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 Read the first chapter of The Wrong ManJAABLOG HOLIDAY READ - pick up a copy of "The Wrong Man" if you have extra time on your hands.  It's a real page turner, all about the SAO's rancid prosecution of innocent man John Purvis.  Purvis, mentally handicapped, was browbeaten into confessing to the murder of Susan Hamwi and her infant daughter, on lovely Poinsettia Drive* in Fort Lauderdale.From a 2003 Sun Sentinel article:In 1985, just months after Purvis was convicted, police and then-prosecutor Robert Carney, now a Broward Circuit judge, received information that Hamwi's ex-husband, Paul Hamwi, had hired someone to kill her. They checked it out but closed the case and never told Purvis or his attorney.Years later, Purvis' appellate lawyer, Steve Wisotsky, a law professor at Nova Southeastern University, asked for the file...continue to full post

Full post as published by JAABlog on December 22, 2009 (boomark / email).