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FREE SPEECH, DAVID RANCK, AND THE BLOG

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

The title of the post link's to Jay Weaver of the Herald's article about ASA David Ranck's lawsuit against the State Attorneys Office- and office he has served so well for over twenty five years. In 2004 Ranck was assigned to a police shooting of an unarmed teenager who was accused of committing a burglary.  Ranck didn't like what he saw and heard and he said so in his memo.  A police Major called the State Attorneys office and asked that Ranck be removed from the case. He wasn't "playing ball." Fully committed to the belief that "we who work here seek only justice" State Attorney Fernandez-Rundle (hereinafter "Fernandle") promptly removed Ranck from the case.  Nixon couldn't have done it any better.  See, Archibald Cox.  When Fernandle removed Ranck from the case, Ranck wrote a memo stating that his removal created the appearance that the State Attorneys Office was not impartial in finding out the facts  of the shooting...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on March 21, 2009 (boomark / email).