Just in from Connecticut.  Sentencing for Julie Amero has once again been postponed.  Originally set for March 2nd, it was postponed until this Thursday, March 29th.   It's now been bumped to April 26th.

This is good news for just about everybody.   But Julie Amero is still living in suspense as to what her fate will be.  I just hope that she, being closer to the case than I, can see reasons for being more optimistic.

The publicity and work y'all are doing is really helping out.  According to Rick Green's story from the Hartford Courant, prosecutor David Smith menaced Julie saying "you are going to spend 18 years in jail".    With all of the pressure generated by you the readers and the press, his recent hints were still for jail time, but substantially less.   While in some ways, the internet was responsible for getting Julie Amero into this mess, it's definitely the Internet (read y'all) that is coming to her rescue by coordinating resources and stirring up outrage around the world.  

According to the Hartford Courant, a new State's Attorney is working on the case.  We don't know yet if the malicious prosecutor David Smith is still involved or not.  Whispers are that the State of Connecticut is trying to find the easiest way out of the jam they've gotten themselves into, without too many getting fired (and sued).  

Hartford Courant: Norwich Teacher’s Sentencing Delayed

Hey Folks, it's easy!  Drop the charges, pay a substantial, but not enormous penalty to Julie and her family and get back to prosecuting real criminals.   Any further delay just costs the State of Connecticut more money, and increases the ultimate penalty they will have to pay.

 

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