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2 weeks ago
in Lets Get Free: Do we blame the hunter or the wolf? on The Intersection of Madness And Reality
From Georgians For Alternatives to the Death Penalty -
Call DA Larry Chisolm! If the Supreme Court chooses not to intervene, the Chatham County District Attorney will have to decide whether to pursue justice, or an execution warrant. Call his office at 912-652-7308 and let them know you would like the DA the re-open Troy's case. If you live in Georgia or Chatham County, tell them you're a concerned resident. But remember, you do NOT need to be a resident to take this action! Please spread this far and wide so the DA's office knows Troy has national support.
Call 912-652-7308 and ask that Troy's case be re-opened!
Call DA Larry Chisolm! If the Supreme Court chooses not to intervene, the Chatham County District Attorney will have to decide whether to pursue justice, or an execution warrant. Call his office at 912-652-7308 and let them know you would like the DA the re-open Troy's case. If you live in Georgia or Chatham County, tell them you're a concerned resident. But remember, you do NOT need to be a resident to take this action! Please spread this far and wide so the DA's office knows Troy has national support.
Call 912-652-7308 and ask that Troy's case be re-opened!
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3 weeks ago
in Lets Get Free: Do we blame the hunter or the wolf? on The Intersection of Madness And Reality
A) I've read blog and article comments that say Troy was convicted of shooting a person prior to MacPhail. And Spencer Lawton Jr., the previous DA, also alludes to this.
But this is as tainted as everything in Troy's case - no physical evidence, police pressure on witnesses, recantations ignored by the courts because of passed deadlines/not filed in the right order, and the original trial defense hampered by funding cuts to indigent defense that resulted in bare minimum representation.
B) How Un-American that our country leads the world in imprisoning our citizens. Improving schools, community ties, and social services reduce crime. Building more prisons only perpetuates injustice and creates more criminals.
A recent study of criminologists strongly refutes the idea that the death penalty acts as a deterrent on crime.
But this is as tainted as everything in Troy's case - no physical evidence, police pressure on witnesses, recantations ignored by the courts because of passed deadlines/not filed in the right order, and the original trial defense hampered by funding cuts to indigent defense that resulted in bare minimum representation.
B) How Un-American that our country leads the world in imprisoning our citizens. Improving schools, community ties, and social services reduce crime. Building more prisons only perpetuates injustice and creates more criminals.
A recent study of criminologists strongly refutes the idea that the death penalty acts as a deterrent on crime.
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Darnell -
Do you notice that NO MATTER HOW MANY DEAD BODIES THERE ARE......everyone is INNOCENT? ......if you allow some people to tell it.
The key variable, it seems, is the arrangement of the DEAD and the ACCUSED KILLER.
Let a Black man be killed by a White cop - and the authorities HAD BETTER find somebody to pin this on in blue or there is going to be hell to pay.
In this case a POLICE MAN was killed and some operatives need to see a video where Troy Davis was seen pulling the trigger and a free trip to the actual murder scene to prove that it is not a movie studio set before they will agree.
Let me be clear - I do not want a GUILTY MAN imprisoned or executed for a crime that he did not commit.
At the same time I am NOT willing to stand on some abstract perch and work hard to EXPLAIN AWAY the preponderance of evidence because I saw "CSI Miami" last night and in Troy Davis case everything does not fit together as smoothly as I watch on television.
This is why "REASONABLE DOUBT" and the "Preponderance of Evidence" are the legal measures rather than ABSOLUTE certainly, with the prosecution having laid to rest all of the flack and diversions that the defense has thrown up.
Are you saying that the Black man who was shot earlier in the night - Michael Cooper is a fabrication?
I already explained the deal to you.
The Troy Davis Excuse Committee cannot allow the entirety of the evening to be brought in for consideration. They need to have the trial be about the scene in which the cop was shot and the witnesses that recanted. In leaving everything else out - we have a case of JUDICIAL RAILROADING and POLICE MISCONDUCT by engineering witnesses.
Far be it from me to ask you to consider that Mrs McPhal, the officers widow is a real human being. Where as her young husband and father of her children was forced to work extra hours doing security detail to enhance the family income - her husband was taken from her and her children.
What JUSTICE does she deserve in addition to the JUSTICE that you and others ask for for Troy Davis?
Do you notice that NO MATTER HOW MANY DEAD BODIES THERE ARE......everyone is INNOCENT? ......if you allow some people to tell it.
The key variable, it seems, is the arrangement of the DEAD and the ACCUSED KILLER.
Let a Black man be killed by a White cop - and the authorities HAD BETTER find somebody to pin this on in blue or there is going to be hell to pay.
In this case a POLICE MAN was killed and some operatives need to see a video where Troy Davis was seen pulling the trigger and a free trip to the actual murder scene to prove that it is not a movie studio set before they will agree.
Let me be clear - I do not want a GUILTY MAN imprisoned or executed for a crime that he did not commit.
At the same time I am NOT willing to stand on some abstract perch and work hard to EXPLAIN AWAY the preponderance of evidence because I saw "CSI Miami" last night and in Troy Davis case everything does not fit together as smoothly as I watch on television.
This is why "REASONABLE DOUBT" and the "Preponderance of Evidence" are the legal measures rather than ABSOLUTE certainly, with the prosecution having laid to rest all of the flack and diversions that the defense has thrown up.
Are you saying that the Black man who was shot earlier in the night - Michael Cooper is a fabrication?
I already explained the deal to you.
The Troy Davis Excuse Committee cannot allow the entirety of the evening to be brought in for consideration. They need to have the trial be about the scene in which the cop was shot and the witnesses that recanted. In leaving everything else out - we have a case of JUDICIAL RAILROADING and POLICE MISCONDUCT by engineering witnesses.
Far be it from me to ask you to consider that Mrs McPhal, the officers widow is a real human being. Where as her young husband and father of her children was forced to work extra hours doing security detail to enhance the family income - her husband was taken from her and her children.
What JUSTICE does she deserve in addition to the JUSTICE that you and others ask for for Troy Davis?
RiPPa
Well, if there is no physical evidence to connect him to the shooting of that police officer. How then can it be said that ballistics connected HIM to the shooting of the police officer and another gentleman earlier in the very same night?
definitely include this information as well as the new NAACP action efforts
recently launched.