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In reply to the discussion: Anyone who thinks an adult telling about being molested as a child is a liar -- [View all]pnwmom
(110,324 posts)violated the ethics code. And whether or not the prosecutor should have said, he did have evidence. It wasn't just the child's word.
Everyone will have to make up their own minds as to who seems more credible, because there will never be a trial, just as in most child molestation cases.
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In November, the Connecticut Criminal Justice Commission voted unanimously to dismiss Allen's complaint against Maco. It said that after four hours of deliberation it could find no evidence that Prosecutor Maco had violated the canon of ethics for lawyers in his remarks during the September news conference in which he announced that he was dropping the charges against Allen. In January 1994, the Connecticut bar's disciplinary panel criticized Maco's handling of the case and found that he might have prejudiced the celebrities' custody battle, but that he did not violate the state's code of conduct for lawyers.