Laptop $400
Webcam $20
1.5 TB USB drive $200

Total cost for TONS of video = $620

Also, note what it took him to reach that conclusion: only the fact that the U.S. District Court found the witness not to be credible. But for that finding, it seems, he would be fine with it.

But we’re left with the scumbags who railroaded the innocent for their own career advancement. And a system which rewards it. Until these good works lead to some kind of accountability, it’s all just a drop in the ocean.

“We all came to the opinion that without Derrick Smith, we did not have a case we could prove beyond a reasonable doubt,” Prater said. “Because the federal court already determined him to be not credible, ethically I had problems even calling him as a witness.”

Wow, that actually made my day. Kudos to you, Mr. Prater – we read about so much prosecutorial misconduct here that’s it’s nice to see someone even mention ethics.

Foobs | October 8th, 2009 at 1:22 pm
I set the over-under on prosecutorial discipline at nothing. Anyone want to take the over?

Depends what odds you want to give me on Space Aliens landing on the White House lawn this afternoon.

Of course, the practical effect of this will be many more interrogations performed outside the police station, which will not be subject to the policy.

Read numbered paragraph 3.

ADA Miller is well before my time, but that was when Bob Macy was the district attorney in Oklahoma County and nothing that happened then would surprise me.

If you told me that prosecutors and police back then had just arrested some random guy and completely fabricated every scintilla of evidence, I’d believe it.

In 2006 – after initial DNA testing had led the state Supreme Court to order a new trial in the case, and 11 years after Norsetter learned about Stephen Armstrong’s confession – a court order was in place requiring prosecutors to notify the defense any time evidence in the case was moved or going to be analyzed. Norsetter violated that court order by subjecting evidence in the case to additional DNA testing.

Those tests, which were conducted illegally, used up the biological evidence and prevented it from being available for further testing. Moreover, the type of DNA testing Norsetter ordered would not have distinguished genetic material between male relatives, rendering it useless to the defense since the principal alternate suspect was Ralph Armstrong’s brother.

If only they would be so aggressive in discouraging the cops from interfering with ordinary people recording police activities. If recording police activity during interrogations advances the cause of justice, then there should be no doubt that recording police activities everywhere else does the same.

“Seven exceptions to the recording rule include statements made during routine bookings, a suspect’s refusal to talk on tape, malfunctioning equipment and “substantial exigent circumstances” that prevent recording or preservation of the footage.” (my emphasis)

I have a feeling there’s going to be a lot of malfunctioning camera’s in Indiana…