Posted on 10/21/2009 11:01:10 AM PDT by TexasCajun
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Seven people pleaded guilty for their part in abusing Megan Williams -- but now Williams says that abuse never happened.
She will hold a press conference Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, to recant her claims of abuse, attorney Byron L. Potts, who represents Williams, told The Charleston Gazette on Tuesday night.
"She has decided she has been living this lie for approximately two years and she has decided to tell the truth," Potts said. "She fabricated the story and she did this in retaliation because she was having a relationship with one of them."
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Megan Williams will hold a press conference Wednesday in Columbus, Ohio, to recant her claims of abuse, attorney Byron L. Potts, who represents Williams, told The Charleston Gazette on Tuesday night.
"She has decided she has been living this lie for approximately two years and she has decided to tell the truth," Potts said. "She fabricated the story and she did this in retaliation because she was having a relationship with one of them."
Something must have happened for those to plead guilty?
I'm betting on another Nifong myself.
Really?
I’m betting she was told to recant.
Or she’d be dead by morning.
They got to her, man.
When you have a public defender you will always be told to plead guilty because you have no hope. PD's don't get paid by the hour or by the outcome but by the number of cases they handle.
Where are Jesse and Al?
7 people pleaded guilty ??
Something is very wrong here.
Yes, people plead guilty to things they haven’t done, all of the time. The prisons are full of them. First, you are arrested and interrogated by the law. The law can legally lie to you and threaten you: they can tell you they have absolute proof; that others have confessed and implicated you; that no jury is gonna believe you over a woman or other accuser, and that you are sure to be convicted; that if you don’t “co-operate” (ie, confess) you will spend the rest of your miserable life in a hell-hole prison. But, (cue the happy music) if you do co-operate (”ie, “confess”) that they’ll give you a deal and instead of 50 to life, you can get off with a meer 15-20 years with good behavior. What do you think that you would you do?
I just noticed you’re from Texas. Try siting is a Texas county criminal court sometime and you are guaranteed to see PD’s asking the judge for release (and payment) every time a defendant has made bail. The assumption being, if you can make bail, you can pay a lawyer. They do this usually right before trial because they know some defendants will cough up some money. It’s all run like a big shakedown and the courts are in on it.
Having seen their house, maybe they thought 3 squares a day in prison was actually an upgrade.
I’m tired or paying for the guilty ones, much more so the innocents.
I think my husband needs to quit telling people his family was from West Virginia at one time....
The information from further along in the article and highlighted in caps above should shed some light on what happened. Mr. Shabazz is quite an “interesting” guy. If you haven't seen him interviewed, you have missed one of the wonders of modern society.
Actually, PDs are paid an annual salary, so they get the same amount no matter how many cases they take. Court appointed attorneys from outside of the PD system, however, are paid by the case and usually do not do as good a job as the PDs.
Wild, Wonderful West Virginia. Yikes.
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