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| Mass. Jail Inmate Gets New Wedding Date |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 08/05/2003 |
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A new wedding date has been set for a Plymouth County (Mass.) jail inmate who wants to get married while serving out his prison sentence. The state appeals court had earlier ordered Plymouth County Sheriff Joseph McDonough to allow Dwight Kennedy to get married at the jail. McDonough objected, citing Kennedy's history of domestic assault. But he scheduled an April wedding date -- only the bride-to-be and a justice of the peace failed to appear. No explanation was given for their absence. Kennedy requested a hearing for July 30, hoping for a second chance to marry his intended. A Superior Court judge granted his request, setting a date of Sept. 17. 'He's going to show up,' McDonough said. 'It's a question of whether she shows up.' McDonough said the inmate's wedding would be a first for Massachusetts. Kennedy had accused the sheriff earlier this year of interfering with his constitutional right to marry. Kennedy, of Brockton, Mass., is serving a four-year term for assaulting a previous girlfriend. The case parallels that of Garry Jacquet of Haiti, who is being held at the Bristol County House of Correction on immigration charges but wants to marry an American citizen from Somerville, Mass. A federal homeland security official denied Jacquet's request last week. |
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