It’s almost like sanity has returned to the earth.  Massachusetts District Court Judge (and former star defense lawyer, but let’s keep that between us) Nancy Gertner has ordered the government to pay $100 Million to compensate four men for their unjust conviction and more than 3 decades in prison for the 1965 murder of Edwin “Teddy” Deegan.  

How did this happen.  Well, you think the lying snitches and government’s cover-up of their lies might have had something to do with it.  Do you think the FBI agents who decided that these four guys were acceptable “collateral damage” in the war on…whatever the war was on way back then, slept well at night?

And what does our United States Government, those defenders and protectors of truth and justice around the world, have to say about it all now?

[C]counsel for the Justice Department contended that federal authorities did not have a duty to share information with state prosecutors, and argued that the federal government isn’t responsible for what happens in a state prosecution.

Smells like a conspiracy to me.  You?  And before I forget, thank god for Judges like Nancy Gertner.  I’m sure it will be reversed under the Reverse Silver Platter Doctrine or some other similar arcane rule that was intended to stop the government but ended up only being used against citizens.  But for a short time, it seems like all is right with the world.

This was also reported by Grits for Breakfast, but Scott may not have been able to fully appreciate Nancy Gertner if he never had a drink with her at an NACLD convention before she became a woman in black.  Judge Gertner is obviously smarter than most, but she’s got more guts than any man I know.