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Attorney Sam?s Take: Wrongfully Convicted In Massachusetts? Reality Check In Murder And Assault Cases

By Altman & Altman

The website Boston.Com has a story that is probably meant to give us a feeling of justice. It concerns one Kenneth Waters. Mr. Waters spent more than 18 years in prison after being convicted of murder. There, he passed through all of the ?safeguards? that we have put in place, namely appeals, as the world around him passed him by. Finally, he got DNA that was at the scene tested. Between that and other newly discovered evidence, he was exonerated. The town of Ayer, who had brought the charges and investigated the crime in the first place had now agreed to pay $3.4 million to settle the civil rights lawsuit on Mr. Water?s behalf, Attorney Barry Scheck of the Innocence Project announced yesterday. Of course, it is not likely to do Mr. Waters too much good; he is dead...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on July 16, 2009 (boomark / email).