tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post1348020974454878474..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: Emotional pair of DNA exonerations argue for changing eyewitness ID proceduresGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-73703936027462137872008-09-23T15:00:00.000-05:002008-09-23T15:00:00.000-05:00Why does it seem like half the time you hear about...Why does it seem like half the time you hear about prosecutorial misconduct or negligence leading to the conviction of an innocent person, the prosecutor who tried the case is by now a sitting judge. In the Tim Masters case in Colorado, the two prosecutors that were reprimanded for their failure to turn over exculpatory evidence are both sitting judges.<BR/><BR/>As long as voters continue to vote people onto the bench based on their excellent conviction records as prosecutors, this type of thing will continue to happen.<BR/><BR/>I tell you who I'd like to hear from on this case--any of the original jurors. How could 12 people decide that the testimony of one person identifying a stranger was proof beyond a reasonable doubt in the face of a timecard and the supervisor's testimony of the alibi? I would really like to see how they feel about the fact that they sent a man to die in prison for a crime he did not commit when the reasonable doubt was right there in front of them. Thank you for your service, ladies and gentlemen.123txpublicdefender123https://www.blogger.com/profile/16074278445586583355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-78199731275221064422008-09-23T12:15:00.000-05:002008-09-23T12:15:00.000-05:00Doran, the Lubbock D.A. who prosecuted Timothy Col...Doran, the Lubbock D.A. who prosecuted Timothy Cole was Jim Bob Darnell. He is now a Lubbock County District Judge.Nataliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04955195080701161816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-75114231390628771212008-09-23T11:52:00.000-05:002008-09-23T11:52:00.000-05:00What is done when there is only the word of one pe...What is done when there is only the word of one person against another person and no witnesses. What happens when a case should have been a misdemeanor if that and a young man was sent to prison by words given to the testifying person by the DA and threatened if not repeated, this persons children would be taken by CPS and CPS verified this would happen? Yes, this is a true story and a young man sits in prison when he did nothing but threaten himself and the other person started lying about the situation.<BR/><BR/>Our Criminal Justice System is so broken, everyone connected to the system should be released and the system started over.<BR/><BR/>Our country is in a horrible mess including the systems in the State of Texas. Maybe some new blood in the House and Senate would help. <BR/><BR/>There are some who do a wonderful job and others who just put out hot air and words and do nothing.<BR/><BR/>texngal59Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-82497599513820181632008-09-22T21:02:00.000-05:002008-09-22T21:02:00.000-05:00Who were the two detectives and the Lubbock DA bla...Who were the two detectives and the Lubbock DA blamed by Mallin for the wrongful conviction? Are they still living? Has anyone interviewed them? Do they feel or have they experienced any remorse?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-36326052382916505532008-09-22T13:12:00.000-05:002008-09-22T13:12:00.000-05:00\If the Duke case hadn't involved rich guys and an...\If the Duke case hadn't involved rich guys and an elite school the case wouldn't have been brought. Nifong saw a political opportunity which wouldn't have existed in other circumstances.Soronel Haetirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11639906179427371695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-28816386573454362092008-09-22T12:51:00.000-05:002008-09-22T12:51:00.000-05:00Yes, Ryan, and if the defendants had not had the m...Yes, Ryan, and if the defendants had not had the means to defend themselves, that is, if they had been poor, they would be in jail now and for a long time to come.<BR/><BR/>froom Charles KikerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-59895415117798804972008-09-22T12:05:00.000-05:002008-09-22T12:05:00.000-05:00I'm not sure that reforms will help. I mean, Durha...I'm not sure that reforms will help. I mean, Durham, NC is supposed to use these best practices in line-ups, which is all well and good until the D.A. wants to get re-elected and throws out the rules, putting together a no-wrong-answers line-up in order to get somebody indicted.<BR/><BR/>Between that and the open discovery law that was flouted repeatedly, it seems like that if a D.A. wants to break the rules, it takes extraordinary actions for anyone to do anything about it (and had the Duke case not been so high profile, I firmly believe that those extraordinary actions would not have been taken, Nifong would still be D.A. and we'd have seen a trial with the tainted ID allowed in court (certainly the judges on the case had no interest in making Nifong comply with open discovery despite repeated chances to do so).Ryan Paigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12171317748419259984noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-79036244700208526082008-09-22T11:33:00.000-05:002008-09-22T11:33:00.000-05:00The folks that say "See, the justice system is wor...The folks that say "See, the justice system is working, the innocent man was released." will be laughed out of town on this one.<BR/><BR/>The Justice System failed on this one, over and over again.<BR/><BR/>Improvements in the use of eye witness identifications are definately needed. With the determined work of people like Grits, hopefully we'll see progress soon!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com