PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "There is deep pain, loss and grief arising from this sickening and unnecessarily prolonged miscarriage of justice. Derek will articulate his feelings in his own time, and I will resist attempting to translate them ahead of his time. Fortunately, he has had other things to occupy his body and mind; taking every opportunity to prepare himself for release. He's calm. He will be uncontactable and working at his job next Wednesday, so how and when he will become aware of the decision is anyone's guess at the moment as I am not permitted to contact him from outside."
POST: "Update #17, 10 December 2023," published by 'Bringing Justice' on December 10, 2023.
GIST: "We didn't expect it would take this long, however, anything with the Bromley factor seems to be obliged to take a long time. And, as that precious time ticked away, our intellects got busy explaining the long pregnant pause, but ultimately it requires surrender and acceptance - not to be mistaken for despair. There is deep pain, loss and grief arising from this sickening and unnecessarily prolonged miscarriage of justice. Derek will articulate his feelings in his own time, and I will resist attempting to translate them ahead of his time.
Fortunately, he has had other things to occupy his body and mind; taking every opportunity to prepare himself for release. He's calm. He will be uncontactable and working at his job next Wednesday, so how and when he will become aware of the decision is anyone's guess at the moment as I am not permitted to contact him from outside.
Thank you
Thank you to all those who've already responded to my messages and social media posts (timid as they are in this season), and asked me to pass on comments and well-wishes to him. One day he'll explain, in his own words, how appreciated and significant, even the briefest expressions of support, have meant to him.
Folks have been so very thoughtful, inquiring how I'm feeling too. It is tricky to describe, but in reply to one close friend, I think I almost nailed it:
"The emotion is pleasantly, disruptively non-descript - not quite dazed. (I'm much more familiar with subdued expectations). I'm not sure that there is a single word for it but 'faith is the substance of things hoped for, the essence/evidence of things as yet unseen'. Faith is the experience, and, I'm a little nervous at the same time."
I know it to be Derek's sentiment, that God has had his hand on this since the beginning, and I agree.
The official summary of the judgment will be posted on the High Court website by Wednesday evening and the full judgment shortly after."
The entire post can be read at:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/FMfcgzGwHzCfzwXDkJNxCpbcVzRLxGbb
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;
SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG, AT THE LINK BELOW: HL
https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/47049136857587929
FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices.
Lawyer Radha Natarajan;
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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YET ANOTHER FINAL WORD:
David Hammond, one of Broadwater’s attorneys who sought his exoneration, told the Syracuse Post-Standard, “Sprinkle some junk science onto a faulty identification, and it’s the perfect recipe for a wrongful conviction.
