See #5. It’s not just Dumond.
It turns out that New York Post columnist Steve Dunleavy was just making stuff up about the case. That is why so many people were misled about DuMond.
1 - The article assumes innocence without demonstrating why. If that was ALL one knew (and with many Freepers it was), then one might well believe a wrong had been done.
2 - Huckabee wasn’t posting his thoughts on the internet. As Governor, he said he wanted to free this man. I would like to think he looked deeper into the case than the average Freeper, particularly since he had full access to the trial, witnesses, etc - and he still screwed it up.
3 - All indications are that Huckabee likes to overturn the Courts because he feels he is more compassionate and forgiving than they are - that he believes his Christianity allows him to turn aside from the law. That is a bad thing in a Governor, and it is worse in a President.