Eric Hartley:Guilty until proven innocent?

Whenever the government has wrongly jailed someone, the obvious question is who to blame.

In the case of Raymond Jonassen, who was locked up for four months based on false information, the answer seems simple at first.

A county police detective wrote in court charging documents that fingerprints at a December burglary scene in Glen Burnie matched Mr. Jonassen's.

That was erroneous, and charges including burglary and theft were dropped May 29.

Clearly, Detective Gregory Tate is at fault, as documented in a front-page story in The Sunday Capital. But if you stop there, without asking what else might have...