Not much time for the blog today, but here's a brief update on Cuomo v. Pirro.
Most of the action today revolved around Jeffrey Deskovic, wrongfully convicted of rape and murder, who blasted Pirro Wednesday for not helping him when he contacted her during the mid-1990s.
Deskovic hasn't yet released his correspondence with Pirro, and probably won't until Monday, according to Innocence Project spokesman Eric Ferrero. And the Westchester DA still hasn't identified the guy whose DNA has been matched to the crime, who has now confessed.
So we still don't know exactly when Deskovic contacted Pirro, what the state of DNA technology and the DNA database was at the time, or whether the actual culprit's DNA was yet in the database. Even the Innocence Project says Deskovic contacted them at some point during the 1990s -- and they couldn't help him at the time, because DNA testing and the database hadn't evolved.
A lot isn't known. Nonetheless, Assemb. Joe Lentol weighed in with a proposal to make it easier for convicts to get DNA comparisons, and to require videotaping of police interrogations. Pirro said she supported both in some form, but was pretty non-specific. And Cuomo and fellow Democrat Leslie Crocker Snyder, the ex-judge who lately ran for DA against Morgenthau, both found ways to blast Pirro without naming her, in a byzantine political dance admirably analyzed at Capitol Confidential.
As for tomorrow, Empire Zone had it first, and the Cuomo camp confirms that they will unveil their first ad tomorrow, featuring -- who else? -- Eliot Spitzer. No doubt he'll talk about how happy he was when Cuomo and HUD bigfooted his gun-industry litigation back in the 1990s. And everyone will believe him because everyone knows that Eliot always does the right thing.