Comments on: “I never forgot I was lying” https://www.overlawyered.com/2005/10/i-never-forgot-i-was-lying/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Overlawyered https://www.overlawyered.com/2005/10/i-never-forgot-i-was-lying/comment-page-1/#comment-1469 Fri, 17 Feb 2006 00:35:15 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=2743#comment-1469 Overprosecuted

This is a bit off topic from civil litigation, but Tom Kirkendall, a Houston attorney following the Enron trial, makes the case that the Enron prosecution team or “task force” has been pushing the envelope…

]]> By: Coyote Blog https://www.overlawyered.com/2005/10/i-never-forgot-i-was-lying/comment-page-1/#comment-1468 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 15:03:36 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=2743#comment-1468 “I Never Forgot I Was Lying”

Via Overlawyered, comes this fascinating confession of one of the young accusers in the McMartin pre-school sex abuse prosecutions, one of several witch-hunts from a mercifully brief era of a national day care sex-abuse panic. While certainly abuse occ…

]]> By: Independent Sources https://www.overlawyered.com/2005/10/i-never-forgot-i-was-lying/comment-page-1/#comment-1467 Mon, 31 Oct 2005 01:39:19 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=2743#comment-1467 A “Break” in the McMartin Molestation Case: 20 years too late

Acknowledgement: In the 1980s, I lived near the McMartin Preschool, followed the story daily when it happened, and bought into the “I believe the children” mantra of my neighbors.

Part I: the backstory
In March 1984, the 78-year-old M…

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