Dawn and I were married days after and recently celebrated our first anniversary.  America has selected Democratic and Republican nominees after what many feel has been the longest primary ever.  Floods across the MidWest and a record year for tornadoes have revealed tales of terror and highlighted acts of tremendous courage.  The widely discussed "Surge" in Iraq has come and now begins to ebb.

But for Julie Amero Volle and her husband, Wes, little has changed.  380 days after her conviction was overturned, the State of Connecticut has still failed to drop the erroneous charges against her.   Julie still lives under the cloud of looming prosecution, and continues to suffer health and employment problems due to the stress.

Marking the anniversary of the Superior Court Decision, Rick Green writes:

There is no indication that state investigators are taking another look at the now discredited work done by the Norwich Police Department, which concluded that Amero was responsible for the storm of porn pop-up messages that took over her classroom computer on Oct. 19, 2004.

And the state's attorney can't be bothered

Michael Regan, state's attorney for the New London district, reminded me that there is a backlog of serious criminal cases in southeastern Connecticut. The Amero case "is not a high priority for us. We have other cases down here that are much more important."

And while Connecticut continues to suffer worldwide ridicule for their performance in this case, Julie Amero still lives with this tremendous weigh upon her shoulders.

I'll let the editorial in today's Hartford Courant close this article

By burying her case in paperwork, delaying decisions and denying her justice, prosecutors are treating Ms. Amero almost as if she were a Guantanamo detainee. It's past time to end the agony.

 

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