Here is a brief follow-up on the last post concerning murder conviction rates. Did you know that Japan exceeds 99% in its successful murder convictions for case brought to trial? The reason given for this is low prosecutorial budgets. There is not enough funding for...

Here is a statement I have in my research notes. It comes from Discussion Paper 611, Harvard Law School. It relates to prosecution of homicide cases but probably is applicable to any serious crime. It might even relate to prosecution of crimes in New Hampshire! "Any...

Yesterday, the post was about the truth. In the time I've worked on the Stacey Burns book, I have interviewed or spoken with many, many people. Their stories conflicted with each other on numerous occasions and those conflicts are mentioned in the narrative. How could...

A number of posts on this blog about the Stacey Burns murder have addressed the issue of the truth. What exactly is it? Are there degrees of the truth? Is there really only one truth? Can perception affect the truth? Recently, I remembered a quotation which I will...

So far, four people have commented on my post about the statement made by police that "an arrest is imminent" in the Stacey Burns murder case. It is too small a sampling to draw a conclusion but judging from those who have responded thus far, it would seem that people...

This issue has been addressed here before but there is no harm in raising it once again. Beginning several days after the murder of Stacey Burns in May of 2009, there were periodic rumors of an "imminent" arrest. The most common dictionary definition of the word...

I just discovered that several words were left out in my post about the progress in the Stacey Burns case. My sincere apologies for missing that in my edit! The corrections have been made. Here is a very interesting tidbit of information. That particular post has...