Black Freed From Prison Locked Up Again for Murder of White Woman

CBS News
July 18, 2015

Casey Chadwick died of being stabbed in the head and neck by a Black.
Casey Chadwick died of being stabbed in the head and neck by a Black.

A Haitian immigrant who was released from prison in January after serving a 17-year prison sentence for attempted murder is back in custody on a murder charge in the death of a Connecticut woman last month.

The Bulletin reports that Jean Jacques’s prison file was marked “Detainer: Immigration” and that Connecticut officials say he was released in January to the custody of the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), but was never deported.

ICE spokesman Shawn Neudauer tells the newspaper the law prohibits him from discussing Jacques’ case.

On Monday, the 40-year-old Jacques was in a Connecticut court to answer to murder and drug charges, stemming from the June 15 stabbing death of Casey Chadwick in Norwich, the city where Jacques lived before he went to prison. The 25-year-old woman’s body was found stuffed in a closet.

According to the Bulletin, in January 2014, Connecticut made history by becoming the first state to enact legislation that prohibited law enforcement agencies from holding people simply because they had a civil immigration detainer put on them.

Jean Jacques had only just finished a 17 year sentence when he was locked up again for murder.
Jean Jacques had only just finished a 17 year sentence when he was locked up again for murder.

The measure was touted as a way to strengthen immigrant families, the newspaper reports, but the law was clear on who was exempt from its protection: Convicted felons and people with a “final order” of deportation from the federal government were chief among them.

Haitian national Jacques fit both categories when he was paroled from prison in January of this year, the Bulletin reported. He had served 17 years in prison for attempted murder, a crime committed in Norwich. But he wasn’t deported, or held for deportation.

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