The nation’s most inaccurate murder prosecutor?
District Attorney Forrest Allgood oversees a fairly small prosecutor’s office; his office has just five attorneys covering four counties. Allgood has now convicted at least three people of murders they didn’t commit in three separate homicides. The Associated Press is now beginning to weigh the results of an unholy trinity between a shady medical examiner — Dr. Steven Hayne, (whose work is quickly becoming notorious among the states of the Gulf Coast), bite mark “expert” Dr. Michael West, and Allgood. Allgood now describes the results of the trinity’s work as a “trainwreck.” The wrongful convictions include one death row inmate and a 13 year-old of murder.
Sunday, 2. March 2008 19:05
and possibly a 4th, Brett Jones, just turned 15. “Dr” Hayne’s so called expert testimony claimed he knew what a defensive wound looked like even though the boy was claiming he was attacked by a much bigger man with mental illness who was in a rage and who family members had reported dementia and PTSD as well as possible Alzheimer’s. He took no brain tissue during the autopsy. He testified and passed off his opinion to the jury as if he was there. He also claimed that a kitchen fillet knife has been bent hitting bone and cartilage, even though the boy said it was already bent. “Dr” Hayne is an equal opportunity destroyer irregardless whether your a poor black man or a poor white child.
Sunday, 2. March 2008 22:01
The truly sad part is, I didn’t know of Brett Jones, however, I do know of 4 other cases now under review.
You would do well to contact Radley Balko at the Agitator.com, if you haven’t already, as he has been spearheading an exceptional effort on Hayne.
Tuesday, 4. March 2008 19:39
Whoopsie. Mistakes happen dontcha know?
Tuesday, 4. March 2008 22:13
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