Posted on 01/28/2020 11:50:38 PM PST by nickcarraway
A high-profile case prosecuted by Amy Klobuchar when she was a top Minnesota county attorney has come under fire — with questions arising over whether the teen her office put behind bars for life is actually guilty.
Findings from an investigation conducted by the Associated Press challenge the 17-year-old case that the presidential hopeful has promoted to show her commitment to racial justice.
Myon Burrell, who is black and was 16-years-old in 2002, was convicted for firing a stray shot that killed 11-year-old Tyesha Edwards, who is also black, as she was doing homework at her dining room table in Minneapolis.
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Maybe Amy’s “aim” was off on this case. If so, she owes an innocent man a lot of money and of course the taxpayers will pay it, not her.
Amy “Rush to Judgment” Klobucar?
uh oh
If not this crime, probably guilty of something else in the past or the future. Glad he’s off the streets.
The information given about the case is quite damning for the authorities.
However, given that the victim and all the possible perpetrators, including the young man probably convicted wrongly, are black, I struggle to see a “racism” angle. I could see things going very similarly if everyone involved were white, Latino, or Asian.
Prosecutors build their careers on the backs of people who do not fight back. Many of them are innocent, but add to the prosecutor’s resume.
Amy Klobuchar Put a Teen Behind Bars for Life -- But Was He Innocent?
That's the wrong question. The measure of prosecutors is "did she get a conviciton?" Yes is a plus, no is a minus.
If an innocent person is found guilty, that's on the jury.
Jury's need to realize that prosecutors are by and large dishonest, numbers-driven hacks.
Police failed to obtain surveillance video from a convenience store that could either have confirmed Burrell’s alibi or shown him a liar.
His defense att’y also failed, but it might have been wiped by the time a defense investigation began.
Prosecutors have the deep pockets of the state and the alliance of the principal investigators. That puts an extraordinary moral
...burden on the prosecution to seek the truth, but too often they seek to make the case as you say.
Klobuchar also had a scam prosecution of then Northwest Airlines pilots.
“Prosecutors build their careers on the backs of people who do not fight back.”
Mike Nifong (of the Duke lacrosse case) was a classic example.
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