Prison justice is all that is left. That thug should have died for his crime.
Posted on 07/11/2023 7:56:04 AM PDT by rod5591
The e-mail was about Chanel Lewis, whom I wrote about in a 2022 article for The Nation, “When The NYPD Gets Desperate.” In 2019, Lewis was convicted of the 2016 murder of Karina Vetrano. In my piece, I confirmed that during the Vetrano homicide investigation the NYPD illegally used a private and secretive DNA lab to conduct unproven forensics and then failed to disclose it during Lewis’s first trial, which ended in a mistrial, or his second, which ended in a life sentence. “We have recently received some disturbing reports about his circumstances,” Scaife wrote.
The information in the June 1 call was in line with a letter that Lewis himself sent to CANY last fall alleging that he was being mistreated at Great Meadow and asking for advocacy and media attention in order to change his living conditions.
Lewis was being held in Great Meadow’s Behavioral Health Unit (BHU), which has its own negative reputation beyond that of the prison. Per a Department of Corrections and Community Supervision (DOCCS) manual, the BHU is “a program that provides services to a target population of inmate-patients currently diagnosed as Seriously Mentally Ill, who have demonstrated a history of treatment resistance and poor custodial adjustment/behavior.” According to Scaife, “It tends to be a place where incarcerated people who have been unsuccessful in many other mental health disciplinary units” end up. Scaife says she’s heard DOCCS staff describe people in the BHU as “management problems.”
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The author goes on at great length to describe the rapist/murderer of Karina Vetrano as further victimized by his harsh prison conditions.
Personally I think he should have been executed for what he did to his victim. I don't mind one single bit if he is now paying the price for his crimes. Also, a prisoner is not put into solitary confinement without a good reason.
A lot of this story is missing which, for me, makes the whole narrative suspect.
A violent incorrigible sociopath is uncomfortable in prison.
Evil scum liberals looking for sympathy for a rapist murderer. The trial was an absolute disgrace with all the NYC race hustlers chiming in as the the defense tried to blame the father.
Prison justice is all that is left. That thug should have died for his crime.
During my time in my church’s prison ministry I had occasion to discuss living conditions and quality of food many times with inmates.......one comment that always stuck with me:
“Well, it’s not supposed to be Holiday Inn”.
I suspect this is just a liberal lawyer looking for sympathy from a potential future jury pool.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/chanel-lewis-karina-vetrano-nypd/
Guy's DNA matched DNA found on the victime. The torturous article then says that it may have been taken illegally.
It’s crucial to remember that, right now, innocence or guilt isn’t the question.
It's a question that I have.
This from the article above. My GUESS would be this is a family member who wants the killer out of prison so he can extract his own revenge.
What is interesting is even though the guy is guilty, the protesters show up. Where are the protesters during the hundreds of gang-banger murder trials?
Why support this guy? It's because they believe that black people should be able to kill white people without consequence.
Well it’s The Nation.
This article reeks of the desperation to arrest and convict “the guy”. Does anyone know how easy it is to frame someone? DNA evidence can be taken, then planted on a subject. Or it can just be lied about.
I am no bleeding heart, but confessions are not cut and dried. When I was in 4th grade I was detained. Taken from school without my parents knowledge. A house on our paper route had been broken into, furniture damaged, flour dumped out on the floor etc. The cops first questioned my brother who was in 1st grade, this was in school, then moved on to me. My brother said, “sure we go there all the time”. They asked me in a private room questions, the cops put their guns on the table in front of me while doing it. I told them nothing I can remember, but they then placed me in a cruiser, where my older brother was, he was 15. They took us to the Police station separated us, and questioned us. I confessed 3 different times. I refused to sign the confessions, and changed my story every time. Locking a boy up can do that to you. By the time my parents came to the police station, it was 7 PM. A Detective who knew my Dad, called him. My parents were frantic. WE WERE JUST GONE in my parents eyes.
We simply delivered the paper to this house, day after day, for years. We never went into the house. This was 1962 or so. Who would even think about breaking into a house? We simply wanted to do the job, get to DQ where we traded a paper for Dilly Bars, or the bakery where we traded papers for donuts every day.
People just don’t know what it is like to be a kid, or mentally disabled and be “leaned on”. Reality becomes the story you have just been told.
I do know one thing, there is no way the arrest or conviction of Chanel Lewis was on the up and up. Read through the links of the case. Even if guilty, we shouldn’t treat people like this. We can’t fix a broken country, by treating those in the care of government, like a forgotten pet rat in a cage.
Yep.
There are cases where a bad confession, planted or manipulated evidence or Brady violations led to a wrong conviction.
This isn’t one of those cases. Even his “legitimate” supporters say it was a potential constitutional violation that led to the conviction, and the question isn’t whether he was innocent or guilty.
I think that law enforcement should follow the law, and if a technical violation frees a criminal, than so be it.
But in this case if someone came to me looking for a donation for his legal defense, my question to them would be: “Was he guilty of not?” If he was, then I wouldn’t give them a dime. I wouldn’t want want to participate in getting a known brutal killer back on the street.
IMO the DP should be the standard sentence for first degree murder.
Checked my Trying to Care meter, it’s still pegged on Don’t Care.
That’s funny!
Ill take color for 500 ted
“It is just about certain he was the killer, due to the DNA match. His supporters are saying it might have been a casual transfer, but that doesn’t add up. What is interesting is even though the guy is guilty, the protesters show up. Where are the protesters during the hundreds of gang-banger murder trials? Why support this guy? It’s because they believe that black people should be able to kill white people without consequence.”
You are exactly right. It is open season on white people and they should wake up to the fact and be prepared to defend themselves and their families at all times. I don’t think it is safe for white people in public anywhere, especially young people and teens. Yet clueless parents are blind to the dangerous situations their children are in on a daily basis.
And if you do defend yourself or your family - the Soros prosecutor is going to come after you.
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