Article reporting the withholding of exculpatory evidence is @ http://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/local/2015/06/12/attorney-fdle-concealed-dna-evidence-quadruple-homicide/71150044/
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Florida's Department of Law Enforcement sat on DNA evidence for 2 plus years on exculpatory DNA evidence. Motions have been filed to dismiss arguing FDLE’s “conscious, willful and deliberate
attempt” to conceal the DNA information [the defendant faces the death penalty].
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Until the Supreme Court requires ALL evidence and reports as generated to be simultaneously available for viewing to criminal defendants, this will not stop.
Tuesday, June 16, 2015
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
If We Can't Completely Trust Your DA to Toss Meritless Cases, Maybe Some Balance Can be Found in Developing Arrest Integrity Units??
What about developing arrest integrity units in police departments to
check, double check, triple check the evidence before forwarding the
case to the prosecutors office? If the integrity unit determines there
is not enough evidence to bring charges, then the suspect could be
released without being indicted. That way the number of false arrests and
convictions will drop. Any interest in this locally??
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In North Carolina , two innocent men were released on DNA evidence[ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/us/2-convicted-in-1983-north-carolina-murder-freed-after-dna-tests.html?_r=0] considered by the court over 30 years later. Image a DA's office that would have embraced seeking that justice be done by testing decades sooner?
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In North Carolina , two innocent men were released on DNA evidence[ http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/us/2-convicted-in-1983-north-carolina-murder-freed-after-dna-tests.html?_r=0] considered by the court over 30 years later. Image a DA's office that would have embraced seeking that justice be done by testing decades sooner?
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