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It's a trend by bleeding heart judges to overturn cases like this. A cigarette butt does not demonstrate that the two didn't kill the girlNow that verdict is thrown out. If there was sufficiant evidence to counter the DNA results, the Judge would simply deny the motion. Or, the judge could order a retrial. In essence, the judge is ruling that there would not likely have been a conviction had this evidence been available at the time of the original trial and appeal.
Even coerced confessions are considered beyond reasonable doubt by too many people.They were founf guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt, and that verdict held up under appeal
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/u...rolina-murder-freed-after-dna-tests.html?_r=0The two young defendants were prosecuted by Joe Freeman Britt, the 6-foot-6, Bible-quoting district attorney who was later profiled by “60 Minutes” as the country’s “deadliest D.A.” because he sought the death penalty so often...
...After five hours of questioning with no lawyer present and with his mother weeping in the hallway, not allowed to see him, Mr. McCollum told a story of how he and three other youths attacked and killed the girl.
“I had never been under this much pressure, with a person hollering at me and threatening me,” Mr. McCollum said in a recent videotaped interview** with The News & Observer. “I just made up a story and gave it to them so they would let me go home.”...
... The other two men mentioned in Mr. McCollum’s confession were never prosecuted.
Noting the paucity of responses to requests for evidence of said coercion
It was just a cigarette butt
It's a trend by bleeding heart judges to overturn cases like this. A cigarette butt does not demonstrate that the two didn't kill the girl
Funny how he "just made up a story" that matched the evidence at the scene
Funny how he "just made up a story" that matched the evidence at the scene
The statement given was quite specific and matched the evidence found by police at the scene ;There is no evidence--except for your making it up-- that this is a "bleeding heart judge".
Payne told the Guardian the confession that Brown signed was riddled with inconsistencies. It was inconsistent with the physical evidence, with the facts of the case, with his brothers confession, and it contained details that were known by the police officers interrogating him at the time. When you combine that with the DNA evidence that we now have, it makes a very bold statement that both my clients and McCollums confessions were false.
At no point over the past 30 years has any physical or forensic evidence been produced to directly connect either man to Buies rape and murder. DNA testing was not available at the time of the original trial, and it is only in recent years that investigators have applied genetic testing techniques to biological evidence gathered at the crime scene.
The men signed confessions written by police interviewers and did not have attorneys present.
Sorry, but the claim I made was in general, not
specific.
Difficult to coerce such a concise confession
The statement given was quite specific and matched the evidence found by police at the scene ;
The statement given was quite specific and matched the evidence found by police at the scene ;
The Innocence Project - Understand the Causes: False Confessions / AdmissionsGive an example of the coercion used
And the two other men in the confession? Funny how they were not prosecuted.Funny how he "just made up a story" that matched the evidence at the scene
Since the police wrote the confession, I expect it would fit the evidence.The statement given was quite specific and matched the evidence found by police at the scene ;
Go back and read the links I posted for you. The other people implicated in the "confession" turned out to have air-tight alibis."The defendant Henry Lee McCollum gave a statement to law enforcement officers on 28 September 1983. He said that he saw the victim Sabrina Buie and a male named Darrell Suber come out of Sabrina's house at about 9:30 p.m. on 24 September 1983. McCollum and four other males joined them, and the group then went to a "little red house near the ballpark." The five males tried to convince Sabrina to have sexual intercourse with them, but she refused. Two of the males went to a nearby store and bought malt liquor. When they returned, the males discussed having sexual intercourse with Sabrina. One of the males, Louis Moore, refused to participate and left. McCollum, Sabrina and the others then walked across a bean field behind the store. They sat there in some bushes and drank the malt liquor. Suber then said that he was going to have sexual intercourse with Sabrina. The defendant Henry Lee McCollum grabbed Sabrina's right arm, and another member of the group grabbed her left arm. Suber then raped her while McCollum and the other male held her. Each man raped Sabrina while others held her. Evidence presented tended to show that two of the men also sodomized her.
Suber then said, "we got to do something because she'll go uptown and tell the cops we raped her." The defendant Henry Lee McCollum grabbed Sabrina's right arm and held her while another male grabbed her left arm. Chris knelt over Sabrina's head and with a stick pushed her panties down her throat. After they knew she was dead, McCollum and Chris dragged her body away to hide it from view."
Before all the evidence had been brought to the attention of the court.Also of note is that McCollum was granted a second trial, and still found guilty
Which, along with other exculpatory evidence was witheld from the defense, it is the DNA that is the issue, not the Newport. As you appear to not understand, DNA analysis was not available for the jurors to consider at the trial. And, they were not aware that a fingerprint found was never analysed (it did not match the defendants).Then someone discovered a cigarette butt
1. Had you bothered to read the links you would have seen his confession contained false info that didn't match the crime.Funny how he "just made up a story" that matched the evidence at the scene
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