tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post6673755816391626232..comments2024-03-25T20:06:39.794-05:00Comments on Grits for Breakfast: 'Show up' tactic can taint witness IDsGritsforbreakfasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10152152869466958902noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-91333674952449197632008-10-13T22:09:00.000-05:002008-10-13T22:09:00.000-05:00What was more interesting about that article, to m...What was more interesting about that article, to me, was how the exoneration of one of the people profiled should cast doubt on a heck of a lot of convictions made during that same time period.<BR/><BR/>I mean, it was either an amazing coincidence that this woman was kidnapped and raped by a man with an almost identical car, almost identical house in the same neighborhood, almost identical LICENSE PLATE number, identical gun, identical clothes, identical beer as the man that DNA proved didn't do it OR the police fed the witness the evidence or changed the descriptions she gave to fit the guy they caught.<BR/><BR/>Even in 1983, I'm pretty sure that kind of thing would've been frowned on (though we saw a similar thing happen in North Carolina where one of the Duke investigators withheld physical descriptions of the alleged perpetrators given to him by the false accuser and then, in after-the-fact, typed notes, said the witness originally provided descriptions that magically matched the three indicted players, even though they were far different from the original, almost withheld descriptions). <BR/><BR/>And who knows how much other evidence was similarly fabricated in other cases.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8597101.post-29690294433886637462008-10-13T11:43:00.000-05:002008-10-13T11:43:00.000-05:00Since when again did any police really care if the...Since when again did any police <I>really</I> care if they get the right guy, just A guy...<BR/><BR/>in the case of Dallas County, who would have guessed any other way that they would practice such thin police work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com