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Grandmother, 70, serving time for dealing drugs in New Hampshire
GOFFSTOWN, New Hampshire - Dora Dubois says she was only trying to help when she left her Rhode Island home last year to join her granddaughter, Michelle Catteau, in Claremont, New Hampshire.
Dubois said she planned to give Catteau some financial help. Unfortunately, she also joined her granddaughter in the illegal sale of some of Dubois's powerful prescription painkiller, OxyContin.
And so while Dubois is still "Gram" to a lot of people - including her new, younger friends on "A" Tier, the prison's lowest-security unit - New Hampshire corrections officials know her as inmate number 35003.
Dubois spent her 70th birthday last month at the New Hampshire State Prison for Women in Goffstown, New Hampshire where she is serving a 7-year maximum term for selling OxyContin. Unless her appeal set for later this month is successful, the former factory worker is likely to reside at Goffstown, New Hampshire for at least a year and a half, the low end of her sentence.
"This is a total nightmare. I never even had a parking ticket before this," Dubois said, wringing her hands during a recent interview at the prison.
Charlie Buttrey of Lebanon, Dubois's lawyer, said he was outraged by the severity of the sentence.
"He treated her as though she's Ma Barker," Buttrey said of Sullivan County Attorney Marc Hathaway after Dubois was sentenced on Sept. 12.
The prosecutor, though, paints a different picture. Hathaway portrays Dubois as a full participant in a family-based drug trafficking enterprise.
"That house was a center for the distribution of just about every kind of drug imaginable," Hathaway told Sullivan County Superior Court Judge Robert Morrill at Dubois's sentencing hearing. "Dora Dubois focused largely on the sale of pills. It was open and notorious."
The New Hampshire police raided the family's home on Old Newport Road in Claremont last February, effectively ending the illicit family business. According to court records, Dubois's daughter, Doreen Carpentier, 48, pleaded guilty in Claremont District Court in March to conspiracy to sell a narcotic drug. She was given a 12-month suspended jail sentence and ordered to maintain good behavior for two years.
The same day Dubois was sentenced, Morrill gave her grandson, Dale Catteau, now 20, 31/2 to 10 years in state prison for selling crack cocaine and two counts of possession of crack cocaine with intent to sell.
Michelle Catteau, 18, was sentenced in July to 31/2 to 7 years in prison for selling crack cocaine and OxyContin and possessing cocaine. Hathaway said Catteau was pregnant at the time and has since been released on probation to deliver and care for her baby.
In August, Buttrey rejected prosecutors' proposal for a plea deal including a 11/2- to 7-year prison term. He said he instead requested a state Department of Probation and Parole pre-sentence investigation which, when completed, recommended that Dubois not be given prison time.
A month later, when Dubois's sentencing hearing resumed, Buttrey filed a straight guilty plea on his client's behalf, leaving the sentence up to Morrill when the hearing continued. Buttrey said he couldn't have imagined that the judge would go along with the prison term Hathaway originally wanted, and said both he and Dubois were stunned when he did.
"It's the rare occasion I'm ashamed to be a part of the criminal justice system, but this is one of them. It's outrageous," Buttrey said, citing his client's age and poor health.
Morrill did not return a message seeking comment for this report.
Hathaway made no apologies for prosecuting Dubois and said claims of her ill health may be exaggerated. "It's not like she was rolled in here on a hospital gurney. She was getting along in the community, now she'll have to get along in a more confined situation. Just because grandma is old and infirm, she shouldn't get a pass."
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Behind bars
A corrections officer led Dubois into a common room at the prison for an interview. With its pink walls, shiny tabletops and gleaming floor, the place seemed pleasant enough, especially as the late-morning sun streamed in. But just outside the windows, the high, chain-link fences topped by thick, barbed-wire coils provided a stark reminder that this is a prison.
How does a septuagenarian, gray-haired grandmother end up living in confinement with women one-third her age? Dubois says now the decision to move from Rhode Island to the Upper Valley was her first mistake.
"My granddaughter called me. She was having financial problems, and she wanted to know if I could help them."
"Them" included Dubois's daughter, Doreen Carpentier, and her two children, Dale and Michelle Catteau. They all lived in the same Claremont home, where Dubois was on medications for ailments including congestive heart disease and asthma.
Early in the interview, Dubois maintained that she was living in fear of other family members and outsiders who came to buy drugs and said she had little knowledge of the drug dealing. Later in the interview, however, she acknowledged, "It's not like I was sitting back not knowing what was going on."
Unbeknownst to family members, confidential informants were coming to the home to buy drugs, and prosecutors built their case with evidence from those visits. When asked about the severity of Dubois's sentence, Hathaway pointed to her role as the family elder.
"Dora was the matriarch of the household, and in that household, within the family unit, everybody was dealing drugs. For a grandparent to permit and encourage that kind of activity is unconscionable. I'm not ready to say that the fact Dora was an elderly, matronly grandmother-type figure negates her responsibility for the sale of controlled drugs. This residence was a central distribution point for multiple types of drugs in the Claremont area at that time," Hathaway said in an interview.
In the sentencing memorandum he filed in Superior Court in September, Buttrey said Hathaway had distorted his client's role in the family drug operation. "The notion that the defendant was the 'matriarch' of this utterly dysfunctional, violent and drug-dealing family is fantastical. She has acknowledged that she sold some of her prescription medications, and an appropriate sanction needs to be imposed. That sanction, however, should reflect the full measure of her culpability," Buttrey wrote.
Kelly Ayotte, the state's deputy attorney general, said there can be a public perception that an elderly person shouldn't be put through the legal system. But in the Dubois case, she said, Hathaway had to ignore that possibility and seek the sentence he believed she deserved.
"Marc has a job to do. He can't ignore the law just because a case involves an elderly person," Ayotte said.
Manchester defense attorney John Kacavas said he can see both sides of the issue.
"I've had a couple of clients in their 50s and 60s, and they do present different kinds of problems. There are health problems; many are impoverished. And how long they have to live is a factor."
Sometimes, he says, older criminals may get a break come sentencing time.
"They're not likely to re-offend, rehabilitation might not be a factor, and a crime they commit can often be an aberration."
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A family torn apart
Hathaway said that, by now, Dubois should know as well as anyone the devastating effects that drugs can have on individuals and families. In the prison interview, Dubois said she does.
She sobbed several times during the interview, including when she recalled her grandchildren when they were small - she says she took custody of them when Dale was 3 and Michelle was 13 months old - in the days before they became involved with drugs.
"Drugs are awful," she said. "They've torn this family apart."
In a telephone interview, Dubois's granddaughter, Michelle Catteau, said, "I went to jail for my stupidity for selling drugs."
Behind bars, her grandmother passes the days knitting and cooking food when she doesn't like what's on the menu. She rises, eats and gets counted twice a day with her fellow inmates. She said she gets along well with the other prisoners and has had no trouble with the corrections officers, an assessment confirmed by prison officials.
Dubois says she's now estranged from her daughter and two grandchildren. In fact, when Michelle Catteau was confined at Goffstown on "B" Tier several weeks ago, they passed once in a hallway and ignored each other. Dubois wants to get out and move to North Carolina with another daughter, Diane Baker, 45.
Baker lives in Claremont, goes to the prison twice a week and worries about her mother's health.
"I'm afraid she's going to have a heart attack. When I went to see her the other day, she broke down and cried on my arm like a little baby," Baker said in an interview. "She needs to get out of there."
Dubois said she's waiting for the day - sometime this month, she hopes - when a three-judge panel will come to the prison and review her sentence, along with those of other inmates. The odds are not good, said Buttrey, since only about 15 percent of such reviews in result in favorable outcomes for those in New Hampshire's prisons.
"I hope I can get out," Dubois said. "I just want to get out of here and go live in North Carolina with my daughter and forget about all this."
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