In the morning paper, I read an article regarding a horrendous crime perpetrated by the Maryland police against a young man, 16 years old at the time, who was arrested for the murder of a neighbor. On a tip from a journalist who, while trying to interview him about the murder, saw him with blood on his hands (he had cut himself accidentally in his own basement), he was arrested, held incommunicado for days without a lawyer, lied to by the police, had suggestions put to him until he finally confessed to the crime. He is apparantly not wrapped too tight, having "learning disabilties". He was 6 months in jail when the police finally learned in a routine fashion that there was no blood at the murder scene which matched by DNA testing the blood of the young suspect. They then turned their attention to another suspect, found that his DNA matched blood at the scene; the other suspect confessed, pleaded guilty at his trial and went to prison. The young man was finally set free. He claims he was also stabbed and raped in jail. Now 19, he is suing for $18 million and deserves to get every penny, as there is documentary evidence which tends to show that the police were hell-bent on convicting him with no evidence other than his own confession, while virtually ignoring all other lines of inquiry.

To compound this criminality, and what shows to me the mindset of these nazis, a State Police superintendent, responding to reporters' request for comments, stated that the "incident" was "regretful" and he was "glad [the young man] was excluded from the finality of the case". Shades of George Orwell!