Posted on 09/11/2018 8:40:04 AM PDT by mac_truck
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - The discovery of a black Lab named Lucy led to the unravelling of a criminal case Monday against an Oregon man who had begun serving a 50-year prison sentence.
Joshua Horner, a plumber from the central Oregon town of Redmond, was convicted on April 12, 2017, of sexual abuse of a minor.
In the trial, the complainant testified Horner had threatened to shoot her animals if she went to the police about the alleged molestation, and said she saw him shoot her dog, killing it, to make his point.
Six months after a jury convicted Horner in a verdict that was not unanimous, he asked the Oregon Innocence Project for help. The group took up his case.
When the group raised concerns in April about the case with Deschutes County District Attorney John Hummel, he agreed to work with them.
Horner had insisted he never shot the dog. Finding the dog would show the complainant had lied under oath. But if it was alive, where was it?
(Excerpt) Read more at kron4.com ...
If the dog was in the same household as Horner that means the victim was too. I am guessing the “victim” was the daughter of Horner’s girlfriend at the time. Her mom gave away the dog. Now the mom must have known her daughter lied about the dog being killed which leads me to conclude either she choose to ignore that the molestation was also a lie. The other choices are that she conspired with her daughter to frame Horner or she believed he was guilty and thought the story about the dog would insure a conviction. I’d go with the first.
Ex-girlfriend...and mother of the Horner's daughter, who is the child he allegedly abused.
She gave the dog away and testified that Horner killed it.
Thanks. I thought it was a stepdaughter or his girlfriend’s daughter not his biological child. Was this in the news?
Give both women the same sentence the guy got for them lying about it. It’s only fair. These two are predators who need to be removed from civil society.
What happened to reasonable doubt anyway. No proof. Not rape kit done. Nothing. Just the word of these two lying sacks of dung.
I thought for criminal cases it had to be unanimous?
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I thought so too.
I would like to read a story in the future how the ex-girlfriend ends up in jail for lying and coaching her daughter to lie. I suggest the same penalty he would have gotten.
Oh yeah. Me too.
There was a time when if you perjured and lied about someone committing a crime, and it was discovered, your punishment would be the punishment that the accused would have faced.
So, if the crime you falsely accused someone would result in an execution, your punishment for perjury i that case would be to be executed.
Me, three. Makes me ashamed of those women who should have served jail time. But you know, Oregon, is now a blue state with Reds only in the country. Pitiful. I hope all Republicans vote this year and overwhelm those Blue Ticks.
I think our modern journalists are too busy learning victim heirarchies and white guilt to be bothered with learning how to answer the 5 Ws in a story.
Thanks
What state do you think she lives in? There is a Redmond, OR (near Bend)
I thought it was Washington, next door.................
The verdict has to be unanimous in federal criminal prosecutions; verdicts with less than unanimity (such as 9 out of 12) in state prosecutions have been found not to violate the 5th or 6th Amendments as incorporated against the states.
Thanks, yes, I’ve learned a lot about non-unanimous juries in the U.S. in this thread.
I must say that is one lucky guy for sure.
I inferred that his ex-girlfriend had a daughter that made the accusation.
My guess is the complainant is the ex-girlfriends teenage daughter. The article is trying to avoid identifying the accuser.
That’s a poorly written article. Probably a millenial, a graduate of our new-Ed.
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Are you kidding? It’s local TV journalism. A journalism school dropout from the junior college?
Overqualified.
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