Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Crime & Federalism

Criminal Law

: Crime & Federalism

Thinking About Helping Someone?

Anne Danaher made several people - including some already-filthy-rich lawyers - millions of dollars. She's been throw aside like a whore rather than a heroine: Anne Danaher stands amid a mountain of file boxes crammed with court documents, police reports, videotapes and receipts. ?For more than nine years,? she says, gesturing toward the cardboard stacks, ?this was my life.? Danaher, a soft-spoken Kansas City woman with two years of college and no legal experience, helped gain the release in 2003 of a convicted killer who had spent 25 years behind bars in Iowa. She methodically tracked down evidence that pointed to another suspect, racking up thousands of dollars in expenses and taking on three jobs at a time before the prisoner, Terry Harrington, was set free...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 01, 2011 (boomark / email).