Lanigan

"Lanigan," said Helen, "will you state at once what you have to say?"

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"Lanigan," she replied, wiping her eyes, "you and Connor only are in our secret; we must fly this night."

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But even if Lanigan received these apologies, he would have the right to ask the same question as the famous one posed by Raymond Donovan, the Labor secretary for President Reagan.

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Yet the Fairfax County school district has not only refused to pay all of Lanigan's legal fees, it continues to treat him as if he were guilty.

Lanny Davis: The Shameful Case of Sean Lanigan and the Presumption of Guilt Culture Lanny Davis 2011

He/she or one of his/her underlings continues to hound Lanigan, treating him as if he'd been found guilty, and refuse to pay all his legal fees and take responsibility for this gross injustice.

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He answered, in words sadly applicable to Lanigan's case: "Where do I go to get my good name back?"

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But proving once again there is a God of Justice in heaven, the jury in the case acquitted Lanigan in 47 minutes -- according to the Post, "virtually unheard of in a child sex-abuse case."

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District officials continue an internal reprimand process against Lanigan, issuing him two pages of "guidelines and expectations" while he is on part-time assignment in a new school, including the instruction: "Do not touch" any students "as a means of greeting, playing with, showing approval of, or otherwise interacting with them."

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Nick Nolan former lord mayor of CoventryBallylanders, Co Limerick• My grandfather, Richard Lanigan, was one of the Tipperary players at Croke Park on bloody Sunday, 21 November 1920.

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The Post reported that all of the key people centrally responsible for this moral outrage against Lanigan "declined to comment" for the story.

Lanny Davis: The Shameful Case of Sean Lanigan and the Presumption of Guilt Culture Lanny Davis 2011