Tag: unfair trial
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There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis..
“The publicity in Petitioner’s case contained multiple stories and accounts of facts that Petitioner’s jury was never entitled to hear in the courtroom”
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Anatomy of a Manhunt.
This trial is a joke.. So said an infuriated and frustrated Richard Ramirez during the ridiculous charade that passed for a trial and it’s not hard to see why. This went to print July 30th, 1989. As the jury began it’s deliberation, casting was underway for a TV film called “Trackdown: The Anatomy of a…
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But Whose Cat Was It?
What on earth.. It’s something I briefly mentioned in, this post about eyewitness identification, and this one is particularly odd, to say the least. A 32 year old Arcadia housewife testified at the Municipal Court preliminaries that she had, in fact, seen the accused on 27th June, 1985. “He looked strange to me..” Indeed, very…
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Who Defends The Undefended? Part One.
*Images may require viewing via a desktop for clarity* Unqualified to defend a case of such magnitude. “It is nothing you would understand, but I do have something to say. In fact, I have a lot to say, but now is not the time or the place. I don’t even know why I am wasting…
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The Monster Under The Bed
“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for or against.” Malcom X In the summer of 1985, Los Angeles was in the grip of fear from a spate of seemingly random and brutal killings, all committed by one man, the infamous “Night Stalker”. America in the 70s…
Expendable For A Cause. 