Family Forum / Parenting / Spanking / December 2006

How does Dan Sullivan overcome real world process like THIS?

http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/view/letters/3070647.shtml

Thursday, September 7, 2006

Civil lawsuit rife with errors committed by state

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.

William Bunting

Whitefield