What's taking the governor so long?
The detailed report about the killing of Michael Gough in Baltimore in 1983 and the clemency plea for Mark Farley Grant, the man convicted of the crime, needs to be required summer reading of Gov. Martin O'Malley. Why his office has not acted after having the Innocence Project report on the matter for more than a year is a larger-by-the-day question. Though an O'Malley spokesman said in a terse email two weeks ago that the Grant clemency plea is "under review," anyone who took the time to read this report would have seen the need for quick attention.
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I have a friend serving life at NBCI for a crime he did not comit. Whatever happend to basing the verdict on just the facts?? A lie is so much better then the truth. Officers of the law , prosecutor can twist the truth into a lie where all benifit but the poor soul the are framing. A jail house snitch and a narsacistic wife hung him before the trial began.
Scary part is that it could happen to any one of us.
Posted by: Lisa Richards | August 2, 2009 10:50 AM