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IN CONNECTION TO THIS
CRIME.
TONIGHT A POWERFUL
STATE SENATOR HAS TOLD
10 ON YOUR SIDE HE MET
WITH A WOMAN NOW ACCUSED
OF PERJURY IN SENDING
AN INNOCENT MAN TO
PRISON.
ONE WEEK AGO TODAY A
HAMPTON JUDGE VACATED
JONATHAN
MONTGOMERY'S SENTENCE FOR
A *** ASSAULT AND
ORDERED HIM
TO BE FREED BECAUSE THE
ACCUSER ADMITTED
SHE LIED.
YESTERDAY WE CONFRONTED
ELIZABETH COAST WHO WAS
IN COURT
ON A PERJURY CHARGE. ANDY
FOX JOINS US WITH WHAT
JAMES
CITY COUNTY STATE SENATOR
TOMMY NORMENT IS CALLING
FOR.
SENATOR NORMENT IS
CALLING FOR MERCY.
HE STATES THAT IN THIS
LETTER HE SENT TO THE
STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL.
NORMENT WRITES "I HAVE
EXTREME DISMAY YOUR
POSITION IN THE
PREREQUISITE FOR JONATHAN
MONTGOMERY'S RELEASE.
JONATHAN MONTGOMERY'S
ACCUSER ELIZABETH COAST
WAS REFERRED TO STATE
SENATOR TOMMY NORMENT.
NORMENT IS AN EXPERIENCED
CRIMINAL ATTORNEY AND HE
DISCUSSED DUE TO
ATTORNEY-CLIENT
PRIVILEGE. WHAT WE DO
KNOW SHORTLY AFTER THAT
MEETING (PRODUCTION)
COAST WHO WORKED WITH THE
HAMPTON POLICE DEPARTMENT
CONFESSED TO A DETECTIVE
"THAT
SHE LIED ABOUT A ***
ASSAULT...LIED AT THE
TRIAL...SENT AN
INNOCENT MAN TO JAIL."
DUE TO ATTORNEY-CLIENT
17) ((THAT'S WHAT YOU
TOLD THE DETECTIVE THATS
YOU'VE ADMITTED ALL I
OPPORTUNITIES TO
APOLOGIZE IT WAS CLEAR
NONE WAS COMING.
MONTGOMERY IS STUCK IN
PRISON
UNTIL HE FILES A WRIT OF
STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL
KEN CUCCINELLI
"CONSIDERING THIS CASE
INVOLVES THE WRONGFUL
INCARCERATION OF AN
INNOCENT MAN, I DO NOT
UNDERSTAND THE APPARENTLY
COMMUNICATION RESPONDED
TO THAT
ONE WOULD ASSUME THE
SENATOR - A LAWMAKER AND
AN ATTORNEY - KNOWS THIS
ASSEMBLY, AS HE IS
SUGGESTING. SENATOR
NORMENT DISAGREES AND
THINKS CUCCINELLI
CAN MAKE THINGS HAPPEN
WRITING "THERE ARE
EXIGENT CIRCUMSTANCES
WHICH DICTATE THAT
JUSTICE MUST BE TEMPERED
WITH MERCY. IN THE MEAN
INNOCENT MAN.
MONTGOMERY'S PUBLIC
DEFENDER IS NOW JOINING
FORCES WITH THE
MID-ATLANTIC INNOCENCE
PROJECT TO PREPARE THE
NECESSARY COURT
PAPERS TO GET THE HEARING
BEFORE THE COURT OF
APPEALS.
ONCE THAT IS DONE, I AM
TOLD THERE WILL BE A FAST
TRACK TO GET THE
HEARING BEFORE A THREE
JUDGE PANEL IN RICHMOND
THAT CAN ORDER THE
RELEASE OF JONATHAN
MONTGOMERY.