Jul 01 2009
Deskovic Doubts Sotomayor’s “Empathy”
Jeffrey Deskovic, Freed
According to Bob Unruh, WND, there is a glaring example of lack of empathy in Judge Sotomayor’s history. In 1989, Angela Corea was assaulted, raped and killed. Jeff Deskovic was charged with the crime, and, according to Jeff, was coerced into a confession by police interrogators at the age of 16, even though the crime scene DNA did not match. Somehow the prosecutors convinced the jury that Angela had consensual sex with someone else before the crime.
He was found guilty and sentenced to 15 years in prison. He ran out of state appeals and decided to file for “habeas corpus” in 1997 to the 2nd Court of Appeals, which is Sotomayor’s home base. When Deskovic’s attorney asked when the appeal had to be filed, the court clerk said that they had to be postmarked April 24, 1997. However, that was not correct; they had to be delivered by that date. So, Sotomayor, on a technicality, dismissed the case. Sotomayor and the other appellate judge ruled out any other rehearing.
Deskovic got lucky in 2005 when he started working with the “Innocence Project” and they were able to get permission from the new D.A. to compare the crime scene DNA to the state database and then found the real murderer, Steve Cunningham.
So, if this is Obama’s and Sotomayor’s idea of “empathy”, they may need to be brought up to date. At this time, Jeffrey is hoping that he will be able to testify at Sotomayor’s confirmation hearings. If they had been a little more “empathetic” on a technicality, he may have been release 6 years earlier. It’s beginning to look like, along with the “Ricci case”, Sotomayor’s idea of “empathy” is nothing more than reverse racism.
