By Antonio Planas
Boston Herald
BOSTON — Raymond K. Wallace’s lawyers tried to win leniency for him after the first time he grappled for a cop’s gun, by blaming his parents’ divorce and his damaged self-esteem for putting the rogue inmate on the road to a bizarre life of crime, according to a 2005 appeal document.
Wallace — now accused of shooting a deputy in the Massachusettts Eye and Ear Infirmary emergency room Wednesday — was then fighting his conviction for his heavily armed 2001 break-in at an ice cream stand in Waltham where, dressed in black special-ops gear, he wrestled with cops who caught him in the act and shot him.
“The divorce of Wallace’s parents and subsequent move from Ithaca, New York, to Framingham, Massachusetts, began a series of events that chipped away at Wallace’s self-esteem until little was left,” stated a mental evaluation quoted in the 2005 appeal. “The end result was Wallace’s attempt to regain his sense of self-worth by brazenly breaking into the Pizzi Farm Stand on August 17, 2001.”
Wallace was found to have an arsenal of guns and exotic knives at that time. Wallace’s 2005 lawyers could not be reached last night for comment. Wallace was paroled until 2009.
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