Some Things Can't Be Forgiven, and Some People Don't Deserve Forgiveness

When RMoney and Eddie Munster natter on about "personal responsibility," they're not talking about the cops and prosecutors who stole nine years from Edwin Chandler.

Joseph Lord at the Courier:

Edwin Chandler said he appreciates Louisville metro government “stepping up” and paying $8.5 million to settle a wrongful-conviction lawsuit, but he can’t bring himself to forgive the retired Louisville police detective he blames for his years in prison.

“There is no way I can possibly even put myself in position to even meet with him — I probably never will,” said Chandler, describing Detective Mark Handy as a “bully.”


But, he also said, “I’m not bitter anymore.”

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Chandler was convicted of manslaughter and robbery in 1995 in Whitfield’s death and served nine years before being paroled. The Kentucky Innocence Project took up his case after he’d been paroled, pushing Louisville Metro Police to have a fingerprint on a beer bottle handled by the killer retested in 2009. With a more advanced automated fingerprinting system, the print was matched to another man, Percy Phillips.

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Chandler claimed that investigators ignored evidence of his innocence — “a veritable perfect storm of misconduct.”

Chandler has said that detectives coerced his confession to Whitfield’s murder, using scare tactics and coaching.