Didn't she already turn him down?? But what about Mitt Romney (should he succeed in his bid)?
Yes, she turned him down. A while back the Supreme Judicial Court of MA rejected his appeal, in the interest of "closure" (justice was not mentioned).
The political problem for anyone who touches this is that, as I understand it, children who have been through those suggestive "interviews" about sexual abuse and are led (coerced?) after denial to say what the interviewer wants to hear remain convinced that they were in fact abused. Whenever the subject comes up, local talk radio draws many calls from the putative "victims," who argue -- near tears -- that they weren't lying. And they weren't; they had come to believe what they said.