The District Attorney who convicted the Amiraults on the basis of fantastic accusatory testimony wrung from preschoolers has since gone on to greater things. Former D.A. Scott Harshbarger, who has never ceased to claim that the convictions were just, has now brought his skills to the leadership of Common Cause, the famed good government advocacy group. Neither Mr. Harshbarger nor his prosecutorial successors -- every one determined to do his all to preserve the Amiraults' convictions -- had anything to fear from the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, which upheld the prosecutors in every appeal while ignoring evidence of the most blatant kind pointing to a miscarriage of justice. The stain attaching to Massachusetts' highest court as a result of its treatment of the Amiraults will not easily erase.
we should take names and remember them
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18 posted on 12/25/2001 5:12:16 AM PST by Elle Bee