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To: ForbesFan

What if he’s really not guilty?


3 posted on 11/18/2021 12:07:37 PM PST by Artemis Webb (Be kind to each other, unless the other guy is a dumbass.)
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To: Artemis Webb

I’ve read they have the daughter as a witness who was in the car, bystanders saw him and there was dna evidence.

“Paul Scott Howell, a businessman, was shot to death while sitting in the driver’s seat of his GMC Suburban, which was parked in the driveway of his parents’ home in Edmond, Oklahoma, on July 28, 1999. Howell’s daughter, Rachel Howell, said she remembered sitting in the backseat of their car and seeing Jones approach the car. She claims she then saw Jones shoot her father in the head. The murderer then left in Howell’s Suburban Witnesses at the time reported seeing a black man with a red bandana and 1–2 inches of hair showing between his ear and wave cap shoot Howell. Jones had a shaved[vague] head at the time Police found the murder weapon wrapped in a red bandana in Jones’ family home. Jones and Jordan were ultimately arrested and indicted for first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit a felony (the stolen Suburban)”

ones denied having a role in the carjacking that led to Howell’s murder. Jones and his family have maintained that he was eating dinner and playing games at home with his family on the night of the murder. Jones also stated that Christopher Jordan spent the night at Jones’ house on the evening of the murder and maintains that Jordan planted evidence framing Jones for the murder. According to Jones, the officer who arrested him called him a “nigger” and dared him to run, implying the officer would shoot him if he did.

Legal proceedings
Christopher Jordan, Jones’ co-defendant, entered a plea agreement with the state in which he received a 30-year prison sentence for murder and conspiracy under the condition that he testify against Jones. During the trial, neither Jones nor his family testified, and the defense team did not bring up his alibi. In an affidavit, Jones’ public defender, David McKenzie, later stated that this was because he had “personally concluded that the alibi defense was untrue”. Eleven out of the twelve jurors at the trial were white; one juror allegedly referred to Jones as a “n...”. One juror alleges another juror called for Jones to be lynched outside the courthouse. Jones was found guilty and sentenced to death in 2002.

In 2017, a DNA test linked Jones to the red bandana that was found wrapped around the murder weapon found in his family’s home”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Darius_Jones


10 posted on 11/18/2021 12:14:22 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Artemis Webb

“What if he’s really not guilty?”

The evidence in this case seems to be:
*The murder implements were found in Jones’ home
*Testimony of Christopher Jordan, who claimed to have been Jones’ getaway driver

Jones claims that Jordan was the killer and hid the murder weapon at Jones’ house to frame him.

Not an impossible story, and to me enough reasonable doubt not to execute.


12 posted on 11/18/2021 12:16:48 PM PST by Renfrew
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To: Artemis Webb
What if he’s really not guilty?

It's not about that. It's about the method of execution "causing severe suffering and pain".

13 posted on 11/18/2021 12:25:33 PM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: Artemis Webb
What if he’s really not guilty?

That's what juries are for. They saw it otherwise.

22 posted on 11/18/2021 12:39:12 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Artemis Webb

Read post 10.. He sounds pretty guilty to me.. The Governor error d on this.. The guy needs to be executed..


36 posted on 11/18/2021 1:37:36 PM PST by tallyhoe
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