quinta-feira, 11 de novembro de 2004

Antes tarde do que nunca

A murder charge against Louis Greco was finally dismissed by Massachusetts authorities 9 years after he died in prison. According to the Associated Press, in 2000, a Justice Department task force uncovered secret F.B.I. memoranda showing that Mr. Greco and three co-defendants, Peter J. Limone, Joseph Salvati, and Edward Tameleo, had been wrongly convicted of a murder that occurred in 1965 based on perjured testimony. (Limone had been sentenced to death, but was later released and exonerated in 2001. Tameleo also died in prison.) The F.B.I.'s relationship with mob informers has been the subject of a Congressional inquiry. In September 2004, a federal judge allowed a suit filed by Limone, Salvati and Greco's family for malicious prosecution and wrongful imprisonment to go forward. In exonerating Greco, assistant district attorney, Mark Lee, of Suffolk County said: "It appears that justice may not have been done." (N.Y. Times, Nov. 5, 2004). Limone was spared execution when Massachusetts abolished the death penalty in 1974.

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