbles, but rocks.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2874607/Kill-n-r-Kill-n-r-Teacher-reveals-Mark-Wahlberg-thug-friends-chased-taunted-hurled-rocks-fourth-graders-ll-accept-pardon-apology.html

EXCLUSIVE: 'Kill the n*****! Kill the n*****!' Teacher reveals how Mark Wahlberg and 'thug' friends chased, taunted and hurled rocks at her fourth-graders - but she'll accept the pardon for an apology
Mary Belmonte tells MailOnline how a class outing to play in the sand turned into a nightmare for her mostly African-Americans students
Two of the little girls in her care - one black and one white - were hit in the head by a barrage of stones
Kristyn Atwood, one of the girls, does not think it is fair that Wahlberg should get his conviction overturned
MailOnline has discovered that one of the trio - Michael Guilfoyle - is now a senior Boston firefighter
Mary would like a face-to-face apology from the man who was once a racist street tough
By Martin Gould In Westwood, Massachusetts For Mailonline
Published: 14:52 EST, 15 December 2014 | Updated: 20:34 EST, 15 December 2014

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[From article]
On April 8, 1988, when he was 16 and long before he became a model, rapper and actor, Mark Wahlberg -- high on drugs and alcohol -- assaulted a man while trying to steal two cases of alcohol and then punched another man in the face as he attempted to avoid the police.
He was arrested, sentenced and tried as an adult, and he served 45 days in prison.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/05/showbiz/celebrity-news-gossip/mark-wahlberg-pardon/index.html

Mark Wahlberg asks Massachusetts for pardon in 1988 crime
By Todd Leopold, CNN
updated 8:44 PM EST, Fri December 5, 2014
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[From article]
Wahlberg was sentenced in 1988 and served 45 days of a three-month jail sentence. In his petition, filed with the state on Nov. 26, the Hollywood star says his “past convictions still legally impact me to this day,” but notes he has spoken openly about his troubled youth.
“The more complex answer is that receiving a pardon would be a formal recognition that I am not the same person that I was on the night of April 8, 1988,” Wahlberg wrote. “My hope is that, if I receive a pardon, troubled youths will see this as an inspiration and motivation that they too can turn their lives around and be formally accepted back into society.
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Wahlberg, according to his own petition, was 16 years old and high on drugs when he tried stealing alcohol from a man on Dorchester Avenue, beat him over the head with a stick and ran. Minutes later, he punched another man in the face, and when the cops eventually caught him, they found mairijuana in his pocket.
He wrote that it is his "understanding" that he "may have caused serious injuries," though he reportedly left one of his victims blind in one eye. Wahlberg was convicted on charges including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, capping three years of frequent
run-ins with police.
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helped raised $9.6 million through his foundation.
"More privately," he wrote, "I make it a point to attend church nearly every day."

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Mark Wahlberg seeks pardon for 1988 assault conviction
Thursday, December 4, 2014
By: Matt Stout
Boston Herald