Friends of Justice

Dear Friend of Justice,

I know that some of you write to Bob Halsey (See http://members.shaw.ca/imaginarycrimes/halsey.htm)

Bob recently wrote to me to tell me that he has been moved. His new address is:

Robert C. Halsey
W-55045
Bridgewater State Hospital
20 Administration Road
Bridgewater MA 02324

At this time I don’t know the reason for the move. Robert is elderly and in poor health. I know that letters and cards are always appreciated.

-Bob

Dear Friend of Justice,

Today a subscriber emailed me a link to this Innocence Project petition, which I hope you will sign.

Massachusetts is one of the states that, disgracefully, has no DNA law.

Go to http://ip.convio.net/site/PageNavigator/947_Petition.

-Bob Chatelle

A blog reader sent me this link this morning: http://www.berkshirehorror.com/A_Berkshire_Horror_Story.html

-Bob Chatelle

I am often asked about how many people are still in prison as a result of the 80s daycare panic. This is an impossible question to answer, since many of the cases were only locally publicized. The Bernard Baran case, for example, was a case that Debbie Nathan just happened to stumble upon when she was researching Satan’s Silence. Had she not come upon a minor reference to the case in the New York Times archive, few would have ever heard of the case to this day.

Recently I received an email about a Florida case that I had known about but had forgotten about: the James Toward case in Florida. Toward now has a committed advocate in a young woman named Kristin Erickson. What makes this especially interesting is that Kristin was one of the children in Toward’s care twenty years ago.

Erickson has set up a web site: http://www.freetoward.org/

There are also some long-forgotten daycare cases at my Dubious Accusations and Conviction page.

If you know of other web sites for these cases, please let me know.

It is so sad to realize that most of these innocent men and women will die in prison because our government is so committed to covering up its mistakes.

-Bob Chatelle

Dear Friend of Justice,

One of my lost posts to the old FOJ list was a reminder that Bob Halsey’s birthday is February 18th. I was hoping that some of you might send him cards. The notice is now short, but I know he would be delighted to receive a belated card.

Bob’s case is one of the saddest sponsored by the National Center for Reason and Justice. Outlandish and impossible claims were manufactured against him by many of the same Berkshire County villains who railroaded Bernard Baran, Bruce Clairmont, and others. You can read more about Bob at http://members.shaw.ca/imaginarycrimes/halsey.htm.

I’m not sure how old Bob will be. He’s in his late 70s and in poor health. His impoverished wife, Mary, now nearly blind, has been in a nursing home for years.

One thing is certain: Bob Halsey, an innocent man, will die in prison.

Here is Bob’s address:

Robert C. Halsey
W-55045
MCI-Shirley
Unit A1
PO Box 1218
Shirley, MA 01464

-Bob Chatelle