Preston’s testimony convicted Dale Sutton in Cleveland, Ohio @ 1981. Sutton served two years for robbing a US postal station before actual perpetrators cleared him. Stephen Epperly was convicted by Preston’s testimony in Virginia, he doesn’t seem aware that Preston’s been discredited; an appeal on the internet addresses handling of the “scent evidence,” not how bogus John Preston was. In Orange County, FL, hapless Linroy Bottoson was executed based on Preston’s testimony although a legitimate dog handler, Deputy Greer, said Preston’s claims weren’t credible. Bottoson, a schizophrenic, didn’t know if he’d killed anyone, but he was certain that if someone had died, he could fix everything by raising them from the dead. Wish I were mistaken or kidding.

You can watch Preston attempt to defend his “investigations” on a 1984 segment of ABC’s “20/20″ that the Innocence Project of Florida posted on YouTube. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwF94oXsnvc]

The more hits this video gets, the more Gov. Crist will get the message that eyes are on him everywhere to step up and do the right thing. He has the statutory authority to appoint a Special Prosecutor to investigate.

Crist appointed the majority of Judges who sit on Florida’s Supreme Court. Dedge and Dillon had to move mountains to get out from under Preston; it won’t be any easier for the scores of others that are still behind bars unless total strangers stand up for them.

Dedge and Dillon’s stories are on the Innocence Project of Florida’s website. [http://www.floridainnocence.org/]

These are people’s lives they were so cavalierly and prejudiciously screwing with.

Euthanasia now!

…You’d think the K9 trained cop would know that all dogs can track over water.

-fred

Well, lookit that. Trooper Martin’s lawyer, Gary James, is defending Martin’s god given right to harass shit near anyone he thinks is dissing him.

Yeah, that strategy is not going to backfire.

Would that be the same Bill Dillon that was told by the state of Florida that he would not be reimbursed for the time he spent in prison based on that wrongful conviction… just because he had a previous non-violent drug conviction?

http://floridainnocence.org/content/?p=726

Do you think the federal prosecutors should seek the death penalty against James von Brunn?

Possible answers are yes and no. The answer must always be no. I don’t care if this the the Holocaust Museum White Supremacist that killed a guard…

Oh, it is.

I still vote no.

Others, not so much… the tally at 3397 votes is 82% yes, 18% no.

#23 MDGuy

More insanity in FL – don’t know how many other people have seen this but apparently they’re prosecuting this guy for pasting pictures of little girls to adult pornography (no actual exploitation of children involved). He sounds like a creep but child porno it ain’t.

The jury probably thought this guy is a creep and the pictures are of a child so let’s hang him. The fact that he had been a principal and worked around children probably didn’t do much to help his standing with the jury.

It will be interesting to see if it’s upheld. Personally, I don’t like that they even tried such an iffy case. There certainly is good reason to believe it won’t be upheld and there are probably better ways to spend the taxpayer’s money. Child porn laws are meant to prevent the abuse of children in the making of porn so this prosecution isn’t within the intent of the law.

Also, the article doesn’t go into any detail about whether he was showing other people or how they discovered the pictures. If they were for his own private use, then I doubt it will matter if the girls are recognizable. Even obscenity is hard to prosecute if there’s no intent to distribute. If no one is ever likely to see the pictures, there would be no harm to the girls. Of course, now that they’ve prosecuted him for it, there’s no telling how many people have or will see the pictures.

It should be good! It’s supposed to start at 2 CST.

I bet 50 Quatloos that says Martin resigns, and blames his conduct on the stress from his recent stint in Iraq.

Okay, I jest.