Not good for my brother John Cameron MacDonald,who was in jail, aqqited when he went to court and turned over to the psyciatric review board,and has been held by a Russian doctor Tress at Whiting Forensic all for nothing.
When they get a patient up there the state gives them money for their pay check so the review board dosn`t like to let the patients go,more patience,more taxpayers money.
One big scam.
~Peace Glenna~

Gee Keith, the article has racist overtones too it. If they had been white would you have written differently? I am shocked at the way this is written..........

I am white. I don't see racism in the way this report is written.

it just goes to show everybody that ANYBODY can end up arrested, convicted, and imprisoned... and then all you have is the appelette process and 2 calls a month to your lawyer...

First of all, I am white and I do not see racism in this report!!! I am involved in a case and still perplex by it all. Meanwhile the person has been in a facility for 7 mos and 2 days...All I hear is short staff, budget, be patience, its not a right its a privilege, paperwork issue and etc as I really can go on... meanwhile the lawyer fee is rising everyday because of all of the excuses. I just wonder if each case is really looked at carefully!!! With this case, the CT tax dollars is certainly being spent unnecessarily...
Take care Mr. Kountz

I am white too and I DO NOT see any racial tones either. Some people just want to start trouble because they are racist. Cut it out!

No racial tones what-so-ever!!...But the fact that these innocent men paid a price, they should be retributed at least 50k a yr for each yr, TAX FREE, one lump sum, Inurance coverage for life for free, medical and dental....
As far as those individuals responsible, ALL individuals, they should pay a price..the prosecuters, judge barred from practicing..Jurors punished in some way...what's fair is fair, an eye for an eye

Jim, calm down... I'm talking about the blog itself. Of course he should be retributed! One poster said that the blog sounded racist-- that's what I was talking about. I agree with you-- he should be retributed without a doubt!

yes anyone can be convicted and jailed for a crime they didnt commit and to sit in that hell hole for 1 minute is too long. these men should have been out a long time agi, in fact they should have never been sent to prison but the judge saw fit to see they had their men and prosectuted yet 2 more innocent people. This state sucks so bad. and i didnt see any racist overtones in the article

I'm ashamed of the state of Connecticut. This is just another example.

It's more than just not getting it right. Peter Reilly, Richard LaPointe, Miguel Roman, and more have been sent to prison for things they haven't done. I myself very nearly became a member of this particular club some years ago.

Part of the problem is established caselaw that says that actual innocence cannot by itself exonerate someone. The actual innocence must be accompanied by a mistake in the trial. This principle came from the nine wise souls in Washington some years ago.

The trial itself is supposed to be about nothing but guilt or innocence. It is the DUTY of every state to provide a trial in such a way, and few do. MOST prosecutors cheat in some way, no matter what they would have us believe.

Police routinely LIE to a person being questioned about a crime, to obtain information from that person. Yet the same cop who lies to a suspect is considered to be credible when he/she is on the witness stand? I personally wouldn't trust the word of ANY such witness. Give me some PROOF that things happened.

These men need to be freed immediately. The state's attorney involved in this case is doing nothing more than keep two men imprisoned, whom he knows full well are completely innocent.This goes beyond confusion in my mind. This, to me, is intentional, unmistakable cruelty.

There is no such racial tones in this article at all. Get real.

What we do in this moment will create the way we feel when this moment becomes the past.
Guilt a usless emotion about past actions because there is nothing we can do to alter the past.
Or clearminded,which leaves us with present moments open to make clear decisions about the future which is somewhere we never really go,but that which comes to us as a present moment today.Today is the tomorrow we were thinking about yesterday, so tomorrow is elusive because it always becomes today..By the time tomorrow arrives as today what we do in the present moment determines how the furute emotions will feel.
So in this moment choose wisely whether you want the usless emotion of guilt when today becomes yesterday and you find yourself in the present moment day of tomorrow which has become today.
How will you have chossen to feel from your actions?
What actions will you choose,knowing yourself so well.If you do something that will make you feel guilty,you may decide to use the other usless emotion worry,and your present moment will flash from yesterday to tomorrow and you will miss today worring and feling guilty over a decision you made because you don`t really know how to make decisions for yourself so that all your present moment for the rest of your furure that comes to you as each today.
So do the right thing now and you don`t have to worry if the cops are comeing tomorrow to arrest you for that which you are feeling guilty for now about what you did yesterday.
~Peace Glenna~

How ignorant can you be, Stacy? Where in this article did you see any inappropriate comments? The article itself raises a very big question and one that I'm sure not all of us have thought of unless we are close to someone incarcerated. Convictions are often thrown out of court due to lack of evidence or mishandling of evidence, this is just the other side of it where the wrong people go to jail due to false testimony or lack of good evidence.

[amquote by="Stacy Kountz" id="64784"]Gee Keith, the article has racist overtones too it. If they had been white would you have written differently? I am shocked at the way this is written..........[/amquote]

What a ridiculous comment. You give humans a bad name.

Isn't DNA technology great? A long time in coming, but it is here to save the innocent as well as convict the guilty.

What happened here? Is your blog dead? Not much here, are we all supposed to be twits on twitter? And where is the public housing smoking story that you asked us to comment on? I know, I'm old - I still watch you on TV and listen to what you say on the air.

Seems this is happening too frequently here in CT. Goes to show how much coruption that is here (Top to bottom). Maybe there should be a reform of the government and justice system here.

thanks for the facts even if they are blue!!

I'll just say this ...I Heard from a "friend" who worked in the prisons where these guys were locked away.They always claimed there innocence ...but if you worked in that enviormnent nyou would hear it 1000's of times. But,these guys were never any trouble after being railroaded so it seems by NH PD just to get some guys who didn't have the means of a Willie Dow or Hugh Keefe to get them off.

I feel so bad for these men and their families. You dont know how it is until you live through it especially when the person is innocent. it is a terrible ordeal for all involved and the people that accuse these men are free to roam the streets and do it again to another innocent person. They should be thrown in jail for lying. and knowing first hand about this ordeal the judges and prosecutors think they have the person that commited the crime. you fight and fight and fight to show your innocent and they dont care. they lock you up anyway even though deep down they too know your innocent but it went so far and they dont want to look like idiots and they throw these innocent people in jail. the person i know this happend to the girl who accused him didnt like him, thats why he was arrested and convicted. she lied in court and the judge knew it but they still prosected him. and his lawyer was an idiot and didnt want to take any more of his time to try to prove his innocence which was terrible. i pray these men are home soon to their families and i hope thay are paid a huge sum of money in restitution. not that it would give them back what was taken away from them but its a start

The judge can't be too sure of himself. They're ordered to wear GPS anklets, and have to check in every week.

I don't find any racism in the artical I feel bad in regards to this whole situation LIFE IS TO SHORT.....Shame on the STATE always trying to make examples instead of taking responsibility and make things right.....

THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT IS HOLDING A LOT OF MEN IN PRISON THAT SHOULD BE OUT. THEY HAVE CASES BEFORE THEM RIGHT NOW WHERE THOSE CORRUPED POLICE OFFICERS FRAMED BEFORE THEY RESIGNED. AND GUESS WHAT THEY PUT PEOPLE IN JAIL LIED ON THE STATEMENTS THAT WERE GIVEN. YET THEY RESIGNED AND WALKED WITH THEIR MONEY AND THEIR FREEDOM AND THE CITY IS PAING THEM BIG TIME MONEY AND THEY WERE CORRUP. WHAT KIND OF JUSTICE IS THAT? AND WHEN THEY FIND OUT THAT THE MEN SHOULD DID NOTHING NOTHING HAPPENS NOR IS THERE AN INVESTIGATION ON THE DETECTIVES THAT PUT THE CASE TOGETHER. WHO WERE THEY THE DETECTIVES AND WHO MANY CASE DID THEY MISS UP ON. THEY HAVE PUT TOGETHER A LOT OF RUSH TO JUSTICE CASES. WHO PUT THEM TOGETHER?
ARE THEY ONE OF THE DETECTIVES THAT RESIGNED? ONE ON THE CORRUP ONES. MAY BE WE SHOULD TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND TRACE THE TRAIL MAYBE THERE ARE MORE MEN THAT SHOULD BE FREE.

It's happening in every state; in addition, many prosecutors (persecutors) become judges. Many defense attorneys are turncoats. Stay at home--stare at the walls, twiddle your thumbs. It's safer.

Looking forward to

hmm not sure

mmmm sandwitch

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