From Chatelle’s article
[…]
>Martha Coakley also joined in an amicus brief that advocates for total immunity for prosecutors in a case of two African American men from Iowa, having spent 25 years of their lives in prison, who’d been appealing their unjust conviction on the grounds they’d been framed by prosecutors for a murder they did not commit. In November, 2009, the case was before the U.S. Supreme Court. Coakley is a firm believer in absolute prosecutorial immunity — an immense obstacle to justice.
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I commented:
Coakley is also one of the State attorneys general who petitioned Congress to gut Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, broadly exempting web hosts from prosecution for content posted by users (There are a handful of reasonable exceptions, eg:on copyright infringement.) Coakley’s game plan would effectively close off Internet comments to all but the wealthy and the well-connected.
http://www.popehat.com/2013/08/05/law-enforcement-wants-to-weaken-section-230-what-could-possibly-go-wrong/

Fells Acres political costs?

The first casualty may have been Scott Harshbarger, Middlesex County (Massachusetts) DA at the time of the Fells Acres prosecutions, in his *narrow* 1998 loss as Democratic challenger to Republican Governor Paul Cellucci. 1998 was otherwise a good year for Democrats in Massachusetts; liberal Democrats disgusted by Fells Acres might well have made the difference.

“I Could Have Sworn … An interview with false-memory expert Elizabeth Loftus.” http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/new_scientist/2013/09/elizabeth_loftus_interview_false_memory_research_on_eyewitnesses_child_abuse.html