Luke Heimlich (Part 3) — By Kristine Erickson

I’m sharing this email verbatim, per the request of the author.

I would be grateful if you will post the following info, and you are free to use my name.

This month a new damaging falsehood is flooding the media, sports blogs, and reader comments:  Luke Heimlich’s 7-page handwritten confession.

The disgusting media are too lazy to do a simple Google search before they commit libel. Kindly provide your readers with the following link to the standard guilty plea forms for Washington State Courts.

Washington State Courts – Court Forms – Guilty Plea

See Form JuCR 7.7 Statement on Plea of Guilty. That’s the form used in Juvenile Court. You can download it by clicking on the Microsoft Word symbol in that row.

The BLANK FORM is 7 pages long, people! Item 16 on page 6 is where the accused writes an admission of guilt when the judge demands it.

Now go back and check the original Oregonian story from June 2017:  “The guilty plea eliminated any need for ‘further interviews of the victim or her testimony at trial,’ prosecutors wrote. Heimlich acknowledged guilt in his own handwriting. ‘I admit that I had sexual contact’ with the girl, Heimlich wrote.”

His whole (coerced) confession was only SEVEN WORDS long. In fact, it was so short, the Oregonian felt compelled to sneakily lengthen it to ten words.

The beginning of the end for the televised Army-McCarthy hearings came on June 9, 1954, when the Army lawyer reached the end of his rope and said this to McCarthy:

“Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”

In 1954, there were enough decent people in government and media to finally bring McCarthy’s inquisition to an end. From Wikipedia:  “On December 2, 1954, the Senate voted 67-22 to censure McCarthy, effectively eradicating his influence…”

Tragically, Luke’s case has demonstrated that the media today have no sense of decency.