Posted on 03/04/2018 10:58:30 AM PST by ARGLOCKGUY
A former Harris County prosecutor withheld a key email that helped establish a clear alibi for Alfred Dewayne Brown in the high-profile murder case that eventually sent him to death row, District Attorney Kim Ogg said late Friday.
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That is attempted murder by the DA.
Agreed.
This is kind of confusing - did the email clearly establish the innocence or guilt of the individual who eventually ended up on death row? And would withholding such evidence have saved him from death row or sent him to death row earlier?
By the prosecutor and investigator.
Both lied and withheld the evidence.
There is no evidence that the DA in 2005 or in 2014 was aware of it.
He got released from death row and is out of prison. He has not been ruled innocent.
Another man was also convicted in the crime.
I don’t know all of the details on this case. I vaguely remember something from 2014 when the phone records in the investigator’s garage came to light. Why couldn’t more phone records have been requested? They were obtained and then no one else could make the request?
Kim Ogg is Soros’ financed Houston DA.
This case is a civil suit aimed at Harris Country taxpayers, not a criminal suit against the retired prosecutor who hid evidence and apparently lied to the court. It is also not a criminal proceeding against the investigator who had the records and sent an email that they corroborated the timeline of the defendant’s alibi.
“At the time Brown’s conviction was challenged, the prosecution and defense agreed the failure to disclose the phone records was ‘inadvertent,’” the DA’s office wrote in a news release that included a copy of the email. “The new evidence suggests, however, that well before Brown’s trial, Rizzo was informed about the existence of the records, yet failed to disclose or provide them to the defense counsel or the jury.”
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Another “Nifong” D.A.
This sort of thing should lead to immediate disbarment, loss of law license, and a minimum of 5 years in le hoosegow.
Kim Ogg is Soros’ financed Houston DA.
Oh hell, that says alot. I think she’s been running for DA for as long as I can remember. She finally won but Houston is for the most part “diverse” and left-leaning and this has come full circle. Same thing with the Harris County Sheriff........glad I don’t live there anymore.
The ousted DA was no dream either, she was behind the decision to prosecute the filmmakers who exposed Planned Parenthood’s fetal organ sales and ignored the crimes of PP to focus of “faked identities”.
Does 60 Minutes get charged when they send in an undercover reporter to catch admissions from crooked businessmen?
That’s only in movies.
DAs are corrupt AF and seek to close cases.
The Harris County crime lab convicted scores of people on falsified lab reports for DWI cases.
arrest Rizzo and put him on death row for 10 years.
How about putting the prosecutor on death row? Seems fair.
Agree. Dirty cops and lawyers, who turn the law against those they are sworn to serve and protect, deserve the maximum.
God I hate prosecuters.
That was an Old Testament bible norm. But again, prosecutions were not the top heavy undertakings they are now. Now we are dependent on elites, and of course they are protected eight ways from Sunday from taking a fall.
You need to preface that with, "in Theory".
There have always been prosecutors who saw their job as having a very high number of convictions, often refusing to go to court at all but instead always making deals that resulted in any kind of conviction whatsoever.
The reason you hear about things like this so often now days is that most prosecutors see their job as getting a very high conviction rate as a means to run for higher office and feather their nest by serving all "the right people".
The legal system in this country has totally gone to Hell with greedy, immoral, attorneys in charge of operating the bullet train to Hell.
Triple the maximum.
At a minimum. Absolute minimum.
HOUSTON — A former Texas judge and prosecutor agreed to serve nine days in jail and surrender his law license Friday for withholding evidence in his prosecution of a man who was exonerated in 2011 after serving 25 years in prison for his wife’s murder.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-texas-judge-20131109-story.html
Had a lot of that going on in Texas. I think this is the first one sentenced to a whopping nine days in jail!
I saw a documentary about a prosecutor in Louisiana that had sent several innocent men to death row, finally caught up with his shenanigans before another one was executed. He had notches on a belt in his office for every death sentence he got.
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