A real problem is that people the system dismisses as being "nuts" sometimes have a real complaint and that complaint is ignored because of the way it is delivered. It is easy to see why the mother of someone wrongfully convicted would be assertive; it is also easy to see how she would be dismissed as "just another crazy".
Judge calls Milgaard mother's campaign 'counter-productive' to freeing her son
SASKATOON — The judge who spent years sifting through evidence in David Milgaard's wrongful murder conviction has found no professional misconduct by police or prosecutors.
Justice Edward MacCallum also says an aggressive, decades-long campaign by Milgaard's mother, Joyce, that suggested wrongdoing by investigators was "counter-productive" to freeing her son.
It was Joyce Milgaard's practice to "attack indiscriminately anyone who had a part in her son's conviction," MacCallum wrote in his 800-page report released Friday.
"There was no evidence of a frame or coverup, but the allegations attracted national and international media attention."
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