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| Inmate's Second Chance Ends in Murder Charge |
| By Pensacola News Journal |
| Published: 11/25/2002 |
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Michael Trimuar got the break he`d begged for when Florida prison officials released him only nine months into his 37-month burglary sentence. For Elizabeth Boliew, that break may have been a death sentence. Trimuar, 21, is accused of murdering Boliew, 58, on a day that, had his original sentence been carried out, he would have been in prison. His term originally was scheduled to end on Sept. 19, 2002, including time off granted by the prison. But he was actually released on July 11, 2000, and Boliew was killed on Dec. 10, 2001. Trimuar`s break came via a four-month Department of Corrections 'boot camp' program designed to shock young offenders into rehabilitation. A state law says that inmates who successfully complete the program are released from prison and placed on probation for the remainder of their sentence. Circuit Judge John Kuder, who also is scheduled to preside over Trimuar`s January trial on a charge of first-degree murder, recommended the then-17-year- old for boot camp when he sentenced him for burglary on Oct. 15, 1999. The Department of Corrections accepted the recommendation, and Kuder approved it. When Trimuar completed the program, Kuder freed him to return to Pensacola on probation. After returning to Pensacola on probation, he lived with his mother in East Hill for 13 months, then rented a nearby apartment in Boliew`s home. He enrolled at Pensacola Junior College. He held down a series of jobs, ranging from working for a cellular telephone company to working for a movie theater. For a time, Trimuar appeared to be living up to his promise to Kuder that, if he got out of prison, 'you will never see me or hear of me again. Unless it is for something good.' But then, on Dec. 10, 2001, Boliew was murdered. Ten days later, Trimuar was charged, accused of stabbing and strangling the real estate saleswoman while under the influence of drugs. He has been jailed without bond since then. Trimuar`s trial is set for Jan. 6. If he`s convicted of first-degree murder, the 21-year-old defendant faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison. It`s a life that Trimuar had disavowed when he wrote Kuder. 'I know what it is like in jail now,' he wrote then. 'And I never want to come back. I know that I will never do anything to put me and my family through this. So please give me one more chance out there.' |
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