Repeat Offenders / Re: March 1 column - child abuse trials

["Toto" <toto@sk.sympatico.ca>]

Now, if only we could get a conviction...

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>    FROM MOUNTAIN MEDIA
>    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DATED MARCH 1, 1998
>    THE LIBERTARIAN, By Vin Suprynowicz
>    Where are they now?


>  Only last week did a three-judge panel of the 11th Circuit Court of
>Appeals, in a unanimous ruling, overturn the conviction of Miami police
>officer Grant Snowden, sentenced in 1986 to five life terms on charges he
>had committed sexual crimes against small children.

...
>  If juries are willing to embrace "professional" testimony that small
>children who make fantastic, rambling accusations are telling the truth
>"99.5 percent of the time," have we really come so far from the days of the
>Salem witchcraft trials ... which ended, instructively enough, when 23
>Massachusetts juries in a row finally refused to convict?
...

>  What about those prosecutors, by the way? What ever did become of the
>ambitious Dade County State Attorney whose office prosecuted Officer
>Snowden -- now ordered to be released "unless the state affords him a
>speedy new trial"?
>
>  Why, her name was Janet Reno, and she was elevated in 1993 to the
>position of attorney general of the United States, where she immediately
>oversaw the "protection" of the children of the Mount Carmel religious
>community in Waco, Texas, by federal agents who trapped them in their
>church by using armored vehicles to knock down walls and escape staircases,
>injected the premises with poison gas, and in the process started a fatal
>conflagration by knocking over kerosene lanterns and space heaters, all
>while fellow G-men poured "suppressive" automatic weapons fire into the
>structure to stop anyone from escaping or resisting.
>
>  (See it for yourself, as filmed by federal government cameras: Order the
>video "Waco: The Terms of Engagement," now nominated for an Academy Award
>as best documentary, at $25 by dialing 1-800-771-2147, ext. 19.)
>
>Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas
>Review-Journal. Readers may contact him via e-mail at vin@lvrj.com. The web
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