November 1, 2006

Sex predator or wrongly accused?

Law professor David Moran commented in a front-page story about the recent conviction of an Oakland County kindergarten teacher for sexually assaulting two young boys in his school. The Free Press found several discrepancies in the case, including inconsistencies in one of the boy's statements that bring the guilty verdict into question. Doubts about where the crime occurred weakened the case and the prosecutor's credibility, according to Moran. The assistant county prosecutor who handled the case said location of the assaults was irrelevant. But Moran says, "That argument is an insult to the intelligence of the judge. When you prove that it happened in a specific place and new evidence proves that it couldn't have happened there, that not only undermines the location, it undermines whether it happened at all."

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