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re: State Court Bench Loses One of Its Best

Harvey Silverglate — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:56:09 GMT

(1) Judge Borenstein's 1998 opinion voiding Cheryl Amirault LeFave's 1987 conviction has been on-line at URL

www.cyberussr.com/.../bd-cont.html

(2) The need to put children through college also forced Cheryl's original trial judge John Paul Sullivan to retire to private practice in 1995. Although originally convinced (like his jury) of the Amiraults' guilt, Judge Sullivan changed his mind when new research in the early 1990s showing how techniques like those used by the Fells Acres prosecution can brainwash young children with false memories. He tried to commute Cheryl's up-to-20-year sentence to time served, but was overruled by the SJC.