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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... one regret? Not that she spent spent several hundred thousand dollars prosecuting medical examiner Cyril Wecht for what in the end amounted to charges of spending about four dollars of county money on personal faxes. Not that she put perjurred testimony into evidence and sent Dr. Bernard Rottschaefer to prison for the non-crime of treating people in pain. Not that she wasted taxpayer...
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TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
... in your search for your soul." Another over-the top prosecution (and failure): That of Cyril Wecht .
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DeRosaWorld (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Thirty Days has November... and DeRosaWorld is bringing you a JFK Assassination fact for each day. "Get me one bullet in one case, just one from hundreds of thousands of cases ... that has done this. Nobody has ever produced one." - Cyril Wecht According to the single-bullet theory, a one-inch-long copper-jacketed lead-core 6.5-millimeter rifle bullet fired from the sixth floor of the...
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TPMmuckraker (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
... politically motivated prosecutions against local Democrats, most notoriously in the case of Cyril Wecht, a former county coroner and Pennsylvania Democratic fundraiser, who Buchanan prosecuted for misusing his office for political gain. The jury foreman in Wecht's trial publicly called the case "politically driven," and the charges were ultimately dropped earlier this year....