Testimonials
"I am firmly convinced that he did not receive a fair trial," Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard Law School.
LaGuer Reconsidered
For 23 Years, Ben LaGuer has maintained his innocence. That's only kept him in jail longer on a rape conviction. WHAT NOW?
By Eric Goldscheider
Valley Advocate
August 17, 2006
Boston Magazine: October 1999
The Ghost of Willie Horton
By Sean Flynn
A Record of Civil Rights Abuses and Junk Forensics - One Case Study of Ben LaGuer’s Wrongful Conviction
Recent News
March 27, 2009
WBZ Radio Talk Host Dan Rea interviews - Judge Isaac Borenstein (ret) newest member
of Ben LaGuer's defense team, professor Leslie Epstein and attorney Lisa Billowitz
discuss how Ben's self-financed DNA test was contaminated. March 20, 2009
The Boston Globe reports that LaGuer's case will be taken up by a retired Superior Court judge. For
more than 25 years Benjamin LaGuer, an Afro-Puerto Rican man, has been a Massachusetts inmate, wrongfully imprisoned for a crime he did not
commit. At the age of 20, just home from the Army, LaGuer had the
misfortune of staying in an apartment in Leominster, MA, next door to a
brutal attack on an elderly woman. In a rush to judgment police
arrested LaGuer, overlooking a likelier suspect.
LaGuer’s trial was rife with irregularities, including a report from a
juror that members of the all-white, all-male panel made racial slurs
that attributed LaGuer’s alleged guilt to his ethnicity. The Ben LaGuer Committee, a group of citizens, committed to supporting Mr. LaGuer as he works to receive a new and fair trial solicit contributions for Ben’s monthly personal expenses and for his new defense fund. Who is Benjamin LaGuer?
DNA Expert Statements
Letter from DNA expert Dr. Theodore D. Kessis Forensic Case Review by Dean A. Wideman
Letter from Harvard DNA expert Prof. Daniel L. Hartl Letter from DNA expert Dr. Lawrence KobilinskyCommittee