Post by Shuftin on Oct 28, 2006 7:01:22 GMT -5
September 7, 2006
The defendant is stripped of his assets by a civil suit before the trial. During trial, the prosecutor blocks the defendant's request for DNA testing. The jury is told that there is no other suspect when there were half a dozen. (One who knew the victim and had motive and opportunity was under indictment for molesting the victim's half-sister; he sends that girl away so that she cannot testify and never stands trial.)
A state police detective testifies that he is reading a confession from his notes, although no such words are in his notes. A county detective alters "How could I kill her?" to read " Why did I kill her?" He also testifies that the defendant said, "I told my wife that I did something bad," when his notes actually read, "I told my wife something bad happened." The attorney general's office "subsumes" these notes into the secret state file, where they cannot be examined.
Six days after an appeal is filed the AG's office incinerates potential DNA evidence. The deputy AG hides the results of an investigation of a DNA test.
And so on.
A panel selected by the attorney general, charged with investigating charges of official misconduct, operating without due process, never talking with defense lawyers, giving no explanations, and refusing to answer any questions, finds no fault.
Where did this happen? In a banana republic? In a communist country? A mid-eastern dictatorship? Texas? No. This all happened in our dear old state of Maine.
kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/view/letters/3070647.shtml
The defendant is stripped of his assets by a civil suit before the trial. During trial, the prosecutor blocks the defendant's request for DNA testing. The jury is told that there is no other suspect when there were half a dozen. (One who knew the victim and had motive and opportunity was under indictment for molesting the victim's half-sister; he sends that girl away so that she cannot testify and never stands trial.)
A state police detective testifies that he is reading a confession from his notes, although no such words are in his notes. A county detective alters "How could I kill her?" to read " Why did I kill her?" He also testifies that the defendant said, "I told my wife that I did something bad," when his notes actually read, "I told my wife something bad happened." The attorney general's office "subsumes" these notes into the secret state file, where they cannot be examined.
Six days after an appeal is filed the AG's office incinerates potential DNA evidence. The deputy AG hides the results of an investigation of a DNA test.
And so on.
A panel selected by the attorney general, charged with investigating charges of official misconduct, operating without due process, never talking with defense lawyers, giving no explanations, and refusing to answer any questions, finds no fault.
Where did this happen? In a banana republic? In a communist country? A mid-eastern dictatorship? Texas? No. This all happened in our dear old state of Maine.
kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/view/letters/3070647.shtml