Ken Cuccinelli tries to help convicted felon Thomas Haynesworth clear his name

Washington Post ^ | 08/20/2013 | Justin Jouvenal

[SeekAndFind]

Thomas Haynesworth sorted mail and made copies early Tuesday at his clerical job in Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II’s office. Then Cuccinelli went to work for him.

In a vaulted courtroom, Cuccinelli passionately tried to convince a Virginia appeals court that Haynesworth is an innocent man. That the state made a mistake when Haynesworth was convicted of rape three decades ago. That his name should be cleared.

Then the two walked back to work.

“I’ll see you up there,” Cuccinelli told Haynesworth as he might any other colleague heading back to the grind.

The relationship between Virginia’s top law enforcement official and parolee is an unlikely one, born of one of the state’s most extraordinary legal cases. Cuccinelli, a law-and-order conservative Republican is a former state senator from Fairfax County who is known as a political bulldog. Haynesworth, 46, is a high school dropout who was arrested at 18.

“He’s an extraordinary guy,” Haynesworth said of Cuccinelli. “A total stranger put it on the line for me.”

When DNA exonerated Haynesworth in two sexual assaults, Cuccinelli was so moved that he invited him in for a personal apology. That meeting led to a job offer. Then Tuesday, Cuccinelli argued before the court.

[Nifster]

Good for Ken. He is doing the honorable thing even if ‘the law’ doesn’t

[WayneS]

This story is a couple of years old, isn’t it?

I’m pretty sure Mr. Haynesworth was fully exonerated in September(?) of 2011.

[Jeff Head]

Here's what Barak Obama said about himself to a firm doing PR for him, when it didn't matter, and when he was first put into the position as the Harvard Law Review's 1st African-American President:

Barack Obama, the first African-American President of the Harvard Law Review, was born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. The son of an American anthropologist and a Kenyan Finance Minister, he attended Columia University.

Bsrack Obama PR Flyer as Harvard Law Review President

Now they want us to believe that that flyer (which he used up until the time he went into the US Senate) was all somehow a mistake and a mis-communication.

Yea...right. Sure it was.

[Pentagon Leatherneck]

This action shows Reaganesque character and thoughtfullness.

TC

[Nifster]

agreed