Comments on: Meet Carmen Ortiz http://www.mainjustice.com/2009/10/02/meet-carmen-ortiz/ Politics, policy and the law at the U.S. Department of Justice Wed, 08 Feb 2012 22:26:30 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Morrison Bonpasse http://www.mainjustice.com/2009/10/02/meet-carmen-ortiz/comment-page-1/#comment-637 Morrison Bonpasse Tue, 13 Oct 2009 22:01:08 +0000 http://www.mainjustice.com/?p=9423#comment-637 One of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz's major challenges will be to bring justice to the Roslindale Bomb cases, in which two innocent men were wrongfully convicted in U.S. District Court in 1993. Alfred W. Trenkler and Thomas A. Shay had absolutely no involvement whatsoever with the bomb that tragically killed Boston Police Officer Jeremiah Hurley, Jr. on 28 October 1991. For more information see the website, www.alfredtrenklerinnocent.org, and the 727 page manuscript there for the book, "Perfectly Innocent". Five of Alfred Trenkler's jurors have written to the trial judge, Hon. Rya Zobel, to disavow their 1993 verdict. Four of them had read "Perfectly Innocent" and the fifth wrote his letter after reading about the letters from the first three jurors in a front page article in the Boston Globe. Alfred Trenkler had no motive to harm, let alone kill, the father of his co-defendant, Thomas A. Shay, and he hadn't seen Shay for two months before the bomb exploded. Alfred Trenkler was an entrepreneur, albeit unconventional, with tens of thousands of dollars in contracts for microwave antenna installation and no debt. He had no need to kill an autobody mechanic for a share of a lost-cause lawsuit verdict. He co-defendant, Thomas A.Shay, loved his father, and had no interest in the lawsuit, which arose from, ironically, a firecracker explosion which hurt his ear as much as his father's. The Office of the U.S. Attorney prosecuted this case in 1992-93 in the hope of assisting the City of Boston with an infamous case. Unfortunately, the prosecutors relied upon incorrect assumptions and upon an unreliable inmate informant. Alfred Trenkler is "perfectly innocent" and has waited 17 years for justice. Hopefully, Ms. Carmen Ortiz will help bring that justice, by opening a re-investigation of the case and seeking the truth. Attorney General Eric Holder several new Assistant U.S. Attorneys in April according to an Associated Press article: Holder told assistant US attorneys for the District of Columbia that they must respond to negative perceptions of federal prosecutors by doing "the right thing." "Your job as assistant US attorneys is not to convict people," Holder said. "Your job is not to win cases. Your job is to do justice. Your job is in every case, every decision that you make, to do the right thing. Anybody who asks you to do something other than that is to be ignored. Any policy that is at tension with that is to be questioned and brought to my attention. And I mean that." Hopefully, Ms. Ortiz's handling of the Roslindale Bomb case will meet those high standards. Morrison Bonpasse Newcastle, ME [If interested in this case, please contact me at morrison (at) Alfred's website.] One of U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz’s major challenges will be to bring justice to the Roslindale Bomb cases, in which two innocent men were wrongfully convicted in U.S. District Court in 1993.
Alfred W. Trenkler and Thomas A. Shay had absolutely no involvement whatsoever with the bomb that tragically killed Boston Police Officer Jeremiah Hurley, Jr. on 28 October 1991.
For more information see the website, http://www.alfredtrenklerinnocent.org, and the 727 page manuscript there for the book, “Perfectly Innocent”.
Five of Alfred Trenkler’s jurors have written to the trial judge, Hon. Rya Zobel, to disavow their 1993 verdict. Four of them had read “Perfectly Innocent” and the fifth wrote his letter after reading about the letters from the first three jurors in a front page article in the Boston Globe.
Alfred Trenkler had no motive to harm, let alone kill, the father of his co-defendant, Thomas A. Shay, and he hadn’t seen Shay for two months before the bomb exploded. Alfred Trenkler was an entrepreneur, albeit unconventional, with tens of thousands of dollars in contracts for microwave antenna installation and no debt. He had no need to kill an autobody mechanic for a share of a lost-cause lawsuit verdict. He co-defendant, Thomas A.Shay, loved his father, and had no interest in the lawsuit, which arose from, ironically, a firecracker explosion which hurt his ear as much as his father’s.
The Office of the U.S. Attorney prosecuted this case in 1992-93 in the hope of assisting the City of Boston with an infamous case. Unfortunately, the prosecutors relied upon incorrect assumptions and upon an unreliable inmate informant.
Alfred Trenkler is “perfectly innocent” and has waited 17 years for justice. Hopefully, Ms. Carmen Ortiz will help bring that justice, by opening a re-investigation of the case and seeking the truth. Attorney General Eric Holder several new Assistant U.S. Attorneys in April according to an Associated Press article:

Holder told assistant US attorneys for the District of Columbia that they must respond to negative perceptions of federal prosecutors by doing “the right thing.”

“Your job as assistant US attorneys is not to convict people,” Holder said. “Your job is not to win cases. Your job is to do justice. Your job is in every case, every decision that you make, to do the right thing. Anybody who asks you to do something other than that is to be ignored. Any policy that is at tension with that is to be questioned and brought to my
attention. And I mean that.”

Hopefully, Ms. Ortiz’s handling of the Roslindale Bomb case will meet those high standards.
Morrison Bonpasse
Newcastle, ME

[If interested in this case, please contact me at morrison (at) Alfred's website.]

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