Posted on 03/22/2022 2:55:26 PM PDT by lowbridge
On April 15, 1994, Donald Ewing and Doniel Quinn were shot in the afternoon while they sat in a parked car in Kansas City, Kansas.
Police quickly zeroed in on a man named Lamonte McIntyre, who lived just a mile from where the shooting took place. McIntyre had no connection to the victims and no motive to kill them, nor was there any physical evidence tying him to the case. In addition, five people were able to say where McIntyre was before, during, and after the murder.
But police had two witnesses to the shooting who identified McIntyre from a photo line-up, reported the non-profit Centurion, which is dedicated to freeing people who are wrongly convicted. One of the witnesses, Niko Quinn, was a cousin to the victims, and told Assistant District Attorney Terra Morehead ahead of the trial that McIntyre was not the murderer after she first saw him in person. Quinn claimed that Morehead threatened to charge her with contempt and take away her children if she didn’t testify that McIntyre was the man she saw commit the double homicide. Two years after the trial, Quinn recanted her identification in a signed affidavit, saying she had been forced to identify McIntyre as the shooter or risk losing her children. Quinn’s sister also came forward to say she had also witnessed the murder and that McIntyre was not the shooter.
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I wouldn’t spend 23 years in prison for $93 million.
Quinn claimed that Morehead threatened to charge her with contempt and take away her children if she didn’t testify that McIntyre was the man she saw commit the double homicide.
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People who coerce false testimony need to do serious jail time. 23 years for Morehead should be about right.
Overzealous and corrupt prosecutors.
This country is infested with them.
How the heck did he get connected with the murders to begin with? Something’s not adding up.
Horrible. American justice at its worst.
Eye-witness testimony, a corner stone of American criminal justice, is a very mixed bag. The absence of any corroborating physical evidence is very concerning. As a juror, in the absence of circ’s indicating reliability [it was middle of day, had clear view, was within a rsbl distance, etc] I’m not sure bare eye-wtn testimony is enough for a conviction. Same with ‘all women are to be believed’ in the absence of corroborating evidence nonsense.
Horrible. American justice at its worst.
There are alpha errors, we let some go free who is guilty.
There are beta errors, we imprison someone who is innocent.
There is only one perfect judge.
Actually considered the worst form of testimony/evidence that can be used at a trial.
I like your analysis and suggested solution. This is disgraceful.
Numbers; it’s all about numbers of convictions.
Hell is a innocent man in prison.
And where is Moorhead now? And how is it the sister SAW the murder? Something not right
Regardless whether you are a prosecutor or defense in our adversarial justice system, the object is not justice. The object is to win and advance your career, justice be damned. If that means intimidating witnesses, falsifying or suppressing evidence, jailing the innocent, or freeing the guilty, so be it.
Morehead has since advanced her career from local/county work to become a Federal Prosecutor, with the full force and resources of the Federal Government to crush those she prosecutes. Now, every case she has ever prosecuted is suspect. At a minimum, she should spend 23 years in the exact same prison Lamonte McIntyre spent the prime of his life, and every penny she earned over the past 23 years should be clawed back and given to McIntyre. Her house, car, bank account, 401K, pension, everything.
Having his heirs suffer and hm in jail might send a message to other judges to behave correctly.
Yes, but that makes perfect sense so they won’t do it.
DAs are the incompetent losers who cannot get jobs at decent law firms after their 6th try passing the bar.
Who ever was involved in framing this guy should spend the next 23 years of their life in prison. Or exit on a slab. Which ever comes first.
“Quinn claimed that Morehead threatened to charge her with contempt and take away her children if she didn’t testify that McIntyre was the man she saw commit the double homicide.“
Evil, simply evil.
Yes there are innocent people in jail.
Trump did a lot of work to help free wrongly convicted people.
Another of the many accomplishments that his inept reelection team didn’t campaign on.
They showed her pictures of men named Lamonte.
But not the Lamonte she knew.
Apparently they zeroed in on his because his hairstyle matched one of the ways she said his hair was. But she gave them at least three different hair styles so...
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