WA: medieval ordeal in Ephrata
Professor Turley pays a visit to my favorite old-timey Washington county:
Grant County in Washington has settled an exceptionally disturbing case involving false allegations of child abuse, allegedly ineffective representation by a public defender (later disbarred), and the holding of an innocent man for seven months after allegations were disproved. The $250,000 with Felipe Vargas seems quite modest given the abuse that he encountered in Grant County, which seems to maintain a criminal justice system on a model from the Thirteenth Century...
Profe hasn't kept up with all the changes; Grant County's in at least the Nineteenth Century by now.
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In WA state? No surprise there. Who can forget the shame of the infamous Witch Hunt in Wenatchee? As they say, Washington is the Golden Rule state - those who have the gold make the rules.
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