Bronx [NYC] resident William Hallowell filed suit in the Southern District yesterday claiming police and prosecutors blundered by wrongfully arresting him for an e-mail he never sent.
See, he's exchanging email with his supervisor, Robin Berson, about a key and she mistypes his edress, sending the mail to the wrong Hallowell, who writes her back message saying he'd "sold the key for 'hookers,' a 'handful' of drugs and a gun [and] also professed his desire for [her] and proposed a sexual liaison in the library."
So she complains against the guy she thought she emailed and he takes the fall. And even if he hadn't been the wrong Hallowell, what's the crime? I can't begin to tell you some of the replies I've seen for the Nigerian 419 scammers. They get a lot more graphic than "I want your sweet body against my skin" (although I may use that line on the next one who offers a wire transfer from his late father the prime minister's account).
And it takes the idiot Bronx prosecutor 4 months to clear it up? I'd ask if they know what that much time with a charge hanging over a man's head does to him, but of course they do. They count on that, to break people down, soften them up to where they just want to get it over with and will plea to enough to make the prosecutor look like a success.
That's why the thugs in power get so enraged and vindictive when they come across someone who will fight them all the way on principle.
How dare you not roll over and die when we demand it?
Oh, looky here: Robin is looking for an intern. Guess she burned out the last one. If interested in the position, go ahead and apply. Also let her know if you found that key.
[Via cycjec]
see comments above about piss poor lawyers as prosecutors.
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