Effort revived to free victim of criminal injustice system

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He’s existed in a legal limbo for years now and his supporters are renewing calls to have this unwitting victim of prosecutional railroading set free.

No, we’re not talking about convicted murderer Troy Davis, but about accused child molester Ed Kramer.

You might think that Kramer’s getting caught with a little boy in an out-of-state hotel room would have served to disillusion even his most ardent apologists. Actually, not so much. In fact, the incident has apparently served only to spur a couple of them to revive a moribund blog pithily titled Free Ed.

Here’s how they spin his latest run-in with the law:

The concept of a child living in a motel room that also contains an adult is a reasonably common scenario repeated every week in every state in the US. This probably occurred over a million times on different days and different cities in the US last year alone. And there is nothing criminal about it. Even without supporting statistics, anyone would agree it certainly had happened hundreds of thousands of times.

The reasoning for a child being in a motel room can be the parents and friends being on vacation, a state of homelessness requiring temporary shelter, work conditions away from home, or any of many other reasons, none of which are criminal in the least.

Unfortunately, they seem to have forgotten that the object of their rationalizations was under court order to have no contact with minors, since he’s supposed to be awaiting trial for allegedly molesting three of them.

Sigh. Anyway, given these folks’ chutzpah and logical contortions, I shouldn’t be surprised if they were offered jobs as political analysts on Fox News.