PORTLAND, Maine — The state’s highest court has rejected the appeal of a 46-year-old man who was sentenced to 55 years in prison for raping a Rockport woman at knifepoint at her home in 2010.
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court ruled that Superior Court Justice Jeffrey Hjelm was correct in deciding that Bradley Lemay could be tried on a variety of charges at one trial. Lemay’s attorney had argued that the judge had abused his discretion by combining the trials of separate offenses that occurred on different cases.
Lemay was convicted by a jury in June 2011 of gross sexual assault, criminal threatening with a dangerous weapon, eluding police and tampering with a victim. Hjelm sentenced him later that month to 55 years in prison.
Lemay had spent more than 20 years in prison previously for kidnapping and sex offenses and had been out of prison for only four months when he attacked the Rockport woman at her home. Hjelm had noted that the assault was a “horrific four-hour ordeal.”
Lemay had been employed by the landscaping firm that did work on the woman’s home. He appeared at her home one night, entered the house, and held her at knifepoint while he sexually assaulted her.
He led police on a high-speed chase after he left the woman’s home and was captured in Rockland at gunpoint.
While in jail, Lemay sent a letter to his brother asking him to contact the victim and offer her $150,000 to drop the charges. He also asked his brother to threaten the woman if she refused the offer. The brother went to police.
Lemay also tried to escape from the Knox County Jail while he was being held there.
Lemay had argued before the Supreme Judicial Court that the judge should not have combined the offenses that occurred on separate dates.
He’s right where he belongs. THE SLAMMER!!!!!
I’m sorry, but he doesn’t belong in “The Slammer”… He belongs in the Electric Chair!!!
Kudos to the brother, who decided that public decency was more important than brotherly ties.
Good sentence.Judge got this one right.
Good deal that all Lemays charges be tried in one session, the state will save money. The guy must be a sociopath to think he should be free to commit more terror.
Do the world a favor and put a bullet in this rabid dog’s head.
nah…give him the fattest, sweatiest, STINKIEST cellmate possible! Oh ya and the horniest!
It’s apparent that this guy is a crumb. When your appeal is based on the fact that TOO MANY charges against you were tried at once, you’re doomed. In this case. rightfully so.
Too bad someone just didn’t shoot him!
No, the person that did the world a favor would be found guilty of murder.
This seems to scream for capital punishment.
Released and four months later violently rapes a woman???
Justice done liberal style.
This guy would be able to do something useful if he were just castrated and lobotomized. Why do we, the taxpayers, have to support him for the rest of his life?
According to the Maine Department of Corrections website this man is to be released in 2061. He will be 95….Lets hope this is a life sentence!!
He is a very sick person!
A 25 cent bullet should do.
It’s sad that we, the people of Maine, have spent thousands of dollars of our hard earned money for years to keep him behind bars only to have him be let into society only to commit the same crime. I say this time, instead of 55 more years, let’s use his body as an anchor in the ocean.