Coakley And The Amirault Case

A reader writes:

A few independent posts on your blog today highlight an interesting comparison--Brown's support of torture vs. Coakley being "far to the right" of Kennedy on criminal justice.

Let me suggest that if you view torture as an unacceptable human rights violation, you should be mortified by Coakley.  The blurb you excerpt from Radley Balko's piece didn't address the most troubling case from Coakley's career---the Amirault case.  Any prosecutor that would continue to press the Amirault case in light of what was known when Coakley took it over is a bigger threat to human rights than Scott Brown.  And I would seriously question the commitment to human rights of anyone who didn't feel the same way.

If you're wondering how Coakley truly feels about the rights of terror suspects from across the globe, you might want to look at how she felt about the rights of the accused when it came to people living in her own county.

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