In this post, Gunther begins the story of his sudden transfer to a private prison.
https://guntherfiek.net/2019/03/31/life-unhindered-uprooted-and-plunked-part-i/
Archive for March, 2019
A New Prison Post from my Friend Gunther Fiek
Sunday, March 31st, 2019Lawsuit: Police forced false confession in deadly fire
Thursday, March 21st, 2019“Money is never going to give me back these 35 years of my life, there’s no money in this whole entire earth that can repay me for the time I lost, the people that I lost, I lost even my daughter, my children no grow up with me,” Rosario said. “And all that, they’re never going to pay for that but at least it can alleviate how I’m going to start at the age of 61 how am I going to start my life.”
The National Center for Reason and Justice was a longtime supporter of Victor Rosario’s appeal, and we raised the money to hire his expert witnesses.
See the report from Boston’s TV station WCVB, Channel 5.
Unpopular Speech in a Cold Climate
Saturday, March 16th, 2019
Photograph by Steven Hirsch / Reuters
“There is now such a stigma attached to people accused of sexual misconduct that anyone who defends legal principles on their behalf risks being mistaken, in the public mind, for a defender of sexual violence. Lawyers have always been vilified for taking on unpopular clients, but, in the #MeToo era, defense lawyers endanger their good standing even in the most liberal communities, Harvard being only one example.”
Read the article by Jeannie Suk Gerson in the New Yorker.
$28 million award for “Beatrice 6” whom police psychologist helped railroad to prison
Sunday, March 10th, 2019
Credit: Omaha World-Herald
“Of interest to this blog’s audience is the role of the police psychologist. As I blogged about back in 2008, Wayne R. Price, PhD saw no ethics conflict in helping to interrogate the suspects even though he had previously provided therapy to two of the young women. Dr. Price reportedly reassured the suspects that their lack of any recollection of the crime was because they had repressed the traumatic memory. He later assisted them in reconstructing the details of their imagined crime.”
Read the post at the Forensic Psychologist Blog.
