Archive for November, 2017

NY top court gives Jesse Friedman partial victory

Thursday, November 30th, 2017

Credit: Linda Rosier

Friedman’s Manhattan attorney, Ronald Kuby, called the decision “an emphatic triumph for the principles of open government” and the wrongfully convicted, who he said “will have a far easier task obtaining essential documents.”

His statement also called the ruling “a stinging rebuke to successive Nassau County district attorneys, who first created a moral panic over nonexistent sex abuse allegations and then tried to create a moral panic as to the consequences of releasing the documents that demonstrate prosecutorial misconduct.”

Read the article by Yancey Roy and Bridget Murphy in Newsday.

A new prison post from my friend, Gunther Fiek

Monday, November 27th, 2017

Inside the Fence

What Jury Found Kevin Spacey Guilty?

Wednesday, November 15th, 2017

Chris Pizzello / Invision/AP

“Is Kevin Spacey a criminal sexual molester? I don’t know. Neither do you, unless you were actually molested by him, or, it seems, unless you’re the Boston Globe. ‘This Was A Criminal Act,’ the Globe headline blared, repeating former local news anchor Heather Unruh’s claim that Spacey groped her son at a bar in Nantucket last summer. The single quotes around the claim that Spacey is a criminal (who has yet to be indicted except in the media) don’t mitigate the headline’s clear presumption of guilt. They simply allow the Globe to level a sensational accusation while pretending to present an unbiased account of one.”

Read the commentary by Wendy Kaminer at WGBH News.