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Special to A.M. Nicaragua
Eric Volz, the U.S. citizen most people believe was railroaded on a murder charge in Nicaragua, is coming out with a book on his ordeal. Volz was the magazine publisher who was accused of the murder of his former girlfriend in November 2006 even though cell phone records showed he was miles away. The murder was in San Juan del Sur and Volz established with many witnesses that he was in Managua at the time. Other likely suspects in the murder had charges dismissed or were given immunity. Eventually after a year in a Nicaraguan jail. Volz was freed by an appeals court in December 2007. His case was an international incident. The case had political dimensions in that the judge was a Sandinista loyalist. Hatred of Americans and perhaps as effort to extort money were at the root of the conviction. The mother of the slain girl claimed that the Volz family offered her \$1 million to drop the charge, but the family denies this claim. The trial in Rivas took place amid hostility toward Volz and U.S. citizens in general. Volz said he filed a petition in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States, seeking a declaration of his innocence and protection under the American Convention on Human Rights from further persecution by the Government of Nicaragua. HIs 300-page memoir will be released April 27, according to a press release from Friends of Eric Volz, "In addition to the book," Volz said, "I have just completed an innovative project that has taken almost a full |
 year to finish. The 'Exhibit Hall' is an online tool that interacts directly with my book using material such as: photographs and video from inside prison, headshots of main characters, audio tapes from trial, autopsy reports, government documents, witness statements, crime scene photos, original police case file, defense motions, court rulings, and newspaper articles. The Exhibit Hall was built primarily with the funds raised from the sale of Lady Justice t-shirts . . . ." Volz holds a degree in Latin American studies form the University of California in San Diego and studied in guadalajara, México and in the Dominican Republic. The book, "Gringo Nightmare," is being published by St. Martin's Press in New York. There is a Web site about the ordeal. |
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