February 10, 2008 - 02:29 PM IP: 205.188.117.14 concerned from 48 Hours aired a story last night called "Where"s Our Baby"; a case which evolved around the disappearance of a families child. The parents were put through pure hell in this case all because of the shameful work on the part of the police and the prosecutor.
There were lots of examples in this story that reminded me of the injustice against Ferguson. In the Aisenbergs case the police went so far as to alter taped conversations the couple had over the phone to make it look like they said incriminating things that were actaully never said. They were trying to FRAME the parents in this case because they wanted so badly to get them convicted. It is an unbelievable story! What people have to endure and fight against in order to stand for truth and justice.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/06/23/48hours/main703750.shtml
Here are a few quotes taken from the transcript:
Cohen says (this is the lawyer representing the Aisenbergs) there is nothing that points to his clients" guilt, but he says detectives had one mission, to prove the Aisenbergs were involved. "When I saw the police were acting in bad faith and that they were destined to try to frame Marlene and Steve, that’s when we stopped cooperating," says Cohen.
Cohen says he advised his clients not to testify because of the reputation of lead federal prosecutor Steven Kunz: "He"s a disgrace to his profession and the system."
"I think once law enforcement collectively decided that the Aisenbergs were responsible and guilty, then whatever it took to implicate the Aisenbergs and to charge them and to arrest them, that was going to be done," says John Fitzgibbons, a former U.S. attorney now in private practice in Tampa.
The prosecution"s case against the couple began collapsing. Now, it was the feds who had some tough questions to answer. "There is no doubt that law enforcement clearly went past the line from legality into that line of perhaps, illegality," says Fitzgibbons.
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