After his beloved assistant prosecutors were routed in trying to nail Tonya Craft with a wrongful conviction, Buzz Franklin, the district attorney for the Lookout Mountain Judicial District in Georgia, has declared that it was my fault. According to the distinguished DA:

In most cases, the media strives to present their coverage of criminal trials in a fair and even-handed way that serves to inform the public.  In this case, a number of local reporters openly took sides and heavily slanted their coverage in favor of the defense.

Combined with the dynamics of the internet blogosphere, it created an environment hostile to the State’s ability to receive a fair trial and portrayed the victims and their families in a false and negative light.  This was an integral, purposeful and shameless part of the defense strategy. (emphasis mine)

I have this response to Buzz’s press release. All I can say is that I had NO contact with the defense before or during the trial and was not part of any “strategy.” What you read was a lie, but the state never lies, does it? By the way, according to the proceedings, Tonya Craft was on trial, not the state. However, I must admit that perhaps Buzz gave us a Freudian slip! Maybe the state SHOULD have been on trial!