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.
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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