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To: one_less who wrote (2444)10/8/2006 11:38:32 PM
From: Peter Dierks  Respond to of 10087
 
You cannot restore 21 years. Freedom must taste particularly sweet to him today. Will the time behind bars make it too much more difficult for him to cope in society?



To: one_less who wrote (2444)10/9/2006 12:04:04 PM
From: TimF  Respond to of 10087
 
Justice failed in his case. Its good that it didn't continue to fail, but as Peter said you can't restore those 21 years.

It seems to me that Mr Fappiano didn't have a very good lawyer. -

"though he was five inches shorter than the man she said had attacked her and had shorter hair.

But the woman’s husband did not identify Mr. Fappiano out of the lineup. Though investigators retrieved nearly a dozen pieces of physical evidence of the crime -- including cigarettes the rapist had smoked, vaginal swabs from a rape kit and semen stains on a towel and on a pair of sweat pants the victim put on after the attack-- blood tests failed to link any of it to Mr. Fappiano."