Prosecutors Who Live in Glass Houses December 23, 2008

by Will

Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

December 23, 2008

In July 2007 we reviewed the case of Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison we reviewed the case of Cory Mashburn and Ryan Cornelison, two 13-year-old Oregon boys who were prosecuted for a middle school prank in which they swatted girls on the rear end.

Cory and Ryan were arrested, incarcerated, dragged before a judge in prison clothes, publicly humiliated, and threatened with lifetime designation a sex offenders if convicted of the charges.

People across the country donated tens of thousands of dollars for Cory and Ryan's defense. The charges were eventually dismissed after it was learned that the supposed victims had been pressured to make false statements.

An interesting coda to this story was written last November, when Debra Markham, the deputy District Attorney who prosecuted Cory and Ryan, was arrested and charged with assaulting her husband.

Both suborning perjury and beating a spouse are a far graver offenses than playfully swatting a classmate on the bottom.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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