Prosecutorial Legerdemain
The Bill of Particulars is a document, prepared and sworn to under oath by the prosecution (ie, The Commonwealth) and filed with the court. The bill discloses the evidence the prosecution intends to...
View ArticleThe Art of Cross Examination (Part 7) The Killer Cross That Never Happened
Author’s Note: This is the final part of the Killer Cross. After the conclusion, I will discuss the real reasons why we believe Chris McNeill refused to use it. 120. Q: Deputy McGuire, I presume you do...
View ArticleThe Decision From Hell (Part 1)
The Kentucky State Court of Appeals issued its decision affirming Crane Station’s conviction on January 21, 2011. Her motion for reconsideration was summarily denied without an explanation. Her motion...
View ArticleThe Decision From Hell (Part 3)
In Part 1 of this series of posts about the decision from hell, as I have come to call it, I criticized the first part of the Kentucky State Court of Appeals decision in Crane Station’s case. That part...
View ArticleForensic Fraud (Part 2)
As I said yesterday in Part 1, One of the biggest problems we’ve seen in crime labs is people testifying as experts regarding matters beyond their expertise. This happened in Crane-Station’s case when...
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