Posted on 02/09/2014 11:47:07 AM PST by nickcarraway
Someone who doesn’t want to get the death penalty.
I really believe that unless the prosecution has DNA evidence positively connecting the perp to the crime that the death penalty and/or life in prison without parole should be ruled out as options for punishment.
Of course, that wouldn't stop the police from threatening such a thing anyway ... but ignorance is no excuse.
I wonder who the prosecutor was in this case..
When Yarbough got home, he opened the door to find his mother, sister and a close family friend lying stabbed and strangled to death. The two girls were partially undressed.
I realise it's not impossible for an 18 year old kid to kill their own mother and seemingly sexually assault their own sister and cousin...
Did they find the murder weapon, was their blood on his clothes ???
They put these two kids behind bars for life based on them ratting each other out ???
NY Justice system should ashamed of themselves...
Makes one wonder how many other people have been railroaded into hard time to clean a case file out or up a conviction rate...?
Such propaganda pieces are so poorly written, meant to tug at emotion but not provide coherent information.
Now you’re implicating judges and prosecutors in a conspiracy to put innocent people in prison. I’m not saying this never happens, but in this particular case that is just wild speculation unless you have some information that doesn’t appear in any of these media reports.
Whenever a convict is exonerated by DNA or other evidence, an investigation into the behavior of the police, prosecutors, and judges should be opened.
Exactly.. BUT it won’t...
Can’t have the sheeple suspecting the sheep dogs can we..
Even if they have “mutton” on their breath..
Statists will excuse multiple murder by officials while being OUT RAGED at spitting on the sidewalk..
They really must be mentally defective..
Of course, I also believe that a nation that elects people like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama to public office has no business even putting people in jail, let alone executing them. But that's for another thread ...
And just how did that happen? It happened because one or both of them were manipulated by the police to say something that wasn't true, but enabled the police and the prosecutor to bring a charge designed to convict innocents.
I don't consider that to be justice, it is politics masquerading as justice. Thanks for helping to make my point.
Oh come on. DNA typing was in its infancy when these murders were committed. This is a case that shows that when the facts can be mustered the innocent are released.
if you had told me that these men wee excited on someone’s false testimony then we could have a discussion about corruption.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
glad to see you are so all knowing
i guess you are if the Free Mumia persuasion
And sometimes justice isn’t, by design.
Yup.. my son was busted for three felonies for basically sitting on his front stoop...
His drug dealing neighbor was the one they were after...
He lived in the same building and had a small amount of weed in his place...he got lumped together I guess to make a point..
Told him over and over and over the public defender was not going to help him get the charges reduced as she claimed, her job was to process him into the system to extract as much money out of him for probation, drug education classes, anger management sessions (???), court costs.
Unfortunately I was right...it's going to take a lot more money now to clear his felonies then getting a decent lawyer when it first happened...
You see it all the time in drug cases. Back in the 1980s the professional malcontents in places like Brooklyn, NY were complaining that the police and the courts had to "do something" about a rampant problem with crack cocaine. Then, after the entire machinery of legal system and law enforcement was put into place to "do something" about the problem by cleaning the streets, the same professional malcontents complained that stiff sentences for drug possession was making victims out of the nation's permanent underclass.
There's no fixing this kind of problem.
Just about the most stupid comment that I’ve heard on FR in some time. I think that they give gold medals for leaping to those kinds of conclusions.
Tell that to the widows
your arguments are EXACTLY what people use to try and free people that they agree with politically. You jumped to soooo many conclusions in your comments that all I can do is shake my head.
Keep trying though
They need to expose who the prosecutors were. Some liberal prosecutors will put anyone in jail to build their careers.
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