Posted on 02/19/2015 10:58:39 AM PST by jalisco555
A wrongfully convicted man filed a $40 million lawsuit on Tuesday against Northwestern University, a former journalism professor, a private investigator and an attorney, accusing them of framing him for a double murder to get another man released.
Alstory Simon, 64, of Ohio, claims in the lawsuit that he was the victim of unethical tactics by a team focused on freeing another man in what became a celebrated Illinois wrongful conviction case.
Simon was imprisoned in 1999 after confessing to the 1982 murder of two people in a park, and spent more than 15 years behind bars before he was exonerated on Oct. 30, when prosecutors decided his confession was coerced.
Simon "has endured and will continue to endure immense and
immeasurable, emotional and physical, pain and suffering, all of which was proximately caused by defendants' misconduct," said the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in the Northern District of Illinois.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
Not shocking at all to me.
The lawsuit also said that attorney Jack Rimland was hired by Northwestern, through Protess and Ciolino, to represent Simon, and that Rimland coerced Simon to plead guilty, lied about the strength of the evidence against Simon, withheld witness testimony implicating Porter and threatened Simon.These guys are trying to pin a murder on you. So... you let them hire an attorney for you?
If it’s true, I hope Simon gets the whole $40 mil. The indicated procedure is par for the course for liberals. They manufacture things to support their contentions when finding real situations is not easy. They justify it by saying that the “truth” needed to be illustrated. They believe that people are not individuals, anyway, but interchangeable parts of groups and that if the group is perceived as being representative of some imagined error then every designated member of that group is guilty and it doesn’t matter which ones are selected for being an educational illustration.
They do not actually state such a belief; but they act as though they held it to be true.
This is not being high minded. This is being blindly vindictive.
“...if the group is perceived as being representative of some imagined error then every designated member of that group is guilty and it doesn’t matter which ones are selected for being an educational illustration.”
The 2006 Duke lacrosse team “rape” fiasco came to my mind when reading your words.
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Popcorn, check. Better have a big beverage with that, check.
Lawsuit Claims Innocence Project Professor Conspired to Frame Man for Double Murder
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/02/17/alstory_simon_lawsuit_claims_david_protess_of_the_innocence_project_conspired.html
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