https://files.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/pdf/FactSheet.f1573740480.pdf
9 executions for every exoneration, roughly
His time of death testimony was bullshit, and that was the scientific evidence the jury relied on along with the note and Ken Anderson’s completely made up trial theory
Thanks for taking the time.
My buddies and I have a saying when we are rolling into court prepared to give the state a beating on a good case....we call it “channeling our inner Lisa Tanner.” Because when you see her command a courtroom, you better hope you aren’t the defendant. Or the defense attorney, because she is damn good.
https://files.deathpenaltyinfo.org/documents/pdf/FactSheet.f1573740480.pdf
Yes, I agree. I wasn’t up to speed on the priors, and the media coverage makes it sound like he was definitely wrongfully convicted. I question now whether he was. And I don’t like him being used as the DP poster boy.
If he claims it was a consensual relationship, all the other assaults come in evidence to disprove his trial theory.
For some of you lay folks who do not understand criminal law, typically prior bad acts are not admissible to show that the person committed the offense on the occasion in question. However if the defendant takes a position that there was a lack of intent, or there was a mistake, prior similar incidents can be offered to rebut that theory. Imagine in a sexual assault of a child case, if the defendant was saying touching that girl where I did was just an accident, I didn’t do that intentionally. And then there was 10 other little girls that said he says he accidentally touched me there too. Or put his character in issue by offering evidence that he would never do something like that, and there are many others no claim he did. Or to rebut the defendant’s trial theory that the complainant fabricated the allegation