Posted on 12/19/2002 8:31:51 AM PST by marktuoni
State Justice Charles Tejada, moving more quickly than defense lawyers and prosecutors had expected, dismissed all indictments against the five less than a week before Christmas. His ruling wasn't expected until Jan. 6.
The decision came two weeks after Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau recommending dropping all the convictions in the case.
The decision to dismiss the indictments means prosecutors would have to start from scratch with a grand jury to retry the five.
Tejeda's decision came after lawyers from the police detectives' union unsuccessfully tried to block his ruling. The Detectives' Endowment Association wanted an evidentiary hearing first, said attorney Philip Karsyk.
The primary evidence in the case had been confessions made to detectives.
Supporters of the accused have said those statements were coerced. All five were between the ages of 14 and 16 when they were arrested in connection with the April 19, 1989, attack.
No forensic evidence linked any of them to the crime scene. In addition, there was a DNA match with a serial rapist who came forward earlier this year to confess to the jogger attack.
And you also seem to think highly of "confessions". You know about as much about police and juries as you do about reading and comprehension. Nil
No help was gained because I have no idea what your post means.
Yep, in Manhattan, I have run into some real winners at the Post Office, the DMV and the library. Dim bulbs with nasty, hostile attitudes (toward everyone, but particularly whites). Once, at the 34th street Motor Vehicles, one was playing rap on a boom box so loud -- right there on the counter -- that me and all the other customers at her window couldn't even hear ourselves over that garbage, and had to yell back and forth to communicate. Of course, she refused to turn the blasted thing off, or even turn it down. The supervisor on site did nothing.
Weird. Maybe those kids just mugged her and beat her half to death, left her to die, and the unknown, unnamed serial rapist came along....?
Weird.
Yes, and if I'm not mistaken, 1970 follows 1968, and so if something happened in 1970, that would follow President Nixon's election in 1968.
I was pointing that this Judge is drawing a lot of attention to President Nixon and himeself for a some unexplained reason in his bio. The man quit his job in January 1970 and President Nixon was elected in 1968. Why bring up the point unless there is some connection or event? Otherwise, these are two facts that may not have have anything remotely in common. How are we to know without additional information.
Heck, I lived on the same planet as President Nixon from 1970 until he died and I won't put that fact in my autobiography. Big Deal
Jriemer
I'm not an expert on fairies, but all the fairies I have known were male.
And once again you, not I, posited that these indivduals were "innocent." There was never any reference to they being "not guilty." The only body that can dispense that term, namely their jury, came out with a definiative GUILTY.
And your assertion is based upon what?
And let's go one better - how would you solve this "problem?"
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LOL, great stuff. When you disagree with anyone, call them a DU poster. LOL,, man you got the drill down to a tee.
And once again you, not I, posited that these indivduals were "innocent."
Repeating the same falsehood over and over never makes it true. And putting it inside quotation marks doesn't either.
There was never any reference to they being "not guilty." The only body that can dispense that term, namely their jury, came out with a definiative GUILTY.
There are only two legal states, guilty and not guilty. The guilty verdict has been thrown out. That leaves the obvious, not guilty until proven otherwise.
Perhaps you would be more comfortable posting at an AOL chatroom, where you would be among your intellectual equals. LOL
Once more, you lie.
I do not and hopefully a jury will reconvict them of the beating attack.
I do too, if they are guilty.
That's why my "service piece" is a Browning Hi-Power -- it's a solid chunk of steel that can be used as a club if necessary. The dogleg .45 is even better for this.
BTW, nice pics on your site!
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