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'Paying No Heed to What's Right or Wrong'

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That's the title of an article in today's Chicago Sun-Times by Maurice Possley about the-Illinois AG Roland Burris' involvement in the case of Rolando Cruz, later exonerated of a crime that sent him to death row.  Burris has been named to fill Barack Obama's seat in the U.S. Senate.  LINKRoland Burris should walk away from Barack Obama's Senate seat, according to an attorney who resigned from handling criminal appeals when Roland Burris was state attorney general after he ignored her plea that he was prosecuting an innocent man. In 1992, Mary Brigid Kenney resigned because Burris refused to listen to her concerns that the office should back off from prosecuting the appeal of Rolando Cruz for the 1983 abduction, rape and murder of 10-year-old Jeanine Nicarico in DuPage County...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on January 07, 2009 (boomark / email).