In the original prosecution authorities bought false testimonies of two jailhouse snitches with reduced sentences.
Those false testimonies helped fill the gaps in the prosecution’s weak case. The jurors sent an innocent man to prison for 14 years.
A lot of people need to stay up at night thinking about how their good intentions went wrong.
I was an Air Force JAG for 30 years. The first five were spent first prosecuting, than defending, military members in courts martial. It was my firm belief after that that nobody should be allowed to be a chief of military justice without having been an area defense counsel first. serving as Defense counsel scrapes some of the self-righteousness off of young prosecutors.
“In the original prosecution authorities bought false testimonies of two jailhouse snitches with reduced sentences.”
What has happened or will happen to the two snitches then? I would hope they are re-arrested, rhey serve the time they got reduced off their sentences, they serve another 14 years, the amount of time the innocent guy served, plus 5 additional years for perjury.
False Witness is a major crime at the final judgement.