Posted on 10/21/2009 5:49:42 PM PDT by HogsBreath
An attorney for a black woman who claimed torture by a white group in West Virginia says his client fabricated the story to get back at a boyfriend who had beaten her up.
(Excerpt) Read more at mynorthwest.com ...
Oopsie!
Tawanna Brawley.
I wonder if he'll come back for round two, “the exoneration.”
“Paging Al Sharpton. Rev. Sharpton, please answer the nearest black racist courtesy phone.”
It seems the accused may have convicted themselves. Weird all around.
http://wvgazette.com/News/200910201215
I thought all or most of the people convicted had plead guilty. Not a good idea to do that when the charges are very serious, you know you didn’t do it, and six other people know you didn’t do it, while only the victim is claiming you did. Methinks somebody is paying her off and/or threatening her to get her to change her story.
Or the accused were prosecuted in a jurisdiction in which they were certain to be convicted no matter what the facts were and so copped a plea.
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Perhaps, but this was nationally publicized and with such a large group of accused, I find it hard to believe that their attorneys (all 7 of them!) would have recommended pleading guilty, if the perps were all telling their attorneys they really didn’t do it.
Who is this prosecutor? He needs to be hounded from public life. Guilty pleas mean nothing if the defendants have been convinced that the alternative to accepting a lighter sentence is a long term in prison for something they did not do. From the beginning, the lurid details of this case seemed improbable—”forced to eat feces”, indeed. Looks like the railroading of poor, poorly educated folks by an ambitious prosecutor, the usually and predictably pathetic media, a racial lynch mob, and a pathetic, confused woman.
LMAO!!!!
Ms. Williams’ attorney was Malik Zulu Shabazz, head of the New Black Panther Party and advocate that all white men are guilty until proven innocent. See, e.g., the Duke lacrosse players.
I have to at least give Al credit for doing this, though I'm sure he doesn't want to have another Tawana Brawley.
Maybe it was a party gone out-of-bounds?
I hate to think about what the black prisoners did to these falsely accused white people in prison. Sounds like it would be hell.
These are poor people if I remember correctly. Poor often equates to copping a guilty plea rather than risk a crummy court appointed attorney (provided the Judge felt they qualified... the did own property) and getting more time as punishment for turning down the plea. Obviously, there wouldn’t have been lawyers banging down their doors to defend seven white people that had tortured and abused a black woman.
No, they probably would have had public defenders, but publc defenders are usually pretty adept at getting even guilty people off the hook. With a group of SEVEN defendants, I just don’t believe all the public defenders would have advised them that it was futile to try to defend themselves. Plus, I believe there was physical evidence supporting the convictions too.
It’s very unlikely that these convicts were falsely accused. The recanter’s story just doesn’t make sense. These people all pleaded guilty, as I recall, because there was enough physical evidence to easily support the convictions.
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