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sailwind
Madverts,
Hyperbole? I am still waiting how you have determined Troy Davis did not get a fair trial and how the verdict was not reviewed and all evidence afterwards brought out afterwards not considered that might prove his innocence through the highest courts in the land. Must be racism I guess.
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sailwind
I finally got it. The Savannah Police Department let an innocent man die and just lets the real cop killer walk around free and clear with no worries.
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sailwind
Ummm, Yabits,
You do understand that this evidence was not inadmissible at his trial and was submitted to the Board of Pardons and Parole after his conviction for their consideration to determine if he be should pardoned of the crime? My sad little world deals with facts not spin, which is what you did again.
Evidence presented to a parole board happens after the conviction Yabits, and if the state determined it to be of little value at that time does not deter from the fact that they could not introduce at his trial to bolster their case.
You make hay about how the police where dead set on railroading him yet nothing on how the case was actually prosecuted and followed to the letter of the law as to what evidence could be introduced and what could not to let the jury decide.
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sailwind
Yabits,
I agree, the way the Savannah police department was grossly wrong in how they handled the evidence. They did not obtain a proper search warrant when they went inside Troy Davis's house and found Officer MacPhail's blood on his shorts that were in the washing machine. Court ruled it as inadmissible and it was never was able to introduced in the trial.
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sailwind
Adverts,
Since you want to bring race into this. The three Air Fore members who ID'd him were Americans of African American descent. His jury was composed of 7 members of African descent and 5 Anglo Americans. They got along pretty harmoniously as they only took two hours to convict him after deliberations in the jury room.
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sailwind
Adverts,
You are focusing on what the Media reported only not what they left out. There were 34 witnesses called by the state. Not all eyewitnesses but the vast majority were, Three of the eyewitnesses were members of the U.S Air Force who happened to be in a bus parked by the Burger King parking lot and watched the whole thing go down. All three ID'd Troy Davis as the shooter and testified at his trial as such. All three had no interest in Mr. Davis or knew him from Adam. They are as impartial as you get and have never recanted or changed their testimony to this day.
I looked at the entire thing and concluded that if your going to off a cop don't do it in Burger King parking lot in front of a whole bunch of witnesses.
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sailwind
Let's try this one more time. The contradictory evidence was brought to the U.S DISTRICT FEDERAL COURT's attention on direct orders from the U.S SUPREME COURT to review the case. The first time the Supreme Court had ordered this type of procedure on a case in 50 years ( Media left that fact also).
I knew of all the contradictory evidence already because that is what what the court had to look at and rule on the validity and relevance. What do want me to write Taka????? That there was contradictory evidence but that it was already ruled on by a U.S Federal court and found lacking and was not enough to prove his innocence and that he was still found to be guilty?????? How clear can this be? Do you want me to disagree with the courts findings after their review citing the very same contradictory evidence they are ruling on? What do think they were looking at during the Federal Court Hearing? Your citing evidence that I BROUGHT to your attention in the first place by posting the link of the Federal Courts ruling.
I wanted to kill a man? Give the hyperbole a rest Taka.
I'm with the Federal Court and our court system that gave Troy Davis and his attorneys every chance to prove the initial trial and jury got it wrong, they failed. Troy Davis was found guilty by a jury of his peers, his case was thoroughly reviewed by higher courts who upheld the original verdict and justice was done.
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sailwind
I'll go with what the Court found after reviewing 20 years of evidence.
CONCLUSION Before the Court is Petitioner Troy Anthony Davis's Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus. (Doc. 2.) Pursuant to the order of the Supreme Court, this Court has held a hearing and now determines this petition. Davis, 130 S. Ct. at 1. For the above stated reasons, this Court concludes that executing an innocent person would violate the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution. However, Mr. Davis is not innocent: the evidence produced at the hearing on the merits of Mr. Davis's claim of actual innocence and a complete review of the record in this case does not require the reversal of the jury's judgment that Troy Anthony Davis murdered City of Savannah Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail on August 19, 1989. Accordingly, the 107 The Court further notes that whether it adopted the lower burden proposed by Mr. Davis, or even the lowest imaginable burden from Schlup, Mr. Davis's showing would have satisfied neither. 108 After careful consideration and an in-depth review of twenty years of evidence, the Court is left with the firm conviction that while the State's case may not be ironclad, most reasonable jurors would again vote to convict Mr. Davis of Officer MacPhail's murder. A federal court simply cannot interpose itself and set aside the jury verdict in this case absent a truly persuasive showing of innocence. To act contrarily would wreck complete havoc on the criminal justice system. See Herrera, 506 U.S. at 417. 171 Case 4:09-cv-00130-WTM Document 92-1 Filed 08/24/10 Page 109 of 112 petition is DENIED. The Clerk of Court is DIRECTED to file a copy of this order on the docket and forward this order to the Supreme Court of the United States. SO ORDERED this 2day of August 2010. WILLIAM T. MOORE, JR. V UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA 172
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sailwind
Taka
Justt a couple of words to respond to your post........William Reese is still sucking up oxygen in his jail cel
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sailwind
Yabits,
The off duty policeman was increbidly reckless?...........Good Gawd, what the he'll is that! It's his fault he got killed trying to prevent a crime? It's his fault that he is dead for doing his job, even off duty???????
Worst post of the year and decade....period.
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sailwind
I just happened to be the one to find contradictory evidence within the ahem "****Appeals court review/Appeals court ruling****" (gotta be fancy, don'tcha know). You just conveniently STILL seem to ignore that.
Just for a little clarity as you seem not to quite grasp what the Appellate Court actually does. On an appeal, lawyers file contradictory or new found evidence to the court so they can examine the evidence and determine if a new trial or hearing is warranted based on the new or contradictory evidence........You found nothing but what Mr. Davis lawyers had filed with the Appellate court to examine and rule on if it would have changed the outcome of the case.
As for the personal attack...........I provided all the details involved with the case that the media did not in the story so people can make up their own determination if justice was served. You provide nothing but insults yet again to one who does not agree with your politics.
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sailwind
Intelligence dictates that if there's a doubt, and if seven of the nine witnesses have issues, then you don't execute another human being before a fine tooth comb has been put over the things that have come to light since the conviction.
Madverts,
The link I provided is 174 pages of the Appeals court going through everything that came to light after his conviction with a fine tooth comb and their conclusion. The court upheld the verdict and death penality conviction.
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sailwind
I wouldn't go around flaunting that police report there sailwind.
Taka,
Its not a police report. It is the appeals court review of the trail and the appeals court ruling on Mr. Davis.
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sailwind
In the link,
http://tiny.cc/k0xeo
That last 15 pages are the most interesting on this whole case.
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sailwind
Yabits,
No physical evidence? His own testimony at the end of the trial said he was there all the time, just that he was not the shooter. How physical did the man have to be at the scene of the crime?
Second thing, since many eyewitnesses have recanted but admit to being there, it would be kinda nice that they tell the real story as to who killed Mr. MacPhail. They seem to be pretty damn fuzzy on who did it on that part after he was sentenced to death. And the most egregious thing in this is that Mr. Davis never ever said a name as to actually did it, he just let his lawyers imply it and let others do the rest to try put a name on who did it, he was there the whole time........pulling the trigger.
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sailwind
Has anyone read or heard anything that makes them think beyond a shadow of a doubt that he was guilty of this particular crime?
Yes, the twelve people that served on his jury.
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sailwind
thundercat,
Michael Cooper stated that it couldn't have been Davis who shot him in the face. Larry Young said he was forced to testify against Davis because of strong armed police tactics.
Just my common sense speaking here. Don't you think these two Gentlemen would have been more interested in getting the guy that "really did it" to them then seeing an innocent man get convicted and going so far as to testify that he was the one that did it to them in a court of law (he was convicted of assaulting Young and shooting Davis on lesser counts by the jury). I would have been screaming from the top of my lungs that the Police had the wrong guy from the very start and would have been demanding they get the one that actually shot me in the face or beat the heck out of me with a pistol.
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sailwind
Racism and hipocrasy...... alive and well in the good'ole US of A.
Not really,
August 28, 1991: The jury, composed of seven blacks and five whites, finds Davis guilty after less than two hours of deliberation.
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sailwind
One of the eye witnesses was shot by him in the face and another eyewitness was pistol whipped by him before he killed Mr. MacPhail who was trying to stop this man.
Justice has been served. Details omitted in the article from CNN:
Davis was at a pool party in Savannah when he shot a man, Michael Cooper, wounding him in the face. He then went to a nearby convenience store, where he pistol-whipped a homeless man, Larry Young, who'd just bought a beer, according to accounts of the case.
Prosecutors said MacPhail rushed to the scene to help, but wound up being shot three times by Davis. They said Davis shot the officer once in the face as he stood over him.
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sailwind
Terrifying, isn't it?
You've just describe Obama's Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare) and its effect on America perfectly.
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