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From: jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: The Dotson Case
Message-ID: <526@usl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-May-85 15:27:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 29 15:27:57 1985
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Reply-To: jla@usl.UUCP (Joe Arceneaux)
Organization: University of (SW) Louisiana
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Summary: 

In article <6078@umcp-cs.UUCP> flink@maryland.UUCP (Paul Torek) writes:
>
>The Dotson case was often on p. 1 of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, my local
>paper.  Perhaps the coverage was defective or unbalanced, but it definitely
>was a newsworthy case.  What outrages ME is that IT TOOK WAY TOO LONG FOR 
>THE STATE TO RELEASE DOTSON.  The testimony was apparently the only real 
>evidence against him, and when it was recanted -- Dotson should have been
>released immediately.

I completely agree  with this statement,   if indeed what  I've  heard
about the case was accurately presented.  Seems to  me the problem was
an inflexible judge who couldn't admit to a mistake.

-- 
				    Joe Arceneaux

				    Lafayette, LA
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