Comments on: Today in Innocence

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:59:05 +0000

Sorry, Kelly Thomas…I always get that backwards….

By: Steve Verdon

Steve Verdon — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:58:47 +0000

A least the guy spent decades in jail on false charges. Thomas Kelly was beat to death by two Fullerton cops.

When the cops are as bad or worse than criminals…why do we still have cops?

By: daveP

daveP — Wed, 23 May 2012 15:07:22 +0000

“bout 15yrs ago in PIMA cty AZ, I was arrested on 4 counts of agg assault for defending myself in my home against a drunken violent intruder. 12 out of 13 involved sheriffs deputies lied under oath in their reports, to a JP, to a grand jury and on the stand. LE are filth and should never be obeyed. They are nothing but dangerous targets.

By: bacchys

bacchys — Wed, 23 May 2012 09:37:28 +0000

I like how the judge reminded the prosecutor that the state had a different view about the forensic evidence in their closing argument:

“At that, Green reminded him of the prosecutor’s closing arguments at trial about forensic evidence. The judge said the case prosecutor, Dean Hoag, noted that if Allen had been excluded as the source of the semen, ‘We wouldn’t be here. We’d know he couldn’t have.’”

By: Chuck U Farley

Chuck U Farley — Wed, 23 May 2012 01:48:18 +0000

A criminal always returns to the scene of the crime

By: CyniCAl

CyniCAl — Tue, 22 May 2012 23:01:14 +0000

“This was an “arrest a mentally disabled guy walking in the area of the crime because he looks vaguely like a sex offender, then coerce a confession out of him” case. But that probably doesn’t sound very convincing in a courtroom.”

Seems to work pretty well in the South. Who knows what, if anything, goes through Southerners’ minds.

By: Bill Poser

Bill Poser — Tue, 22 May 2012 19:24:20 +0000

“How is it that confessions are still admissable in court…?”

A good question. Indeed, in Jewish law, a confession is not sufficient evidence for conviction.

By: David

David — Tue, 22 May 2012 18:34:44 +0000

#3: I have actually known a Michael Spillane in real life. He was in government, too.

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:56:10 +0000

“The blood type from semen on it did not match hers, her live-in boyfriend’s or Allen’s.”

Somehow, the first of those is not surprising to me.

By: Jim Wetzel

Jim Wetzel — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:46:03 +0000

Obviously, the whole thing’s made up:

Assistant Missouri Attorney General Michael Spillane said …

Mickey Spillane? Really? Really? Naw … no way. Add Stormy Dragon’s “Joseph Crow,” and it’s case closed.

By: Stormy Dragon

Stormy Dragon — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:26:40 +0000

Is it just me, or is “Joseph Crow” a really bad name for someone in law enforcement?

By: The Late Andy Rooney

The Late Andy Rooney — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:01:47 +0000

How is it that confessions are still admissable in court, given that it is so easy to get an innocent person to confess to a crime he didn’t commit?