So the hardworking staff opened the Campaign Outsider mailbag today and what poured out but a letter from convicted rapist and serial appealist Ben LaGuer, who has a website for those of you keeping score at home.

For everyone else, LaGuer has spent 26 years in the slammer for beating and raping his 59-year-old neighbor.

(BTW, the Wikipedia entry for LaGuer never mentions the victim’s name – nor does LaGuer in his flyer/pamphlet/ précis. In fact, it’s almost impossible to dig it up – stick “LaGuer victim” into the Googletron and see for yourself.)

(BTW also,  Campaign Outsider is no expert regarding this case, but the fact that LaGuer could be free now – and isn’t – by simply copping to the crime does give us pause, as they say.)

In his missive, LaGuer sent the hardworking staff a cordial and unassuming note along with three copies of a – what to call it – flyer/pamphlet/précis headlined, “The Curious Case of Benjamin LaGuer: A Wrongful Conviction Case Study.”

(Three copies? Collect them all? Trade them with your friends? What?)

LaGuer’s case study (summary here) featured the usual suspect arguments, at least as far as the Massachusetts judicial system is concerned. Representative sample:

*   When DNA was requested in January 2000, prosecutors began a campaign to delay testing and even accused the defense of tampering with the physical evidence, instantly shifting the focus from the emerging exculpatory arguments.

Okaaay . . .

Keep us posted.