Prosecutor as Persecutor January 18 2010
by Will
Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute
January 18 2010
As District Attorney for Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Martha Coakley ? now the state?s attorney general and Democratic senate candidate ? prolonged the patently unjust imprisonment of Gerald Amirault, an innocent man wrongfully convicted of child abuse and sentenced to decades in prison.
The unjust conviction of Gerald Amirault, his mother Violet, and sister Cheryl, is among the most notorious miscarriages of justice in American history. The trio was convicted of grotesque child abuse charges in the absence of a particle of material evidence.
Judicial hearings in the mid-1990s overturned the convictions of Violet and Cheryl due to extensive subornation of false testimony from children by Coakley?s former boss.
Violet Amirault died of cancer in 1997 while threatened with another prosecution. Coakley dropped the charges against Cheryl but campaigned with then-Governor Jane Swift to deny parole to Gerald. Five years later Gerald won parole but today he remains under a form of house arrest.
Coakley is typical of those willing to build political careers atop the broken lives of innocent people.
Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.