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He wasn’t the only one. There was a wave of this kind of thing at that time, dozens, maybe hundreds, of innocent people got railroaded.
This kind of stuff happened all over in that time frame. It’s how Janet Reno got her start, for cryin’ out loud.
Their ideological heirs today are people like Nifong, the prosecutor in the Duke Lacrosse case. Anything to get ahead politically, even if it sends the innocent to jail and ruins them.
IOW - lessons on how to alienate your parents ... sad ....
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009456102_recantabuse11m.html
Judge Lewis is likely the only honest Judge in Clark County; and that is based on personal knowledge. I think he will recommend that the convictions be vacated if he can withstand the pressure to not do so. Prior to be appointed to the bench, he was a very successful criminal appellate attorney who won far more than his share of appeals.
Once the conviction is tossed, This guy will have a huge civil rights action against the county and the state. The withholding of evidence is very similar to what happened to t he three guys in MA who were framed by the FBI and US Attorney and pretty much each got $1 million for each year in prison.
I know a lot of the players for the prosecutor's office, the sheriff's office and the courts. Must be one of the most corrupt counties in the United States.
A close friend of mine was married to this lady who had three wild cats for daughters. He literally had to nail the screens onto the windows to keep them from running off. One night the youngest, 14 at the time, got out. She was caught by the cops in the back seat of a car with a 30 year old man in a parking lot of a closed supermarket. She told the cops she ran away from home because her step dad was forcing her to have sex with him. He spent three days in jail (protective custody) until the cops sorted the whole mess out. Filed for divorce as soon as he could get to a lawyer.
Remember McMartin pre school?
Reminds me of Janet Reno. Prosecutors are very often the scum of the earth. They stop at nothing to destroy the lives of defendants. If the evidence exists, so be it. But to lie, cheat and suppress countervailing proof should be punished severely. Sharon Krause should now spend the 20 years the man she railroaded served.
Here in MA, Gerald Amirault, his mother and his sister, were sent to jail for sexually abusing children at their Fells Acres Day Care. Gerald was in jail for over 17 years, several of those after his mother and sister were released, and his Mom died waiting for him to be released. One reason he wasn't released, even when it was CLEAR that he was innocent of the charges was that the prosecutor who tried the case, Scott Harshbarger, was, at the time, in a higher office which he'd gained largely on the weight of having won the Amirault case. He didn't want to admit that he was wrong, so the Amirault family suffered.
This case in WA was even MORE disturbing because of the ultimate betrayal; the mother egging the kids on against their father. It also points up the ability of psychologists to manipulate children to get the testimony that the prosecutor wants.
This is why I keep telling people when accusations like these are made that we should reserve judgement. We have public trials with the right to cross-examine witnesses for a reason.