Posted on 03/17/2015 9:47:23 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The suspect charged with shooting two police officers during a demonstration in Ferguson, Mo., last week is now recanting a confession that he was the gunman, his lawyer told Yahoo News on Tuesday.
“He told me that he never fired a weapon,” said Jerryl T. Christmas, attorney for Jeffrey Williams.
Christmas said Williams, 20, was scared and in a “tremendous amount of pain,” having allegedly been pistol-whipped before being questioned by detectives.
“I think under those circumstances he would have said anything,” Christmas said. “Anytime someone is questioned without counsel and then I see that kind of bruising, then I'm suspicious about any statements that he may have voluntarily given.”
The lawyer said the injuries can be seen in the jail mug shot of his client.
“He had bruising … you see the redness on the right side of his face,” Christmas said. “I don't see how they are denying it, it’s right there on their own mug shot.”(continued)
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“He told me that he never fired a weapon,”
So... what did he fire?
I guess he could say another guy in the car used a gun, but didn’t know who that guy was...He could probably say a lot of things. And it seems he already has.
You learn something every new day.
That does sort of complicate things.
Better Call Jeryl.
Back then he was still suffering duress and felt threatened due to being pistol whipped during the interrogation.
why do I suspect that this guy has been on camera most of then time he has been in custody. my guess is that this felon has been handled with kid gloves by the police. he is not going to be able to walk away from this
There is about a four- hour window of opportunity to collect GSR.....according to the instructions. Probably a bit longer, but not reliably. It is not good to try after that amount of time, because a negative result is evidence for the defense.
It seems they’re looking for a new martyr.
c 19.
That should have been done. I have not heard anything about that, so I don't know if it was or not.
The test checks for the presence of nitrates. It will not show positive if the gun was just handled. It would show positive if the body parts checked (normally the hands) were near a gun when it was fired. He would not necessarily have to be holding the gun when it was fired.
False positives are possible. For instance, if you had been handling or spreading fertilizer, your hands would then test positive for nitrates.
The residue can be washed off, but I am not sure how hard that is to do. It may take more than one washing.
Over time, skin sloughs away. So anything on the surface of the skin, whether soluble or not, will be shed in a few days.
Yeah, that’s the ticket. /Lovitz
Jeffrey Williams’ initial story that he was shooting at others, I believe was an effort to slip out of the charge of intentionally shooting to murder police officers. Who were these targets of his gun shots?
It seems a stretch that all shots missed the “intended” target and struck police officers. I am thinking that investigators have shot enough holes in Williams’ story that it has caused him to change the story. Now it is the police beat a false confession out of him. This fails to consider that the shell casings match the gun that was taken from Williams. And, if slugs from that gun can be recovered, ballistics tests made on the bullets will tie that gun directly to the shooter.
Good point. Keep in mind the St. Louis/Ferguson area has been pulverized by the media and ruling class race industry. Even the POTUS has dropped racism bombs on the cops. The last thing they need is another poor victim at the hands of the police department.
Or they calling it capping a round, not firing a weapon. We’ve all learned so much from Clinton’s use of language.
Those guys have some funny stuff...
Did he have the gun or not?
I think a large part of it was that he discovered that the penalty for assaulting somebody and hitting a peace officer is exactly the same as the penalty for assaulting a peace officer and hitting a peace officer. I think the original story came from his naïve belief that not intending to hit a LEO somehow mitigated what he’d done.
Did you catch the moment where Jeryl corrected himself mid-sentence? “I know he didn’t.. uh.. I’m not aware of him firing a gun”.
You are spot on. His defense will not work and now he is trying to conjure up a story of police brutality in order to exploit the police are the criminals nonsense.
I’m sensitive to that kind of stuff. Back in the OJ murder trial, I think I drove Cochran crazy for a while.
He’d do stuff like that, I’d comment on it, and the next morning he’d stand up and correct it.
“I can categorically deny....” Then the press would say he categorically denied it, and I’d say, “no he didn’t, he said he COULD deny it, not that he DID deny it”. I subsequently discovered that the defense was logging on to our site every day.
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