Post by Site Admin on Jul 10, 2006 8:31:44 GMT -5
Prosecutors in the Gaughan Case in Marengo, IL
This is some of the stuff that prosecutors in the Gaughan case had to say:”We are concluding that we are still going ahead with the trial,” Lou Bianchi said, McHenry County State’s Attorney.
“It shows, obviously, what I knew it would,” Crawford said Friday, about the State’s Police report which clears him of wrongdoing.
However, Lou Bianchi would not release the document, saying that it would be unethical. Unethical!?
How about this? Is this State Police investigation ethical?
marengogazette.blogspot.com/
Is hitting and yelling at an 18 year old to make him drop a complaint against a police officer instead of investigating the officer in question ethical?
Is arresting people who filed a complaint “for filing a false complaint” by knocking down their doors and holding guns to their heads while yelling at them ethical?
How about ignoring the 23 witnesses that the Gaughans have? Is that ethical? Oh, wait, they claim they did not know about the witnesses and after that it was too late to investigate. But that, in fact, isn’t true. Brian Gaughan Sr., the boys’ father, told the police, prosecutors, and whoever would listen about the 23 witnesses right from the beginning and urged them to investigate. This was not done.
Why are they continuing to go ahead with the trial despite abundant evidence that both of the Gaughans are innocent and Crawford is at fault? Well, it’s a little too late to say that they made a mistake after prosecuting the Gaughans for almost two years, isn’t it? It will make Lou Bianchi, Nichole Owens, and the others look bad. It will make them seem responsible should they be named in the Gaughans’ multi-million dollar lawsuit. Instead, they are hoping that the Gaughans will go broke while fighting these charges and this is why they make false statements like the ones above to the local papers.
Marengo, IL
June 26, 2006
This is some of the stuff that prosecutors in the Gaughan case had to say:”We are concluding that we are still going ahead with the trial,” Lou Bianchi said, McHenry County State’s Attorney.
“It shows, obviously, what I knew it would,” Crawford said Friday, about the State’s Police report which clears him of wrongdoing.
However, Lou Bianchi would not release the document, saying that it would be unethical. Unethical!?
How about this? Is this State Police investigation ethical?
marengogazette.blogspot.com/
Is hitting and yelling at an 18 year old to make him drop a complaint against a police officer instead of investigating the officer in question ethical?
Is arresting people who filed a complaint “for filing a false complaint” by knocking down their doors and holding guns to their heads while yelling at them ethical?
How about ignoring the 23 witnesses that the Gaughans have? Is that ethical? Oh, wait, they claim they did not know about the witnesses and after that it was too late to investigate. But that, in fact, isn’t true. Brian Gaughan Sr., the boys’ father, told the police, prosecutors, and whoever would listen about the 23 witnesses right from the beginning and urged them to investigate. This was not done.
Why are they continuing to go ahead with the trial despite abundant evidence that both of the Gaughans are innocent and Crawford is at fault? Well, it’s a little too late to say that they made a mistake after prosecuting the Gaughans for almost two years, isn’t it? It will make Lou Bianchi, Nichole Owens, and the others look bad. It will make them seem responsible should they be named in the Gaughans’ multi-million dollar lawsuit. Instead, they are hoping that the Gaughans will go broke while fighting these charges and this is why they make false statements like the ones above to the local papers.
Marengo, IL
June 26, 2006