Sounds like a railroad job........................
Al Jazeera? No thanks.That alone causes me to suspect that this is just another “I didn do nuthin’”
prosecutors are in the job of prosecuting... sometimes they forget the justice part.
[Williams was convicted of killing Gayle, 42, at her home in the gated Ames Place neighborhood on Aug. 11, 1998. The prosecution said Williams was burglarizing the home when Gayle, who had been taking a shower, surprised him. She fought for her life as she was stabbed repeatedly.]
One FReeper said he keeps his pistol nearby even when he is in the shower.
Al Jazeera keepin’ it real...
Yeah I’m sure homey is innocent. /s
State of Missouri vs. Marcellus Williams
Case Facts:
On August 11, 1998, Williams drove his grandfather’s Buick LeSabre to a bus stop and caught a bus to University City. Once there, he began looking for a house to break into. Williams came across the home of Felicia Gayle.
He knocked on the front door but no one answered. Williams then knocked out a window pane near the door, reached in, unlocked the door, and entered Gayle’s home. He went to the second floor and heard water running in the shower. It was Gayle. Williams went back downstairs, rummaged through the kitchen, found a large butcher knife, and waited.
Gayle left the shower and called out, asking if anyone was there. She came down the stairs. Williams attacked, stabbing and cutting Gayle forty-three times, inflicting seven fatal wounds.
Afterwards, Williams went to an upstairs bathroom and washed off. He took a jacket and put it on to conceal the blood on his shirt. Before leaving, Williams placed Gayle’s purse and her husband’s laptop computer and black carrying case in his backpack. The purse contained, among other things, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch ruler and a calculator. Williams left out the front door and caught a bus back to the Buick.
After returning to the car, Williams picked up his girlfriend, Laura Asaro. Asaro noticed that, despite the summer heat, Williams was wearing a jacket. When he removed the jacket, Asaro noticed that Williams’ shirt was bloody and that he had scratches on his neck. Williams claimed he had been in a fight. Later in the day, Williams put his bloody clothes in his backpack and threw them into a sewer drain, claiming he no longer wanted them.
Asaro also saw a laptop computer in the car. A day or two after the murder, Williams sold the laptop to Glenn Roberts.
The next day, Asaro went to retrieve some clothes from the trunk of the car. Williams did not want her to look in the trunk and tried to push her away. Before he could, Asaro snatched a purse from the trunk. She looked inside and found Gayle’s Missouri state identification card and a black coin purse.
Asaro demanded that Williams explain why he had Gayle’s purse. Williams then confessed that the purse belonged to a woman he had killed. He explained in detail how he went into the kitchen, found a butcher knife, and waited for the woman to get out of the shower.
He further explained that when the woman came downstairs from the shower, he stabbed her in the arm and then put his hand over her mouth and stabbed her in the neck, twisting the knife as he went. After relaying the details of the murder, Williams grabbed Asaro by the throat and threatened to kill her, her children and her mother if she told anyone.
On August 31, 1998, Williams was arrested on unrelated charges and incarcerated at the St. Louis City workhouse. From April until June 1999, Williams shared a room with Henry Cole. One evening in May, Cole and Williams were watching television and saw a news report about Gayle’s murder. Shortly after the news report, Williams told Cole that he had committed the crime. Over the next few weeks, Cole and Williams had several conversations about the murder. As he had done with Laura Asaro, Williams went into considerable detail about how he broke into the house and killed Gayle.
After Cole was released from jail in June 1999, he went to the University City police and told them about Williams’ involvement in Gayle’s murder. He reported details of the crime that had never been publicly reported.
In November of 1999, University City police approached Asaro to speak with her about the murder. Asaro told the police that Williams admitted to her that he had killed Gayle. The next day, the police searched the Buick LeSabre and found the Post-Dispatch ruler and calculator belonging to Gayle. The police also recovered the laptop computer from Glenn Roberts. The laptop was identified as the one stolen from Gayle’s residence.
Williams was tried for Gayle’s murder and convicted.
If there is new DNA evidence, it should be examined. The worst thing that could happen for those of us who support the death penalty is that an innocent be executed.
Take that garbage off.
The article is purely from the vantage point of the defense. The issue is raised over how prosecutors dismissed all but one of the potential black jurors. Guess what. Attorneys on both sides have the right to ask questions and dismiss potential jurors. Who knows the specific reasons a lawyer does so? But, as a percentage of the US population, one or two black jurors is about the average.
The job of juries is to pursue justice. Not social justice. Not racial justice. Just justice. Societal ills are not supposed to be under consideration. Fairness is not the issue. It’s justice.
Anyone who thinks that a colorblind jury is not possible is also incapable of believing in or supporting a colorblind society and the full equality of human beings without regard to race.
Those who reject these basic principles of our free republic, need to extricate themselves from it.
Al Jezeera as your soyrce plus you leave no comment?
Just wow
An injustice can't be undone after the Death Penalty is imposed.
And a lot more people get railroaded by the "Justice" system than anyone is willing to admit.
I mean, how many examples do we have to be presented with before we acknowledge that fact?
Several items belonging to the victim were found in Williams' car by police after the murder. Also, her laptop was sold by Williams to an acquaintance.
Taking out the DNA and eyewitness testimony, Williams clearly was involved in some aspects of the crime. Was he the killer, or an accomplice? Who knows, but this is definitely not a case of mistaken identity. A weak prosecution case? Maybe.