Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
May 1st, 2018
The Appellate Squawk blog, written by a New York attorney who specializes in criminal appeals, portrays the majority’s willingness to second-guess the jurors by crediting testimony they rejected as another example of the special rules that seem to apply in cases involving sex crimes. “Naturally the Court doesn’t admit that it moves the goalposts for sex cases,” it says. “But these days, when it comes to accusations of sexual misconduct, the standard of proof is that they were made. The Court is simply going with the flow—which, by definition, is downhill.”
Read the article by Jacob Sulium in Reason.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
April 7th, 2018
Most of you are familiar with the sad case of Joseph Allen.
Joseph has been having health problems lately. Most recently, he developed an uncontrollable nosebleed. He had to be taken from prison to a hospital. The problem was finally corrected by surgery.
I got a call from Joseph this morning. He is back in prison and wounded reasonably well.
Joseph loves to get cards. Here is his addredd:
Joseph Lee Allen #A293-486
Grafton Correctional Institution
2500 South Avon Beldon Road
Grafton, Ohio 44044-9802
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
March 31st, 2018
The crucial question posed in the series “Global Child Rights and Wrongs” in the Sunday Guardian is how—and why—child protection laws should, over the past few decades, have led to the wrongful conviction of thousands of innocent parents and care givers world-wide, with devastating consequences for all concerned. The scale of these wrongful convictions would imply, if self-evidently, some unique malfunctioning of the legal system —a failure to fulfil its prime purpose of distinguishing guilt from innocence. To be sure, justice can miscarry—hence the opportunity provided by the appeal system to strike down judgements that, in the light of subsequent evidence, prove to be erroneous. But the situation here is quite different—a systematic (or systemic) miscarriage of justice entrenched within the legal system over many years.
Read the article by Dr. James Le Fanu in The Sunday Guardian.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
March 19th, 2018
The juggernaut of what has become a remorseless child abuse industry rolls on, with parents being framed by protection agencies and wrongfully convicted on the basis of speculation and conjecture.
Read the article by Dr. James Le Fanu in the Sunday Guardian.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
March 5th, 2018
As Clarence Darrow famously said, “You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” Protecting the constitutional rights of everyone, even those convicted of sex offenses, is of the upmost importance for protecting our freedom. Therefore, both legislators — by way of developing and amending laws — and judges — via hearing arguments and creating case law — must re-examine SORNA in order to preserve liberty and uphold the Constitution.
Read the article by Jesse Kelley in The Hill.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
February 23rd, 2018
“Whether formulated for political organizing (the right’s ‘Save Our Children’), or inflated/concocted from real claims (the priest scandal), or entirely concocted (the day-care frenzy), or fueled by exaggerated statistics and unstable definitions (the college ‘hunting ground’), these panics have shared features. Sex figures as a preternatural danger, emotion swamps reason, monsters abound, and protection demands any sacrifice.”
Read the article by JoAnn Wypijewski in The Nation.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
February 15th, 2018
For the affirmative: NCRJ Director Dr. Emily Horowitz
For the negative: Marci Hamilton from CHILD USA
Watch here.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
February 13th, 2018
Bob Halsey turns 89 on February 18th. I am surprised he is still alive. He has been in bad health for years.
Bob is an innocent man who has been in prison since September of 1993. He will die in prison. And even if by some miracle he were to be released, he has nowhere to go and no one to take him in.
Bob was railroaded by many of the same characters who sent Bernard Baran to prison. Baran’s prosecutor, Dan Ford, was the trial judge. Jane Satullo was the chief interrogator of the children.
You can learn more about his case.
Here is the address for cards:
Robert C. Halsey
W-55045
POB 1218
Shirley MA 01464
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
February 7th, 2018
david robinson/iohud
“A New York State psychiatric center operated illegally with impunity while two dead bodies, 40 assaults and 25 sex offenses triggered police responses behind its walls from 2012 to 2016, The Journal News/lohud has found.
“The newly obtained tally of violence, roughly one attack per month, is part of 210 criminal incidents at Central New York Psychiatric Center. Much of the violence involved the mentally ill men locked up there, and it unfolded without the independent monitor required by law.
“From rapes and beatings to illicit drug use and falsified treatment records, the incidents offered a rare look into problems inside the closely guarded psychiatric center, according to records obtained by The Journal News/lohud through Freedom of Information Law requests.”
Read the exposé by David Robinson in The Journal News.
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Friends of Justice is a personal blog. Here I speak only for myself.
February 5th, 2018
Posted in Innocents, Sex Panic | Comments Off on A new prison post from my good friend, Gunther Fiek
