Judge Sonia Sotomayor is wrongly being sold by Team Obama as an "empathetic nominee." This adjective is shown a farce when one examines her record in two noteworthy cases, involving Jeffrey Deskovic and Frank Ricci. In these instances, she was callous and indifferent to the injustice and suffering of these men.
As a 17-year-old young man, Deskovic was convicted for the murder and rape of a classmate, despite a negative DNA test. He ended up serving 16 years in prison before he was ultimately exonerated after additional DNA evidence proved another man was guilty. A good portion of his life was taken away by a justice system with Sotomayor playing judge.
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