(See the update below) Idaho Falls resident Christopher Tapp has spent more than two decades behind bars for a murder he did not commit. He was convicted on the basis of a confession extracted from him through psychological torture -- a fact that even the Bonneville County Prosecutor's Office has now grudgingly conceded. Now Bonneville County Prosecutor Danny Clark is reportedly seeking a face-saving plea bargain on the eve of a judicial hearing that would exonerate Tapp. No physical evidence or eyewitness testimony connected Tapp to the scene of the June 1996 murder of 18-year-old Angie...
Christopher Tapp
The Slow-Motion State Murder of Michael Whiteley
Facing the prospect of life in prison – and the plausible threat of execution – Idaho Falls resident Michael Whiteley had every conceivable reason to plead guilty to a charge of second-degree kidnapping, save one: He didn’t commit the crime. “I have to plead not guilty, Your Honor,” Whiteley told Bonneville County District Judge Marvin Smith just minutes after being offered a plea bargain through which he would have avoided prison altogether. “I had originally intended to plead the other way, but now that I sit here and run it through my heart and my mind, I don’t feel, your honor, that...
12/7/16 Will Grigg on the wrongful imprisonment of Christopher Tapp for a murder he didn’t commit
Will Grigg, the Managing Editor of The Libertarian Institute, discusses the nineteen year wrongful imprisonment of Christopher Tapp for the 1996 murder of Angie Dodge in Idaho Falls; and why Angie's mother Carol is convinced Tapp was railroaded by the police and prosecutors and that Angie's murderer remains at large.
‘Justice Has No Expiration Date’: The Continued Wrongful Imprisonment of Christopher Tapp
There were about twenty people gathered in an Idaho Falls courtroom on November 22 for a hearing about Christopher Tapp’s appeal for post-conviction relief. That Tapp is serving a life sentence for a murder he didn’t commit was known by everyone in that room. Two of them, Bonneville County Prosecuting Attorney Daniel Clark and deputy Prosecutor John Dewey, were there in an attempt to convince Judge Alan Stephens that the truth didn’t matter, and that justice must be subordinated to “process.” Judge Stephens’s proper role, Dewey argued, was to act as a “gatekeeper,” rather than to permit a...
Freedom Zealot Podcast September 10, 2016
A report commissioned by the Bonneville County, Idaho DA confirms what has long been known: Christopher Tapp didn't murder Angie Dodge, and his "confession" was extorted from him by Idaho Falls Police detectives who weren't interested in the truth.
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