On COI #199, Patrick MacFarlane - host of Liberty Weekly - joins Kyle Anzalone to break down Chrystul Kizer's self-defense claim. Kizer maintains she was the victim of sexual abuse and killed her abuser. A new Wisconsin law is allowing her to make a self-defense claim at her trial, in which she was initially denied the ability to make the defense. Pat and Kyle break down past wrongful convictions. Kevin Strickland spent over four decades in prison after police intimidated a witness into wrongfully identifying him as a murderer. After a long struggle, Strickland was exonerated. However,...
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Kamala Harris Says ‘We All End Up in the Same Place’
Recently Kamala Harris tweeted a video where she's talking nonsense about "equity" and "equality" -- pandering to the left's progressives -- which ends with her saying, “equitable treatment means we all end up in the same place." End up at the same place. Well, it's Kamala Harris ... so we can deduce that she's talking about jail. We all end up in jail. "A cell for you, a cell for you, and a cell for you! Everyone gets a cell!" The Trump train has been working overtime to paint Kamala Harris as the most radical left-leaning figure in the Democratic party, but this is a misstep: it's...
Prosecutors: The Worst Criminals in Our Society
From the Center on Wrongful Convictions (Imagine for a moment that this was about your mom or sister or wife): We are writing with the wonderful news that we have come to the end of the long road towards the exoneration of Ernestine “Tina” Jimerson, the first case that came to what was then the Center on Wrongful Convictions Women’s Project. On Thursday, the Dallas County Circuit Court signed an order dismissing Tina’s case on a motion from the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office! We have circulated the details of this complex case several times, so we won’t re-tell them here. But as a...
Wrongful Use or Threat of Capital Prosecutions: Official misconduct by police and/or prosecutors is the leading cause
Official misconduct by police and prosecutors and perjured testimony (not errors) are the number one contributing factor to wrongful homicide convictions according to data from the The Death Penalty Information Center. The report summarizes data from the National Registry of Exonerations annual report on wrongful convictions. In 2018, they recorded a record 151 new exonerations across the United States, including 68 exonerations resulting from wrongful homicide convictions. Two of those exonerations freed death-row prisoners. A record number of the exonerations in 2018 were the product...
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...
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