It was a deliberate political witch hunt during that era, and the Federal prosecutors involved just didn't give a sh*t if someone was innocent or not, they just wanted scalps they could present to their boss.
Given what I have been told of his experience, I have absolutely no confidence in the integrity of the prosecutors that prosecuted this woman. Even on the face of it, the case doesn't sound right. Given the facts claimed from the differing sides, at worst she made a mistake in judging the intentions of a suspect. The suspect was not even badly hurt. Certainly not to the extent that she deserved 10 years in prison.
For that kind of sentence, the suspect should have been crippled by the attack or something.
But perhaps she is guilty. My point is that I trust nothing Federal prosecutors did during this period to be honest and forthright, and if I was to bet, I would bet she was wrongfully convicted by Federal prosecutors who threatened anyone they needed to threaten to force them to assist them in obtaining a conviction.
Agreed. No matter what happened, that 10-year sentence sounds excessive.