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A Call For Larry Craig To Stand Up For Defendants (Cue The Crickets)

By Brian Tannebaum

Richard Cohen of the Washington Post writes this great editorial today on why Larry Craig should speak out for those that are coerced to confess.I'll hold my breath......Some quotes from the editorial entitled "When a person is arrested and coerced to confess""Having been arrested in a Minneapolis airport men's room, having been compelled (or so he says) into a false confession, having been roundly ridiculed and ostracized by many of his colleagues -- et tu, McCain? -- he has neither the gumption nor the integrity nor the wit to question some of his former positions that made him, without a doubt, a law-and-order conservative par excellence. Craig wasn't exposed as gay. He was exposed as uneducable.""Along with almost everyone else outside the Republican Senate Caucus -- when the door opens the blast of toxic hypocrisy is enough to deck the average person...continue to full post

Full post as published by Criminal Defense on October 10, 2007 (boomark / email).