Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

June 17, 2009

Vice President Joe Biden recently told representatives of police organizations that because of Sonia Sotomayor?s ?life-long commitment to law enforcement? they could be confident that she ?has your back[.]?

Sotomayor?s preferential treatment of law enforcement has led to miscarriages of justice.

Jeffery Deskovic spent 16 years ? nearly half his life ? in prison after being wrongfully convicted of rape and murder. Through abusive behavior, police extracted a false confession. The medical examiner fabricated evidence. The prosecutor was aware of all this and proceeded with the case anyway.

Deskovic filed a habeas corpus petition that missed a deadline by four days because of a clerical error. As an appellate judge Sotomayor had the discretion to waive the deadline but chose not to. Shortly thereafter the real perpetrator?s DNA was found in a database, and Deskovic was free. But Satamayor would have been content to let him stay innocently imprisoned for life.

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