The Nanny Case was different, but you are right she was involved. She is not running unopposed but in this overwhelmingly Democratic, knee jerk state it would need a miracle for her not to win. Dorothy Rabinowitz from the WSJ really fought long and hard for the Amiraults in the Fells Acre Day Care case. Unfortunately she appears to be largely retired and is no longer a voice for sanity and reasonableness among investigative journalists.
What is interesting in all this is the notion of hysteria in crowds and the ability and willingness of certain individuals to manipulate the proclivity for groupthink. The Salem Witch trials are a great example - with 3 Sovereigns for Sarah being a great adaptation. Fortunately the efforts of the blogs and FR have helped prevent a gross miscarriage of justice.
Not so sure the Nanny case was different.
Do you know how many MDs were stacked on that jury? Do you find it odd that an infant of 7months couldn't sit upright. Some strange stuff went on there.
Dorothy Rabinowitz was a real hero in that case. I went to a seminar at Harvard where she spoke. She seemed very frail.
The Salem Witch Trials - great analogy.
Alas the difference between the Salem witch trials and the attempt to criminalize anything but leftist thought today is that the people of MA learned from the Salem witch trials. I don't see the same thing being true about the day care witch hunts of the 1990s?