The LA Times serves up a puff piece about Brandon Mayfield, the Portland lawyer wrongly accused (due to faulty fingerprint analysis) of involvement in the Madrid train bombings—and makes no mention at all of Mayfield’s ties to convicted terrorist Jeffrey Battle of the Portland Seven jihad group: A Fuzzy Fingerprint Leaves a Lasting Mark. (Hat tip: Eric Pobirs.)

Mayfield, finished with dinner, pushed his plate away and appeared to be in deep thought. Sharia and Samir teased each other behind him, sometimes bumping and jostling him. The kids laughed. Cats — the Mayfields have five — walked in and out of the room. Some lawyers, Mayfield said, put a stuffed salmon or a musket or a picture of a president on their wall at the office, “something that defines them.” In his office, Mayfield kept a framed copy of the Bill of Rights, and he noted that when FBI agents ransacked his office, “the one thing they didn’t touch was the Bill of Rights.”

“Can you tell me what the 5th Amendment says?” Mayfield asked a visitor, who stumbled through a definition. “That’s OK. Let’s ask Shane.” The eldest son, still in front of a computer, said: “It’s the right to be quiet.” Mayfield smiled, and then recited the amendment by heart, emphasizing the part that read:

No person shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.

Mayfield said his 5th Amendment rights were violated.

“The government took a dump on the Bill of Rights,” he said.

“That’s poetic, Dad,” Sharia said.

“You can print that,” Mayfield said.

Now isn’t that a Kodak moment?