Showing posts with label innocent. Show all posts
Showing posts with label innocent. Show all posts

Saturday, May 18, 2013

Brady v Maryland

 
 
According to Brady v Maryland, all exculpatory evidence must be turned over to the defense by the prosecution. If the prosecution withholds evidence and they convict the defendent, he can appeal the verdict based on the Brady violation. The problem with that scenario is, you're appealing your conviction to the Judge that presided over your trial and believed you were guilty in the first place.

Nothing is Impossible

 
Nothing is Impossible

Monday, May 13, 2013

Brandon Thorne


 

 

Exonerate

ex·on·er·ate

  Definition of EXONERATE

  1: to relieve of a responsibility, obligation, or hardship

2: to clear from accusation or blame

— ex·on·er·a·tion noun

— ex·on·er·a·tive adjective

Intimacy a Selective Issue?



This area of the victim's bedroom was littered with sexual objects. Under her bed there was reportedly many sexual "toys", none of which made it to evidence. She was reportedly having sexual relationships with many police officers. This was never considered a crime with a sexual motive even though David Thorne was arrested due to the fact that he had been intimately involved with her. If that alone was motive, why were no policemen interviewed concerning this crime?

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

"I don't know"

 
 
Joseph Wilkes, the man that initially confessed to being hired to commit the murder, responded on the stand 138 times with the response "I don't know", or something similar, would you believe that he was being truthful about his involvement in the crime?  The truth never changes.  It's only when you lie that you can't remember the answers given previously.

My Year, My Time, My Freedom.

 

Monday, May 6, 2013

Spoiled Brat Rich Kid


Detectives called David Thorne a "smartass" and a "spoiled brat rich kid". They coerced Joseph Wilkes into confessing to a crime he didn't commit and implicating David Thorne. While initially interviewing David, detectives said to him, "Help us help you". David's answer was, "What? You think I did this?" Being incredulous evidently made David a "smartass". All three of those detectives know they coerced Joe and had him implicate David. They all know they are innocent. How do they tell themselves that's alright? This is not justice.

Take a Stand


The public is finally beginning to realize that citizens are indeed wrongfully incarcerated in our country due to all of the overturned convictions. The fact that wrongful convictions continue to happen in light of such information is what should make people take a stand.


Saturday, April 27, 2013

Friends?



According to one prosecution witness interviewed post-trial, detectives told him they didn't have any evidence to convict David of this crime. They said that despite the absence of evidence, they were convinced that David must be guilty. They asked him if he'd "help them out" and change his testimony to fit their scenario of the crime; that he'd be responsible for getting a "dangerous man" off of the streets. The man, a long-time friend of David's, obliged. One betrayal among many leading to a tainted trial and a wrongful conviction.

Invalid Confession of Joe Wilkes



In court under oath, Joe Wilkes stated that he was saying "what they told me to say" as he pointed at the prosecutors. He has recanted his confession. Joe testified at David's post-conviction hearing to these facts and told how the police coerced him into implicating David and how they denied him an attorney. The court ruled that was not enough to warrant giving David Thorne a new trial. One would have to wonder, what is enough?

Friday, April 26, 2013

Experience

 
 
No matter how devoted an advocate we are. No matter how loving a family member. No matter what we go through while someone we care about is behind bars. None of us has any idea or could ever fully comprehend what a wrongfully incarcerated inmate goes through. There are no words that can make us fully understand. It's an experience that can only be understood through the experience itself.

Sunday, April 21, 2013

So Many Visitors



The police estimate that Yvonne Layne was murdered at 10:00 pm. They give no reason for giving this time and it is not related to the coroner's findings. Three men admit in statements that they individually visited Yvonne at or near the time of her death on March 31st, 1999, the first being seen in the victim's driveway with her at 7:30 p.m. They all deny involvement in her death. Either one of them is lying and they actually committed the murder, or including the murderer, 4 different people stopped by the victim's house at approximately the same time, none bumping into the others.