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Judge Gertner Orders Government to Pay $101.7 Million

By Tom Lincoln

By remaining silent as to their knowledge that a witness was lying, the FBI caused the conviction on murder charges against several defendants, and ensured they spent decades in prison. As the NY Times (AP) reports here: A federal judge Thursday ordered the government to pay more than $101 million in the case of four men who spent decades in prison for a 1965 murder they didn't commit after the FBI withheld evidence of their innocence. The FBI encouraged perjury, helped frame the four men and withheld for more than three decades information that could have cleared them, U.S. District Judge Nancy Gertner said in issuing her ruling Thursday. She called the government's argument that the FBI had no duty to get involved in the state case ''absurd...continue to full post

Full post as published by Puerto Rico Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers on July 26, 2007 (boomark / email).