Bruce Hummel
This is a case of justice NOT served. This is not a case in which an innocent person was sent to prison or a murder went unsolved. This is a case in which it was proven, not once, but twice that the defendant had murdered his wife. The first conviction was overturned on a technicality that had nothing to do with the evidence. The second conviction was overturned because the courts did not agree with the prosecutors, or the jury apparently, that “premeditation” existed and in essence said that the prosecutors “over charged” in the case. The result was that Bruce Hummel was not only released from prison but prosecutors were barred from trying him again. This was not just a simple case of murder, not that there really is such a thing I suppose. This was a case in which not only does it seem clear that Bruce Hummel murdered his wife, Alice, in 1990, but he spent many of the eighteen years before his arrest sending gifts and cards and letters to the children that he and Ali...