Shame on you, Emmet. (Re: Meara column, “Accepting Dechaine verdict is sensible,” BDN, Feb. 2-3.)

But you and I do have something in common. When I can’t sleep, I also turn on TRU TV (the former Court TV). Did you fall asleep before the ending of “The Wrong Man, Lost in the Woods” on the Dennis Dechaine case, where two, 27-year-veteran NYC police detectives agreed that the case had been mishandled and concluded that Dechaine deserved a new trial?

I watch TRU TV in the hopes there may be some new technology or something I may have missed that could help in the Dechaine case. Do you honestly think Dechaine’s supporters have spent 20 years of their lives just for fun? No, it is because a man is in prison for a crime he did not commit.

Also, James Moore was in the same frame of mind as you when he came to my first Trial and Error meeting in Brunswick. His mission was to let us know that we were wrong. Well, his mission set him on a path he never imagined. The difference between state officials, you and James Moore is that he is the only one who had the guts to investigate this case inside out, no matter what the outcome would have been.

You say you are as convinced as the jury that Dechaine is guilty. But the jury didn’t get to hear all the evidence. Can you tell me why Dechaine was refused DNA testing? Why DNA evidence was incinerated when a motion for a new trial was filed? Go to www.trialanderrordennis.org and learn some of the state’s own facts that were hidden from the jury.

Carol Waltman

Madawaska