As a lawyer for the Anti-Defamation League at the time (I no longer am with the ADL) I was concerned, as were many others in the legal community, that Mr. LaGuer had not had a fair trial. This was based on evidence that there may have been racial bias directed against Mr. LaGuer during jury deliberations. We have since learned that there may have been additional irregularities, among other issues, in the handling of DNA and fingerprint testing related to Mr. LaGuer’s conviction.
It certainly doesn’t serve the interests of justice, the interests of women or the interest of rape victims to have the wrong person in jail for the terrible crime of rape. There are many many good people who have looked at LaGuer case and determined that it deserves a fresh look. Speaking for an unbiased judicial system in the face of evidence that the system may not have operated fairly for Ben LaGuer was the right thing to do and remains the right thing to do today, in my view.
I wish you could see the steam coming out of my ears right now.
I am a rape survivor of 34 years. A violent stranger, that was NEVER caught.
But if he had been, I most certainly would want to be ABSOLUTELY sure he was THE ONE. I didn't have DNA in 1972, hell,and yes, it's true, that back then the victim was the one at fault.
We've come a long way in justice in 3 and a half decades and if you notice, we are no longer VICTIMS, we ARE survivors.
Deval, I believe did the right thing, he removed all doubt and it proved that LaGuer WAS the guilty one! And once it was definitive, he then washed his hands of the case!!!!!
I am sick and tired of the "fear" tactics of the Healy camp. When these attack ads happen, it does bring memories flooding back. It NEVER completely goes away.
We've got to find a way to stop the garbage. I wouldn't give this woman my vote, even without Deval. I wouldn't let her wipe my shoes.
What she and MR. Pretty Hair should be doing is finding a way to KEEP these guys off the street longer than a few months, and STOP making the victims the target of salacious "media".
Tell me Muffy, how do I get over 4 years of you and Mitt????
It's called Patrick/Murray on Nov. 7th.
Barb in Worc.
