23-year-old Sandra Birchmore, who was allegedly groomed and sexually assaulted by three former Stoughton police officers for nearly a decade, according to a wrongful death suit filed in 2022, was found dead in her Canton apartment on Feb. 4, 2021. [More]
Just reading this one account and not knowing anything else about the case, I see how lynch mob mentalities are formed. I had to take a deep breath and think “due process” to myself a couple times.
[Via Edmund M]
Wrongful death is a civil suit. In Massachusetts, it must be filed within three years of the date of death.
First degree murder is a criminal case, filed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Given the notoriety of the Karen Read trial currently being tried in Norfolk County (the location of both Canton and Stoughton) in Massachusetts, it will be interesting to see whether a potential death by a police officer outside the scope of his employment will be treated with the same intensity as the death of a police officer outside the scope of his employment.
These days the only “due process” available to most Americans is a bullet. The “legal” system is irredeemably, irretrievably corrupt. Expecting it to provide justice is insanity.