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A Man Serving a 50-Year Sentence ...Has Been Exonerated After the Discovery of a Missing Dog
Time Magazine ^ | 10 Sept 2018 | Andrew Selsky

Posted on 09/10/2018 10:32:04 PM PDT by BlackVeil

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To: BlackVeil

But Hillary says women should always be believed.


21 posted on 09/11/2018 1:40:41 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: conservative98

What a horrible little cretin. I hope she at least gets nabbed and brought in for perjury. I wonder if there is anything more to this, like somebody who had an axe to grind put her up to it.


22 posted on 09/11/2018 2:25:46 AM PDT by Fhios (♫ Oh Where have you been Jeffy boy Jeffy boy oh where have you been charming Jeffy?)
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To: BlackVeil
the complainant testified Horner

Name the damn complainant. She has ruined Horner's life but she gets a free ride. Put her name out there.

23 posted on 09/11/2018 2:28:50 AM PDT by eartick (Stupidity is expecting the government that broke itself to go out and fix itself. Texan for TEXIT!)
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To: BlackVeil

WTF?


24 posted on 09/11/2018 3:17:35 AM PDT by Ciexyz (I have one issue and it's my economic well-being.)
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To: BlackVeil
Hummel told the court Monday he’s not certain that Horner did not sexually abuse the complainant, but that he’s now not convinced he did. The Associated Press is not naming her because it doesn’t identify alleged victims of sexual abuse.

What kind of statement was that for the DA to make? The only evidence was the testimony of a liar. The poor guy deserves a full exoneration. Oh, and the girl is not the victim of sexual abuse, she's a liar and perjurer. She must be named in case she should move elsewhere and does this again.

25 posted on 09/11/2018 3:18:24 AM PDT by jalisco555 ("In a Time of Universal Deceit Telling the Truth Is a Revolutionary Act" - George Orwell)
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The appeals court said the defense had not been allowed to present certain evidence........

Same thing happened to a good friend of mine. AFter serving six years, the state supreme court ordered a new trial. While still guilty, the original life sentence was reduced to 8 years with time served.......

26 posted on 09/11/2018 3:25:16 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco (I once found a needle in a haystack but it wasn't the one I was looking for...)
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-—What kind of statement was that for the DA to make? The only evidence was the testimony of a liar. The poor guy deserves a full exoneration.-—

What I’ve always noticed is that it’s very rare for prosecuting authorities to completely admit they’ve made a mistake in things like this. They hang on until the very end, insisting the conviction is always good and the defendant guilty. They still couch it even when the guy is being released. Unless there’s solid DNA or something saying the convicted is definitely innocent, these guys never like to let it go.

Maybe that’s related to not wanting to be sued or something, or if they feel it’s just doing damage to the system to give up and let a guy go who they screwed, I don’t know. Prosecutors fully admitting error in a conviction is rare.


27 posted on 09/11/2018 3:26:49 AM PDT by StoneRainbow68
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To: BlackVeil

https://www.ktvz.com/news/deschutes-da-drops-judge-dismisses-sex-abuse-charges/793006553

Per above link, am I reading that right, the alleged vic was his daughter?! And the jury did come in with a non-unanimous verdict.


28 posted on 09/11/2018 3:29:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (Has the FBI been spying on members of Congress?)
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To: mewzilla

After reading the article in your link, I would say the victim might have been his own daughter, or the daughter of someone else who was the complainant. These days grammar mistakes are common, and rarely corrected, especially in journalism. There were an awful lot of “they”s in the article, especially in the paragraph mentioning a daughter. It was very confusing.


29 posted on 09/11/2018 4:28:06 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: BlackVeil

Various types of sex crimes certainly *do* occur in this country.Crimes against adults *and* kids.But when a guy is *wrongly* accused of such a crime (which does happen at least occasionally) he’s in heap big trouble because political correctness makes presenting a credible defense very difficult indeed.


30 posted on 09/11/2018 4:45:57 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (I've Never Owned Slaves...You've Never Picked Cotton.End Of "Discussion".)
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To: StoneRainbow68

My personal experience with Prosecuting Attorneys is you won’t find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.

IMHO most graduated in the bottom 50% of their Class in Law School and failed in Private or Corporate Practice. So they end up running for Public office that props up a ego with the Authority and power of the Government to destroy lives.


31 posted on 09/11/2018 5:22:24 AM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: BlackVeil

They... didn’t have to present the body? Heh.


32 posted on 09/11/2018 6:00:18 AM PDT by VaeVictis (~Woe to the Conquered~)
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To: BlackVeil

Solution?

The accuser should have to serve out the remainder of his sentence.


33 posted on 09/11/2018 6:02:47 AM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Liberalism is the philosophy of sniveling brats. - P.J. ORourke)
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“Six months after a jury convicted Horner in a verdict that was not unanimous, he asked the Oregon Innocence Project for help. The group took up his case.”

The Innocence Project often get a bad rep here. I don't know why. They're doing good work. They're very selective as to what cases they take (everyone in prison is innocent if you ask them) and contrary to popular belief, their research actually confirms more guilty verdicts than exonerations.

34 posted on 09/11/2018 6:06:50 AM PDT by Drew68
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When I hear cases like this I have to ask how the “proof beyond reasonable doubt” standard was met?

An innocent person was sent to prison without the required *proof*. All it took was the testimony of a female.


35 posted on 09/11/2018 6:46:46 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: BlackVeil

Sounds like a Mueller trial.


36 posted on 09/11/2018 8:14:57 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Drew68

their research actually confirms more guilty verdicts than exonerations. “

Exoneration are not findings of Innocence.


37 posted on 09/12/2018 12:42:59 AM PDT by Does so (If Trump Colluded with Russians, Why Did Hillary Win The Popular Vote?)
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