Martha Coakley is morally unfit to be in the Senate ( altho she perhaps fits the spirit of Chappaquiddick )

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Coakley: Reward The Guilty, Punish The Innocent
Martha Coakley isn’t just a lousy US Senate candidate. She’s a crummy AG, too.... Rewarding guilty people and law breakers is unjust. Punishing the innocent is even worse. Coakley has a lousy track record on both.First there are the guilty who have benefitted from Coakley’s policies....Are you a politically-connected cop guilty of raping a 23-month old girl with a curling iron? Coakley won’t even ask the judge to make you pay bail.****The guy subsequently got two life sentences but Coakley let him walk until sentencing.****...And if you’re innocent? As Dorothy Rabinowitz points out in painful detail in today’s WSJ, Coakley fought to keep an innocent man in jail for years, long after Coakley knew he was innocent....Does Martha really like punishing innocent people? I don’t think so. I think she just doesn’t care...
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Martha Coakley's Convictions The role played by the U.S. Senate candidate in a notorious sex case raises questions about her judgment. or Ethics.By DOROTHY RABINOWITZ
The story of the Amiraults of Massachusetts, and of the prosecution that had turned the lives of this thriving American family to dust, was well known to the world by the year 2001. It was well known, especially, to District Attorney Martha Coakley, who had by then arrived to take a final, conspicuous, role in a case so notorious as to assure that the Amiraults' name would be known around the globe...****Long after it was clear to all and sundry that a terrible miscarriage of justice had occurred in the case against all the Amiraults, Coakley continued a vendetta against the remaining Amirault, Gerald.****...Before agreeing to revise Cheryl's sentence to time served, Ms. Coakley asked the Amiraults' attorney, James Sultan, to pledge—in exchange—that he would stop representing Gerald and undertake no further legal action on his behalf. She had evidently concluded that with Sultan gone—Sultan, whose mastery of the case was complete—any further effort by Gerald to win freedom would be doomed. Mr. Sultan, of course, refused.
***It is mind-boggling that a prosecutor would try to deny a defendant his right to counsel.*** In 2000, the Massachusetts Governor's Board of Pardons and Paroles met to consider a commutation of Gerald's sentence. After nine months of investigation, the board, reputed to be the toughest in the country, voted 5-0, with one abstention, to commute his sentence. Still more newsworthy was an added statement, signed by a majority of the board, which pointed to the lack of evidence against the Amiraults, and the "extraordinary if not bizarre allegations" on which they had been convicted.Editorials in every major and minor paper in the state applauded the Board's findings. District Attorney Coakley was not idle either, and quickly set about organizing the parents and children in the case, bringing them to meetings with Acting Gov. Jane Swift, to persuade her to reject the board's ruling. Ms. Coakley also worked the press, setting up a special interview so that the now adult accusers could tell reporters, once more, of the tortures they had suffered at the hands of the Amiraults, and of their panic at the prospect of Gerald going free. On Feb. 20, 2002, six months after the Board of Pardons issued its findings, the governor denied Gerald's commutation.Gerald Amirault spent nearly two years more in prison before being granted parole in 2004. ....Attorney General Martha Coakley—who had proven so dedicated a representative of the system that had brought the Amirault family to ruin, and who had fought so relentlessly to preserve their case—has recently expressed her view of this episode. Questioned about the Amiraults in the course of her current race for the U.S. Senate, she told reporters of her firm belief that the evidence against the Amiraults was "formidable" and that she was entirely convinced "those children were abused at day care center by the three defendants."
What does this say about her candidacy? (Ms. Coakley declined to be interviewed.) If the current attorney general of Massachusetts actually believes, as no serious citizen does, the preposterous charges that caused the Amiraults to be thrown into prison—the butcher knife rape with no blood, the public tree-tying episode, the mutilated squirrel and the rest—that is powerful testimony to the mind and capacities of this aspirant to a Senate seat. It is little short of wonderful to hear now of Ms. Coakley's concern for the rights of terror suspects at Guantanamo—her urgent call for the protection of the right to the presumption of innocence. If the sound of ghostly laughter is heard in Massachusetts these days as this campaign rolls on, with Martha Coakley self-portrayed as the guardian of justice and civil liberties, there is good reason.
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Martha Coakley, Witch Hunter Attorney General by Ashley Herzog ****Coakley made a career out of prosecuting phantom molesters and Gerald Amirault was part of her need to maintain the fiction that she was doing good.****