File this one under the least surprising news of the day.
There will be a press conference later today at which Tahmir Craig will announce he is filing a lawsuit against Delaware County.
Craig is the Chester man who was wrongly arrested and spent 10 months in Delaware County Prison for a murder he did not commit.
An examination of the case by FBI experts determined that the person responsible for killing Devon Williams on a Chester street last May had to be six inches taller than Craig.
County District Attorney Jack Whelan announced two weeks ago that he was withdrawing all charges against Craig.
Today the other shoe drops, with Craig expected to hold a press conference at his lawyer's offices to announce the lawsuit against the county, the city of Chester and detectives involved in the investigation.
Craig's attorney and Whelan are not exactly on the same page on this one.
"We believe this was an egregious failure to investigate this incident," said Craig's attorney Joseph Oxman.
Whelan said there was probably cause for the arrest.
I wonder what it must be like to spend 10 months in jail for something you did not do. At what point do you stop screaming that you didn't do it?
I admired the way Craig handled the incident when he was freed. I actually said so on our editorial page. But the filing of the lawsuit was not unexpected. Craig admitted he likely would sue back when he was freed.
I can't say I blame him, but there's a part of me that wishes he hadn't. Then again, I'm not the one who spent 10 months in Delco Prison.
Now it will wind up in court. Ironically, where Craig would have wound up anyhow had his case gone to trial.
Craig is the Chester man who was wrongly arrested and spent 10 months in Delaware County Prison for a murder he did not commit.
An examination of the case by FBI experts determined that the person responsible for killing Devon Williams on a Chester street last May had to be six inches taller than Craig.
County District Attorney Jack Whelan announced two weeks ago that he was withdrawing all charges against Craig.
Today the other shoe drops, with Craig expected to hold a press conference at his lawyer's offices to announce the lawsuit against the county, the city of Chester and detectives involved in the investigation.
Craig's attorney and Whelan are not exactly on the same page on this one.
"We believe this was an egregious failure to investigate this incident," said Craig's attorney Joseph Oxman.
Whelan said there was probably cause for the arrest.
I wonder what it must be like to spend 10 months in jail for something you did not do. At what point do you stop screaming that you didn't do it?
I admired the way Craig handled the incident when he was freed. I actually said so on our editorial page. But the filing of the lawsuit was not unexpected. Craig admitted he likely would sue back when he was freed.
I can't say I blame him, but there's a part of me that wishes he hadn't. Then again, I'm not the one who spent 10 months in Delco Prison.
Now it will wind up in court. Ironically, where Craig would have wound up anyhow had his case gone to trial.
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