Alan C. Posted July 29, 2013 Posted July 29, 2013 Mo. judge fires 34-year court employee for providing document that helped free innocent man A longtime judge's assistant in Jackson County says she was fired for providing a public document that helped a wrongfully convicted inmate win his freedom.But court officials say 70-year-old Sharon Snyder was sent packing four weeks ago because she violated court rules against inappropriately providing advice and discussing court matters with outsiders.Snyder says she gave Robert Nelson's sister a copy of a motion last year from a different case in which a defendant successfully requested DNA testing. Nelson, who was convicted in 1984 of raping a woman and robbing her, previously filed two motions for DNA tests that were denied because they didn't meet technical requirements.Nelson was freed June 12 after DNA tests ruled him out as one of the rapists in the 1983 attack.
DaVinci Posted July 29, 2013 Posted July 29, 2013 I almost had my car repoed last year, but got out of it because the person I called and talked to acted like an actual human being and helped me out. It sucks that doing nice things for your fellow man are rare and in the case of this guy in jail actually looked down on and cost someone their job.
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