Nifonged
From the Herald-Sun:
It wasn't all that long ago a great hue and cry went up around the land that out-of-control prosecutors needed to be reigned in. Supporters of the three wrongfully accused Duke lacrosse team members all over the internet (and, as i recall, one or two of the lacrosse players themselves) were railing against injustice and vowing to make sure this kind of thing never happened again.
Here's your chance to step up to the plate, folks. It's not like a whole lot of people are talking about this case right now.
Because their pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears elsewhere, defense lawyers have turned to Durham's top judge in a last-ditch effort to free a mentally retarded man held 14 years without trial for allegedly killing a woman in Wadesboro.
Court documents describe the case as a "quintessential example" of a prosecution run unconstitutionally amok, a "perfect storm of injustice."
On Oct. 8, Judge Orlando F. Hudson will hear arguments about whether the defendant -- Floyd Lee Brown -- will continue to be detained at the state's Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh, and whether the homicide charge against him should be dismissed.
It wasn't all that long ago a great hue and cry went up around the land that out-of-control prosecutors needed to be reigned in. Supporters of the three wrongfully accused Duke lacrosse team members all over the internet (and, as i recall, one or two of the lacrosse players themselves) were railing against injustice and vowing to make sure this kind of thing never happened again.
Here's your chance to step up to the plate, folks. It's not like a whole lot of people are talking about this case right now.
Labels: Duke lacrosse, Floyd Lee Brown, injustice, Mike Nifong
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1 Comments:
Wow. Even with the reams written about anything tangential to the Lacrosse frame-up, including much about the innocence project and of other 'rush to judgment' or prosecutorial misconduct cases nationally and in the area, this is the first I've heard of this case.
One article makes it sound like he'd be free already if he just had someone enlisted as a legal guardian with power of attorney, enabled to deal with the court on his behalf. I don't have the training involved, and know nothing beyond that quick google search of the case, but it really does seem like a small amount of effort would be involved to see this man set free. It would be picking low hanging fruit for say the ACLU or Innocence Project.
Maybe someone should get in touch with Barry Scheck, since he'll be in NC anyways representing Reade Seligmann against Durham.
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