Today's winner is New London County(CT) State Attorney Michael Regan. He gets the award for the following-
Almost 18 months after a pornography conviction that could have sent her to jail for 40 years was thrown out, former Norwich substitute teacher Julie Amero plead guilty to a single charge of disorderly conduct Friday afternoon.Reducing the charge to a misdemeanor is a joke as was the whole prosecution of Julie Amero. Kevin wrote about this miscarriage of justice over a year ago.The plea deal before Superior Court Judge Robert E. Young in Norwich ends a long-running drama that attracted attention from around the world.
"Oh honey, it's over. I feel wonderful," Amero said a few minutes after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct and agreeing to surrender her teaching license. She had originally been charged with 10 counts of risk of injury to a minor and later convicted on four of them.
"The Norwich police made a mistake. It was proven. That makes me feel like I'm on top of the world."
In June of 2007, Judge Hillary B. Strackbein tossed out Amero's conviction on charges that she intentionally caused a stream of "pop-up" pornography on the computer in her classroom and allowed students to view it.
Confronted with evidence compiled by forensic computer experts, Strackbein ordered a new trial, saying the conviction was based on "erroneous" and "false information."
Friday, New London County State's Attorney Michael Regan said the state was prepared to go to trial again, but because of Amero's ill health agreed to the reduce the felony charges to a single misdemeanor.
I'm not terribly computer literate, but know how vulnerable Windows operating systems are to spyware. Apparently no one at a prosecutor's office knows that or they are just too lazy to find out. In the process an innocent person's life was ruined, and this is why I name New London County(CT) State Attorney Michael Regan today's Knucklehead of the Day.
A comment on conviction of Norwich, Connecticut substitute teacher Julie Amero who faces up to 40 years in prison after being convicted of exposing seventh-grade students to pornographic images on a school PC. Sunbelt Software president Alex Eckelberry has been debunking the prosecutor's case, and has put his money where his mouth is for extra forensic examination. Anyone who's ever seen a good old fashion spyware/malware infested Windows 98 PC knows that this is a real travesty...
Hat tip- Walter at Overlawyered
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Comments (6)
Regan has been running on s... (Below threshold)1. Posted by David | November 24, 2008 1:19 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Regan has been running on stupid for a long time. He has been lectured more than once from the bench as charges are dismissed.
1. Posted by David | November 24, 2008 1:19 PM |
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Posted on November 24, 2008 13:19
2. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | November 24, 2008 2:41 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Any time anyone sees the words "New London" they should be thinking, "Kelo; property theft; plutocracy; enemies of the constitution" and go from there.
2. Posted by Jeff Blogworthy | November 24, 2008 2:41 PM |
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Posted on November 24, 2008 14:41
3. Posted by Jason | November 24, 2008 6:09 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Scary. Makes you wonder if it's ever safe to use computers around kids, especially if it's a public computer and you don't know what's been done with it.
http://rightklik.blogspot.com/
3. Posted by Jason | November 24, 2008 6:09 PM |
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Posted on November 24, 2008 18:09
4. Posted by Timmer | November 24, 2008 6:15 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
For a moment I thought you were calling him a knucklehead for reducing the charges.
Historical note: My family used to own most of New London. They moved on about a century and a half ago...I'm very happy about that right now.
4. Posted by Timmer | November 24, 2008 6:15 PM |
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Posted on November 24, 2008 18:15
5. Posted by DANEgerus | November 24, 2008 6:17 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Yet GLAAD, nationwide, is given specific permission to spread homosexual pornography as 'educational, behind the backs of student's parents. Or... didn't you all know that?
5. Posted by DANEgerus | November 24, 2008 6:17 PM |
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Posted on November 24, 2008 18:17
6. Posted by Beeblebrox | November 24, 2008 8:09 PM | Score: 1 (1 votes cast)
Just one more reason that schools should all be on Macs.
(you knew that was coming :~)
6. Posted by Beeblebrox | November 24, 2008 8:09 PM |
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Posted on November 24, 2008 20:09