[Publius Valerius]

The quesation is, can the future victim's family sue the judges on the ISC for releasing McCoy on such phoney grounds??

On such phoney grounds? Are you kidding? Just grabbing someone off the street and then dragging them into the police station without ANY cause whatsoever is phoney grounds?

Like it or not, we do have a constitution and the police are obligated the follow the rules when conducting investigations. This is stupid police work. Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. Stupid. Stupid!

I've begun to read the opinion, and this is a slam dunk. Iowa police, do your job right next time and we won't have these problems.

[DustyMoment]

On such phoney grounds? Are you kidding? Just grabbing someone off the street and then dragging them into the police station without ANY cause whatsoever is phoney grounds?

Based on what is in the "news release" (not much), we don't know the circumstances that led to him being taken in for questioning.

An assumption has been made that he was merely Mr. Average Citizen going about his business when he was hauled down to the police station for no reason and this admission emerged. The reporting in this story is pure crap, for starters, because the "reporter" was too lazy to give us the whole story.

So, here's what we know and/or can surmise: McCoy was taken in for questioning. He confessed to participating in the murder. He was charged and tried before a jury of his peers who found him guilty and sentenced him to prison. The jury found substantial grounds, presumably based upon the evidnce, to convict him. In essence, the SC has found that he was convicted on a technicality so, "no crime, no foul".

Sorry, there's still a victim whose family deserves justice. Based on the LACK of facts in this story, we don't know who really got any justice whatsoever.