Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 30, 2011

New Orleans resident John Thompson was unjustly convicted of armed robbery and murder. The prosecutors responsible for this crime stole 18 years of Thompson?s life, 14 of which were spent in isolation on death row.

At one point Thompson was just a few weeks away from being murdered by way of unjust execution when an attorney who took an interest in his case found critical exculpatory evidence in the form of a blood test that had been deliberately withheld by the prosecutors. This discovery was later buttressed by the deathbed confession of an assistant prosecutor who had taken part in that crime.

Thompson filed a lawsuit for wrongful prosecution and won a $14 million judgment against the DA?s office. That judgment has been overturned by the Supreme Court, whose five conservative members consider it more important to uphold the spurious and malignant doctrine of prosecutorial immunity than to validate the rights of an innocent man ? and punish the criminals who attempted to murder him under the color of law.

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