Lawyer cites medical issues in request to have Peabody man released from prison

SALEM – A Superior Court judge has taken a motion under advisement which seeks to allow William J. Brady, who pleaded guilty in 2006 to shooting his estranged wife and hogtying her son in their Peabody home, to be released from prison because he has Alzheimer?s, according to his attorney.Attorney Lawrence J. McGuire appeared Tuesday afternoon in Salem Superior Court before Judge David A. Lowy requesting that the 73-year-old Brady be released from Norfolk State Prison, where he is serving a 10-year sentence, because he has Alzheimer?s and dementia.On the night of Jan. 14, 2006, Brady broke into his estranged wife?s home at 5 Spinale Road in Peabody, where he confronted her 17-year-old son, Jeffrey Greene, in the living room.Brady pointed a gun at him and told the teenager that his mother was cheating on him. He hogtied the boy, binding his arms and legs, and put a noose around his neck.Rita Greene-Brady, then 44, was dropped off by her friend a short time later. When she entered the home, she found Brady in her kitchen.The two argued before Brady began firing shots, at least four times, one bullet grazed the left side of her neck.Then at gunpoint, he forced her into her car and ordered her to drive away from the house, where he got out of the car near Bishop Fenwick High School.In the meantime, Jeffrey managed to reach a phone and call 911.Brady was arrested several days later outside a home in Swampscott.He pleaded guilty in September of 2006 to a host of charges which included two counts of armed assault in a dwelling, two counts of armed kidnapping, breaking and entering in the nighttime, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and carrying a firearm without a license.During the hearing Tuesday, McGuire presented several letters, including one from Brady?s daughter Robin, who outlined her observations of her father along with documents from his grandchildren and a letter from a caretaker at the institution where Brady is being held.McGuire told Lowy that “Alzheimer?s and dementia have robbed Brady of his body. He is no longer the person that entered the house in Peabody. He is an individual that has no memory and has to be dressed and cleaned.But Assistant District Attorney Greg A. Friedholm, who opposed the shooter?s release, told Lowy that Brady is a violent man” and was a violent man in 2006 when he intended to kill his estranged wife.?We don?t know if he has Alzheimer?s until a tissue sample is done upon his death, as Friedholm challenged the issue,” the prosecutor said.