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SATZ STRIKES BACK!

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

Fast on the heels of an independent expert finding that the Broward SAO convicted an innocent 15 year old boy and sent him to prison for life in 1983, the Broward Blog reports here the reaction of Broward State Attorney Mike Satz.Did Satz thank the expert for helping his office do justice and correct a horrendous wrong? Nope. Did Satz vow to scrutinize cases where a defendant's confession doesn't match the facts? Nope. Satz did the Broward Thing- his office threatened the expert! And really, when you think about the Broward SAO, would you expect anything less then them threatening the people who helped free an innocent man they put in prison? Why if experts start freeing all the innocent people the Broward SAO has put on death row or obtained a life sentence for, the Florida Prison industry itself would be shaken to the core...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on September 07, 2009 (boomark / email).