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False Confessor Seeks New Trial | 13 comments (13 topical)
Re: False Confessor Seeks New Trial (none / 0) (#1)
by ltgesq on Tue Jan 03, 2006 at 03:18:48 PM EST
Any Defense attorney who tries murder cases with any sort of regularity has dealt with situations like Marty Tankleff's. That is the scary part of this story. I once tried a case that after i had my client testify, the prosecutor recalled the detective to refut my client's statement. It was during my subsequent cross-examination the prosecutor (and any other sentient being) figured out that the detective actually was framing my client for not cooperating in the investigation. The jury quickly aquitted my client. In discussing the case with a few jurors afterwards, none of them figured out the detective had been lying. Pretty scary thought considering the prosecutor told me just prior to closing arguement that if he hadn't been conviced the jury was going to acquit, he would have dismissed the case right then. Jurys believe anything a detective tells them, and cannot imagine that cops would not care they have the wrong man.

False Confessor Seeks New Trial | 13 comments (13 topical)

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