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PRN: Informal Press Release Re: Knox 'Guilty' Plea

 
Siobhan Reynolds; Pain & Social Policy listServ; Pain Relief Network; Issued: 2005-09-03
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See also:
The War on Pain Sufferers Collection #5 – Dr. Cecil Knox and Beverly Boone: Racketeers?
 

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Please take a look at this coverage of Dr. Cecil Knox's deal. Note the fact that none of the charges were the ones originally charged. Note also the prosecutor's gratuitous injection of Oxycontin into the agreement.

One wonders how many millions of taxpayer dollars were squandered on procuring a conviction on "racketeering" that involved a couple of diet pills.

What this reflects is a US Government that has no compunction about using its astonishing power to coerce "confessions" that serve its political ends.

A society that has US prosecutors behaving in this way toward medical practitioners who are responsible for the welfare of hundreds, sometimes thousands of people in a community, is a society whose social fabric is badly torn.

Siobhan

Siobhan Reynolds
Family Member of a Chronic Pain Patient
President: Pain Relief Network
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