This is my favorite quote from Atty Freedman:
“Mr Freedman said: “These are good, family people who have a stellar record – family, employment and community.
“And to have people all of a sudden target them for whatever reason is completely inappropriate.”
Yes, how well I remember that he also assured the public that DA Nifong was “a man just trying to do his job.” If you read Wikipedia’s entry on disbarred DA Nifong you will find that his nefarious tactics did not start with the Lacrosse players. A Durham man spent 20 years in jail before his conviction was overturned...
Mike Nifong - Wikipedia
“In July 2014 there was a call for all the cases Nifong had prosecuted to be reviewed on the basis of his having been shown to ignore due process in some cases including the murder trial against Darryl Howard, who had been convicted in 1995 of a 1991 murder of a woman and her daughter.
[93]
In 2014, Darryl Howard, who at that time had been imprisoned for murder for 20 years, was granted a new trial because Nifong had withheld evidence in the trial that led to his convictions.
[94] Two years later, following a hearing where the state was asked why the convictions should stand, the murder conviction was vacated and Howard released from prison, noting that DNA evidence not presented to the jury would likely have exonerated him.
[95]”
So now we are being told that it is ‘inappropriate’ to ‘target’ this family with the ‘stellar record.’ Has Atty Freedman read “Turning This Thing Around” by Keith Maginn. Does he know how the ‘stellar’ family treated their daughter cycling in and out of bipolar episodes? Who financed her relocation immediately after her hospitalization and let an unsuspecting widower...who was furnished with false information about her credentials...hire her to care for his motherless infants? Didn’t the stellar family have any concern for those babies, much less for their own daughter...who had just required hospitalization? Where was just the paternal love and care to let a bipolar daughter with significant issues travel so very far away and...be left to care for someone’s infant children?
This family is as “stellar” as your former client was “ethical.” When you read these statements keep past practices and statements in mind. Just my humble opinion, as always.