Fells Acres : Gerald Amirault

News items and editorials:
» Man at heart of 1980s child abuse case may be freed
» 'Free Tooky'; Parole Board votes to commute sentence
» Kin of victims 'very angry' at recommendation
» Bad clown spooks her now as adult
» Memories questioned, but victim still certain of evil - Studies say kids can
   be easily led
» Chronology of Fells Acres abuse case
» Swift's aides seen leaning in favor of freeing Amirault
» It's about fairness, not about innocence
» Amirault's commutation would close chapter of '80s spate of child-abuse
   prosecutions
» Righting an injustice

Cheryl Amirault LeFave
» Just who is guilty here? Boston Globe, Oct. 22, 1999 (Opinion)
» Long chapter in Fells Acres case ends, but nobody wins, Boston Globe,
   Oct. 22, 1999 (Analysis)
» LeFave granted freedom, Boston Globe, Oct. 22, 1999

» Examining America's human rights record

Related:
» False Memory Syndrome
» Satanic and/or Ritual Abuse and related issues

America's Flawed ''Justice'' System
» Examining America's human rights record
» Actual Innocence : Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from
   the Wrongly Convicted

by Jim Dwyer, Peter Neufeld, Barry Scheck

Amazon.com:
The Innocence Project is a pro bono civil rights organization that helps innocent people who have been unjustly imprisoned win their freedom through DNA testing. Run by Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld (known for their roles in the O.J. Simpson murder trial), the project has thus far managed to free 43 wrongly convicted people and has taken on the cases of over 200 more. In Actual Innocence, Scheck, Neufeld, and Pulitzer-winning columnist Jim Dwyer tell the stories of 10 of the men they have helped. How did these men wind up in prison--some on death row--for rapes and murders they didn't commit? The causes range from mistaken identification by the victims to sloppy police work--and, in some cases, outright dereliction of duty or fabrication of evidence. Far too often, cops lock on to their suspect early and decide that their instincts can't possibly be wrong--an attitude that can persist even after the falsely accused has been exonerated. ''If he is innocent,'' says one investigator of a man who spent seven years in prison, ''I wish him a good life, but I will have no remorse for him. I have no remorse for anyone that I have ever arrested.''
[...more...]

George F. Will, Washington Post, April 6, 2000:
It should change the argument about capital punishment...You will not soon read a more frightening book... Heartbreaking and infuriating.
[...more...]

Editorial Reviews, Amazon.com

See also:
Justice at Last
Dorothy Rabinowitz on the Amirault case.
Opinion Journal/Wall Street Journal, July 9, 2001 (Ediotorial)
http://opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=95000790

On Jan. 30, 1995, The Wall Street Journal published ''A Darkness in Massachusetts,'' an article by Dorothy Rabinowitz exposing the phony 1986 child-abuse convictions of the Amirault family of Massachusetts. Now, as Ms Rabinowitz reports today, Massachusetts' parole board has voted to commute the sentence of Gerald Amirault, the last of the family behind bars. Mr. Amirault has spent more than 15 years in prison. Here's a collection of Ms. Rabinowitz's work on the story over the past five years:

A Darkness in Massachusetts, Jan. 30, 1995
A Darkness in Massachusetts--II, March 14, 1995
A Darkness in Massachusetts--III, May 12, 1995
The Children Behind the Glass, May 15, 1996
A Citizen of Massachusetts, Sept. 11, 1997
'Finality' for the Amiraults, June 30, 1999
The Pursuit of Justice, Continued, Oct. 7, 1999
Cheryl Amirault Is Freed, Oct. 22, 1999
Only in Massachusetts, Dec. 29, 1999
A Juror Has Second Thoughts, May 12, 2000
A Hearing in Boston, Oct. 31, 2000

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