Joe Biden was hypocritical – and “blindsided” the victim’s daughter – when in December he commuted the death sentence given to a corrupt former police officer after he orchestrated the murder of a woman who filed a brutality complaint against him, according to the retired assistant US attorney whose job it was to prosecute the case.
In a guest column published on Friday by Louisiana’s Advocate newspaper, Michael McMahon said the clemency given to the ex-New Orleans policeman Len Davis was “morally depraved” – and not revealed to the family of Kim Groves, the slain woman, until virtually the last minute, all but violating US justice department policies designed to give victims’ loved ones a voice in such decisions.
