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Bob Ray Sanders on the Michael Blair Case

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The Fort Worth Star-Telegram columnist's latest is, "A homicide case with a different kind of victim."  As is so often the case with Bob Ray Sanders, it's a must-read.Michael Blair has admitted to doing terrible things in his life, including sexually assaulting children. For those crimes he is serving three consecutive life sentences. But Blair also has been sentenced to death for murder -- a murder to which he never confessed and one we now know he most likely never committed. In that case, Blair became a victim. From the moment he was a suspect, and throughout the process that led to his guilty verdict, this man had fallen casualty to a rush to judgment, an overwhelming societal pressure to convict someone -- anyone -- for a heinous crime, and a prosecution driven to satisfy a public outcry for "justice" perhaps more than exploring "the truth, the whole truth and nothing but ...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).