I just watched another 48Hour Mystery and it was yet another disturbing Real life court case
where it looked like the cops & prosecutor were just making up a case and somehow the jury was convinced
that a 17yr old extremely "normal-good" kid committed a very very violent and senseless act of robbery
and murder.
2 years after the crime, one kid said he had a dream after reading an article on the anniversary of the murder of a
sports editor in MO. His dream made him think he did the crime with another kid on Halloween. His friends who he told thought
he was crazy and told him he should get some help and didn't believe him.
The interrogation that he had when he went to the station was filmed. The kid didn't know anything about the crime
and he told them he had a dream......the cops told him how it happened and where and most of the details that weren't
in the newspaper.
The kid said he and a buddy did it after they were drinking at a bar(which they snuck into) and he also told stories about how
they went back to the bar after closing which never happens at bars.
The kid who he accused of doing the murder with him Did Not Seem Guilty At All! I mean NOT AT ALL.
There was NO Forensic evidence even though there was mass blood.
No witnesses except a janitor who said at the time that he couldn't recognize the killers but somehow, after
the one kid confessed, he decided he recognized the kids perfectly. He was a felon who had spent years in prison
for violent crime.
Anyway, the whole show showed the ridiculousness of the prosecution's case and I just couldn't believe that the jury
could convict this young man-either of them.
They brought in an expert on memory and false memories. She couldn't convince the jury that it was common and perfectly
normal to have false memories when prompted by police and family members on an unsolved murder especially.
The kid that dreamed he did it also had a record for forgery & fraud(as a teenager) and they gave him a deal of 25 yrs for testifying
against the other kid.
The nice normal kid got 40 yrs.
I wonder how many innocent people go to prison because of police interrogation tactics?
I'm pretty sick thinking that anyone could be framed and railroaded.....even in this day of forensic evidence.
just wondering...
where it looked like the cops & prosecutor were just making up a case and somehow the jury was convinced
that a 17yr old extremely "normal-good" kid committed a very very violent and senseless act of robbery
and murder.
2 years after the crime, one kid said he had a dream after reading an article on the anniversary of the murder of a
sports editor in MO. His dream made him think he did the crime with another kid on Halloween. His friends who he told thought
he was crazy and told him he should get some help and didn't believe him.
The interrogation that he had when he went to the station was filmed. The kid didn't know anything about the crime
and he told them he had a dream......the cops told him how it happened and where and most of the details that weren't
in the newspaper.
The kid said he and a buddy did it after they were drinking at a bar(which they snuck into) and he also told stories about how
they went back to the bar after closing which never happens at bars.
The kid who he accused of doing the murder with him Did Not Seem Guilty At All! I mean NOT AT ALL.
There was NO Forensic evidence even though there was mass blood.
No witnesses except a janitor who said at the time that he couldn't recognize the killers but somehow, after
the one kid confessed, he decided he recognized the kids perfectly. He was a felon who had spent years in prison
for violent crime.
Anyway, the whole show showed the ridiculousness of the prosecution's case and I just couldn't believe that the jury
could convict this young man-either of them.
They brought in an expert on memory and false memories. She couldn't convince the jury that it was common and perfectly
normal to have false memories when prompted by police and family members on an unsolved murder especially.
The kid that dreamed he did it also had a record for forgery & fraud(as a teenager) and they gave him a deal of 25 yrs for testifying
against the other kid.
The nice normal kid got 40 yrs.
I wonder how many innocent people go to prison because of police interrogation tactics?
I'm pretty sick thinking that anyone could be framed and railroaded.....even in this day of forensic evidence.
just wondering...
