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| Sydney Carton | Jul 17 2009, 03:18 PM Post #31 |
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The Arthur DNA report iis back and will remain sealed until presented in court.However,Arthur's daughter is jubilant.Her father's DNA is on none of the numerous surviving items. Catch:neither is the DNA of Bobbie Gilbert who recently confessed to the crime and at first offered to lead the cops to the missing murder gun. No testing was ordered for the other four leading suspects,Widow Judy,her sister,,her third alleged boy friend(whom she accused of the murder for a number of years between dropping "the negro raped me " stoory and testifying against Arthur,and the fourth alleged boy friend,the sheriff's deputy who was taking evidence in the case and(according to the former Assistant Attorney General) is the one who left the(now missing) semen residue. Further immediate analysis appears in requisite. http://www.waff.com/Global/story.asp?S=10720838 Edited by Sydney Carton, Jul 17 2009, 03:51 PM.
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| Sydney Carton | Jul 17 2009, 03:52 PM Post #32 |
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http://shoalsinsider.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=1&twindow=&mad=&sdetail=1637&wpage=1&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=2687&hn=shoalsinsider&he=.com Confllicting accounts. This one states that there were semen stains in the self-made widow's underwear and they definitely did not come from Arthur.She has invariably sworn from the beginning that the semen came from the murdererer,never mind which poor sloob she was accusing at a particular moment iin time. The report further states that the testing on the wig found in what may or may not have been the murderer's car is inconclusive. If so,the State will undoubtedly continue to argue,as it did in the ppast, that innocence of the "rape" does not prove innocence of the murder,though it certainly proves that the only eye-witness to have testified in court is a malignant liar. Even Crystal and Tawana haven't been caught doing anything as evil as this. No date appears to have been set for the hearing and the reading of the full report. Odd that the national press hasn't picked up on this one. Edited by Sydney Carton, Jul 17 2009, 03:55 PM.
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| Sydney Carton | Jul 29 2009, 05:12 PM Post #33 |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Surprise Result.The DNA ini Judy's underwear does not belong to Arthur,does not belong to the guy who confessed recently,does not belong to the investigatinig officer who was also having an affair with her ,does not belong to the guy whom Judy accused for the first five years or so as the boy friend she hired to commit the murder. It all belongs to the husband! The state officials deliberately destroyed the sperrm from inside her.So wwhere does this lleave Tommy Arthur. It certainly proves that,as nearly everyone but the prosecution has suspected for the last twenty odd years, that Judy is a terrible and malicious liar as well as being an extremely cold blooded murderess. The only thing she has been consistent about duing this period of time iis that the last man to have intercourse with her killed her husband at the same time. She and her sister(who still has never testified) were both found blood smeared and screaming over the body.The inference,on thiis new evidence, is that Judy did do it herself as the sister-in-law as been claiming since day one. But you can be sure that the prosecution will be arguing that since no one is directly implicated by the new findings(the hair evidence is inconclusive) this evidence is merely impeaching and is not sufficent to overturn the verdict.Of course if the State hadn't destroyed the sperm evidence(and lied about it for many years),the question could finally be answered. Is there any legal precedent for Arthur to argue that the verdict must be overturned because the state deliberately deprived him of the evidence which could,not improbably,have saved his life? This could be a very close one.It always has been. |
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| Quasimodo | Jul 29 2009, 06:28 PM Post #34 |
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I imagine there are lots of such instances-- http://wrongful-convictions.blogspot.com/2009/02/murder-conviction-overturned-after-14.html August 11, 2008 (New Mexico case) Joshua Kezer, convicted in the 1992 murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless, who was found shot to death in her car. The murder case has been reopened by Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter. Joshua Charles Kezer spent more than 14 years in prison for a murder that he insisted he didn't commit. On Tuesday, Kezer was vindicated. A Cole County judge overturned Kezer's conviction for second-degree murder and armed criminal action and affirmed Kezer's claim of actual innocence. [Note that here is another instance of a declaration of actual innocence] The judge also concluded that the original prosecutor in the case, Kenny Hulshof, the former six-term Missouri congressman, withheld evidence. No physical evidence — DNA, fingerprints or murder weapon — linked Kezer to the crime. There were no eyewitnesses. Friends and family said Kezer was 350 miles away in Kankakee, Ill., on the night of the murder. THE REPORT: Read the 45-page court document. In a rare move by law enforcement, Scott County Sheriff Rick Walter reopened the closed murder case in 2006. The Post-Dispatch published a report in November 2007 about the Kezer case and Walter's suspicions that Lawless' killer was still at large. Kezer was granted an evidentiary hearing in December. By then, the only prosecution witness to place Kezer near the murder scene had recanted. The defense also argued that prosecutors in the original case didn't provide several pieces of exculpatory evidence to Kezer's attorneys. In ruling that Kezer's case meets the legal standard of actual innocence, Judge Richard Callahan concluded that no reasonable juror would convict the defendant in light of newly discovered facts. The judge ordered Kezer to be released from Jefferson City Correctional Center within 10 days unless Scott County Prosecutor Paul Boyd decides to retry him. (snip) "I can't imagine they could retry him on this case," said Charlie Weiss, one of the attorneys from the St. Louis law firm Bryan Cave who represented Kezer. "They have nothing. They have no physical evidence whatsoever, and the snitches have no credibility." (snip) In his 44-page ruling, the judge said Kezer was betrayed by almost every level of the judicial process. "There is little about this case which recommends our criminal justice system," Callahan wrote. "The system failed in the investigative and charging stage, it failed at trial, it failed at the post trial review and it failed during the appellate process." Hulshof [the prosecutor], now an attorney at Polsinelli Shughart law firm in Kansas City, said in a statement Tuesday that he stands by Kezer's conviction. "The jury came to a unanimous decision that Mr. Kezer's alibi witnesses were not credible and that the state had proven beyond a reasonable doubt," Hulshof said. "My biggest regret is that the family of Mischelle Lawless is experiencing a travesty of justice." Callahan criticized Hulshof, who prosecuted the case for the attorney general's office, over issues of evidence. The judge said several pieces of evidence should have been made available to Kezer's original trial attorneys, including: — A police report in which Mark Abbott named Ray Ring, not Joshua Kezer, as the driver of a white car he saw near the murder scene. A Scott County sheriff's detective found this report paper-clipped to the back of the original investigation file in 2007. — A notebook kept by Scott County deputy Brenda Schiwitz was found by Walter during his investigation. The notebook showed that Mark Abbott had been considered a suspect early on, though Schiwitz testified at trial that Abbott was never a suspect and that she had destroyed her notes. Schiwitz gave a deposition in 2008 that she gave her notes to Hulshof and his investigator. Hulshof, the Republican nominee for governor who lost to Jay Nixon last year, did not address the judge's conclusion that evidence was withheld from the defense. He declined to be interviewed. Callahan said there is a reasonable probability that the outcome of the trial would have been different if any of the withheld evidence had been disclosed to Kezer's defense. Sheriff Walter was the "only bright note" in the case, the judge added. (snip) |
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| Quasimodo | Jul 29 2009, 06:48 PM Post #35 |
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FINDINGS OF FACT, CONCLUSIONS OF LAW, AND JUDGMENT (in the Kezer case) A jury trial is intended by purpose and design is to limit the power of prosecutors and judges to incarcerate. Just as important, however, is what the right to jury trial is not. A jury trial is not a shield for prosecutors to avoid difficult charging decisions, and deference to a jury verdict is not a substitute for meaningful judicial review. In the final analysis, our system of trial by jury is there to protect citizens from its own government, not to protect government from its own mistakes. (snip) Josh Kezer has advanced two legal grounds for his habeas corpus Petition: Violation of his right to due process by suppression of exculpatory evidence under Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963), and Actual innocence under Schlup v. Delo, 513 U.S. 298 (1995), and State ex rel. Amrine v. Roper, 102 S.W.3d 541 (Mo. banc 2003). (snip) As a general rule, evidence is material if it would have impeached a particularly critical prosecution witness. (snip) A finding of materiality does not require that the evidence negated by the suppressed evidence be the only evidence of guilt. Questions regarding the reliability of an eyewitness raised by suppressed prior statements can be sufficient in themselves to shake confidence in a guilty verdict if the other evidence of guilt is weak. Kyles v. Whitley, 514 U.S. at 451. The Supreme Court found a Brady violation in Kyles even though it acknowledged that the inconclusiveness of the physical evidence did not prove the defendant innocent and that the jury might have found the testimony of other eyewitnesses sufficient to convict. Id. at 453. This Court concludes that the nondisclosure of the above-described exculpatory materials constituted a violation of Josh Kezer’s constitutional due process rights within the holding of Brady v. Maryland, and, consequently, for this reason alone Josh Kezer’s convictions for the murder of Mischelle Lawless and the related armed criminal action cannot stand and should be vacated, and Josh Kezer is entitled to habeas corpus relief. B. The Actual Innocence Claim (snip) The evidence of actual innocence must be strong enough and by clear and convincing evidence to undermine the basis for the conviction so as to make the petitioner’s continued incarceration manifestly unjust even though the conviction was otherwise the product of a fair trial. (snip) In addition to his Brady claim, Petitioner has met the heavier burden under Amrine of demonstrating actual innocence by clear and convincing evidence that undermines this Court’s confidence in the correctness of the judgment. As such, confidence in his conviction and sentence are so undermined that they cannot stand and must be set aside. VI. JUDGMENT Accordingly, Judgment is entered in favor of Petitioner against Respondent. Petitioner’s convictions for Murder in the Second Degree and Armed Criminal Action are hereby set aside and held for naught. Accompanying this Judgment is the Court’s Writ. |
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| Sydney Carton | Jul 30 2009, 04:10 PM Post #36 |
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http://s1.zetaboards.com/Liestoppers_meeting/topic/1723124/1/ Thanks,Quasi.We had an entire thread on DA Hulshof and all the trouble and shame that he has brought on his constituents.He almost became Governor but is now operating from a private law firm in another state.He did not ,significantly, show up to give evidence in the Kezer case.It would probably have taken an extradition order tp put Hulshof under oath and the judge didn't need him to determine that a vicious scam had been played on both the defendant and the courts. Arthur's case ,much as I would like to see him granted a new trial immediately (which Alabama would certainly not prosecute the fifth time around), is actually quite different.Though there are,at least, four other suspects(two male and two female) who (apparently) have still not ever been .In fact,until the full forensic report is read in court, it remains uncertain whether the identification of the incriminating hair found on the wig is "uncertain" only in respect to Arthur or also in respect to the guy whose confession finally opened up the judicial door for Arthur to test what was left of the once numerous DNA testable artefacts. Should the receent confessor be actually disqualified as the hair donor by the test (he claims that he wore the wig,can lead the court to the missing gun) it could merely leave Arthur in the position of having obtained exculpatory evidence but being unable to prove his innocence as he would have done if he had been able to affirmatively show that the hair and DNA came from the new guy. (1) However,Arthur quite possibly could have a way of escape without dragging the other four suspects back in.As far as can be told from the media reports, the self-made widow Wicker has,since the confession, given two statements again reiterating that Arthur shot her husband but she does not denied that she was simultaneously sleeping with the man whom Arthur produced as his witness.If Judy is conceeding this much ,it would appear that Arthur could rightfully argue that ,remaining DNA or no DNA,the State has maliciously deprived him of the right to what would have been positive proof of his innocence and he must be immediately freed because of fraudulant prosecution. (2) This would be so much the better if the Assistant Attorney General who purportly made the statement that it was ok. to destroy the semen because the State knew it came from one of its own investigators could be compelled to repeat the statement under oath. (3) Then again(but this would require the defense to switch its current theory of the crime)Arthur could certainly argue that Judy Wicker gave no less than seven statements during the first six or seven years of the case in which she stated that she paid her sister and, yet another, boyfriend thousands of dollars each to commit the murder. Corroboration against the sister(a)the several thousand dollar payment is on record(b)she was standing over the body smeared with blood(c) four gun casings were found at the scene but the victim was shot with a single bullet.Neither she nor Judy can give any explanation of this. (d)she has failed to ever deny the obvious inferences from the three above facts. Negligence( or fraud)by the state (a) she was never tested for gun residue (b) the blood on her clothes was never analyzed.(c)There is not even a record of whether the blood markings are smears and/or spatters.( d) The police have yet to produce any statements they may have taken from her. Corroboration against the,yet another, Boyfriend (1) He did get over 6000 dollars payment from Judy as she says.No money has been traced to either Arthur or the other two boy friends.(2) He has yet to explain what services he rendered Judy in return for the payment ((3) As far as is known he has no alibi for the time of the shooting. Bad Police work: (a)No semen test(b) no blood test (c)no known interogations. Actually,judging from what just happened to Rodney Reed,under Texas law ,Arthur would be ill advised to bring the sister and ur-lover back into the case. At his original trial Reed's attorney offered evidence that the victim's cop boyfriend was violently jealous,was the last known person to see her alive,had no alibi failed two lie detector tests,and disposed of the murder car(his) within hours after retaking possession.They also introduced evidence that a second cop(himself a criminal) confessed to several people that he committed the crime and that beer cans bearing DNA consistent with his was found on beer cans at the crime scene.These purported confessions did not implicate the boyfriend and,further, Cop II further put in an alibi. In the ten years since the guilty verdict,the defense amassed a ton of further evidence incriminating the boy friend(who is now doing time for the rape kidnapping of other women).However the Texas Supreme Court while admitting that Reed' had raised more than suspicion that the live-in killed her unanimously upheld his death sentence on the grounds that the defense hadn't come up with a coherent version of how the victim died! So that the fact that circumstance offered Reed two plausable alternative murder suspects was held by the highest Texas court to be not a blessing but rather such a misfortune as may yet deprive him of his life. Should Arthur yet attempt to introduce equally plausable(since the State destroyed the key physical evidence) alternative defenses could he find himself in the same draconian position of,like Reed, being told," Since you can't figure out who did it,hooow are we supposed to know?The execution will proceed." Edited by Sydney Carton, Jul 30 2009, 04:18 PM.
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| Sydney Carton | Aug 12 2009, 03:02 PM Post #37 |
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http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20090810/NEWS/908109997/1011/NEWS?Title=DNA-hearing-on-Tommy The DNA hearing and reading of the report is on this afternoon.I will post as soon as anything happens. |
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| Sydney Carton | Aug 12 2009, 05:04 PM Post #38 |
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Birmingham News,August 10 by Eric Velasco An Alabama assistant attorney general said he would ask the Alabama Supreme Court to set an execution date for Thomas Arthur in a 1982 murder-for-hire, after a Jefferson County judge ruled that another inmate's confession to the crime lacked any credibility. Lawyers representing Arthur in his appeals asked Circuit Judge Teresa Pulliam today to order further DNA testing on a wig the killer wore when Troy Wicker Jr. was killed while asleep at his Muscle Shoals home. Earlier testing by a state forensic expert found no DNA on the wig. Pulliam rejected that request and referred the case back to the Supreme Court. snip After the April hearing, Pulliam said she was skeptical of Gilbert's story, but ordered the limited DNA testing to assess Gilbert's credibility. In his statement, Gilbert said that after killing Wicker at age 15, Gilbert and Judy Wicker had unprotected sex in the hallway during the brief time before police arrived. DNA testing on the clothes Mrs. Wicker was wearing showed the Wickers had sex at some point before her husband was killed. "Science has in fact made a liar out of Mr. Gilbert," Pulliam said today when announcing her decision denying Arthur's request for a retrial based on new evidence. "Science in this case has absolutely confirmed to me that what he had to say about being in the house was untrue." SC Science has ,yet again, made a liar out of Mrs.Wicker but that of course doesn't bother Judge Pulliam. |
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| Sydney Carton | Aug 13 2009, 04:35 PM Post #39 |
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here is the first, ever, interview with Merry Widow Wickham. Regrettably the interviewer took her at face value and failed to put a few extremely pertinent, not to say obvious,questions. Judy Wicker breaks silence after 27 years Has Judy attentatively studied perpetual role model Crystal Mangum's "Last Dance for Grace".? By Dennis Sherer Staff Writer Published: Sunday, April 26, 2009 at 3:30 a.m. Last Modified: Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 10:48 p.m. DailyTimes.com "I will die before I see him walk out of prison," she said of Thomas Douglas Arthur's latest attempts to be released from death row. snip A witness at the hearing in Jefferson County court earlier this month said he passed notes between Arthur and Gilbert when all three were in Holman prison. Wicker said she was shocked to learn of Gilbert's confession, which came three days before Arthur was scheduled to be executed. Then she got angry. "This is just Tommy's way of bringing me back into this," she said. "I wish he would just leave me and my family out of this. But now that he has brought me back into it, I am going to do everything in my power to see that Tommy dies in prison. "He's laughing at the prosecutors, he's laughing at the judges, he's laughing at me and he's wasting the taxpayers' money." snip "He is a dangerous man," she said. "A lot of people might say they are going to kill you but not mean it. If Tommy Arthur says he is going to kill someone, he means it. He told me before either of us were arrested that if I ever told anyone what he did, he would kill me. He even threatened to blow up the police station with me inside if he ever heard I had gone to the police to tell them what he did." snip She refuses to say where she lives and did not confirm that she uses a different last name. She admits complicity in her husband's death, but is adamant that a relative and Arthur forced her to go along with the plan in order to collect a $100,000 life insurance policy on Troy Wicker. SC: After she dropped the story about being raped by a Negro who thereafter killed her husband ,Judy cllaimed for at least six years that she paid her sister and her then boy friend to commit the murder.The sister was found standing with Judy over the body screaming .Both women's clothing were smeared (or possibly spattered) with blood.To this day the sister has not testified and the State claims that it never bothered to take a statement from her.. Judy has now reverted to something like the original version.The sister and Arthur,not the sister and the earlier boy friend made her do it.This is not what she quite recently swore to in court.But this reporter allows her to get by with a free pass. "Once Tommy gets his claws in you, he doesn't let go," she said. "Tommy doesn't ask you to do something; he demands it." Wicker said she begged Arthur not to go through with the plan to kill her husband, but he was unrelenting. "If I could have stopped it, I would have stopped it," she said. "Even the day of the shooting, I begged Tommy not to do it. I told him I would get him some money if he didn't kill Troy, but Tommy wouldn't listen. When he gets something in his mind, you don't stop him." Wicker said she lived with the shame and humiliation of playing a role in her husband's homicide for years, only talking about it with her family and closest friends. Now angered by being pulled back into the fray, she is speaking out. "I just decided I'm so sick of this," she said. "I'm tired, I've battled this for 27 years and the truth is the truth. I believe in our justice system and I believe in the end, Tommy will die in prison. And I want to see this thing through. If I die seeing it through, I will die seeing it through. I'm doing this for my kids and for my grandkids. They deserve this." Wicker said she has made amends with her children and grandchildren. She said Troy Wicker's family continues to harbor ill feelings for the role she played in his death. SC Her sister-in-law has publicly charged her with the murder and stated that she is too cheap to hire a killer when she is perfectly capable of firing the shot herself.The sister-in-law asks the governor to pardon Arthur. Son convinced Wicker to testify Wicker said it was a visit from her son at Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women near Montgomery that convinced her to talk to investigators about her role in the homicide. "He was 8 or 9 when he came to prison one Sunday on visitation day," Wicker said. He said, 'Mama, just tell them what they need to know so you can come home and be with us.' The next morning I called the district attorney and told them that any way I could help him, I would." SC: She did a total of ten years.This means her child must have been a babe in arms when she allegedly hired Arthur to kill her husband.Since she saw very little indeed of him she can be excused for a year or two's inaccuracy about the time they first met .But how did the kid just happen to wander his way into the prison after eight years on the day before the state took a third or fourth or fifth version of Judy'sr memoirs. Wicker did not testify against Arthur in his first trial because her conviction was being appealed. She testified in Arthur's second trial in 1987[In the intervening years she signed no less than seven declarations that Arthur was not the man she paid to kill her husband ---SC] and at his third trial in 1991. snip Wicker said she asked to be moved from Tutwiler Prison after agreeing to help the prosecution because she feared for her safety. "I was scared. Tommy knows a lot of people and I was afraid he would have me killed," she said. Wicker spent the final five years of her sentence in protective custody at a county jail. The exact facility has been kept secret. She said her early release was not a trade-off for her testimony. A weight lifted Former Colbert County District Attorney Gary Alverson said the state made no promises to help Wicker secure an early release in exchange for her helping convict Arthur.[It just happened that way because of her sweet and self sacrificing nature SC] Wicker said she cried when she made the decision to help prosecutors. "It was like a weight had been lifted off my shoulders," she said. "I knew someone besides me finally knew the truth. I cried harder that day than I had ever cried before." SC: Harder than when she and her sister were screaming and crying over the body? Judy would appear pretty facile with this kind of thing. snip Stone: Evidence ignored In addition to questioning Wicker's testimony, Stone contends prosecutors ignored evidence in all three trials that would have proved her father's innocence. She wrote in the e-mail that jurors were not allowed to hear from a witness that placed Arthur 60 miles from the crime scene at the time of the murder. Stone added in the e-mail that "fingerprints and hair that was found at the crime scene did not match (Arthur's), (and) might have led juries to a different verdict." She also pointed out that her father was represented by attorneys who were limited to being paid $1,000 to defend him in all three trials. At one point during the process, Arthur tried to represent himself. snip Judy: "He held the gun on me and drug me into the bedroom where Troy was sleeping and tried to make me watch him kill Troy," she said. "I struggled to get away, but he wouldn't let me go. Then the gun jammed and he took his hand off of me. I started running. I remember running down the hall and into the laundry room. That's when I heard the shot. SC: According to all reports,Husband Troy was sound asleep when he was shot once.Unless he was already dead of natural causes before being shot,who can believe Troy slept through this knock down dragout between Punch(sorry Tommy) and Judy? "How I got out of the laundry room, I don't know. I was in shock I guess. The next thing I remember, Tommy grabbed me and he had something nickel plated in his hand drawing back to hit me. I don't know if it was knuckles or a gun or what. I was beaten badly and had to go to the hospital. They let me out of the hospital for Troy's funeral and then I had to go back." SC:Where was her sister during all this? Wicker said she initially attempted to mislead police about the crime because Arthur told her to lie. "He coached me on what to say," she said. snip Wicker said Arthur pressured her for his money after the killing and threatened to kill her if she didn't pay up. She said she used money from her relative and a friend to make a partial payment to Arthur. SC: In all the second earliest versions,Judy pays the sister and the killer.Now the sister who "forced" her into this pays Arthur. But if Arthur is conspiring with the sister who is the only one of the lot with any dough,why is he hitting on Judy for the money? Arrest brought relief Wicker said being arrested provided a sense of relief. "The day I was arrested, I slept better than I had since before Troy was killed," she said. She has not spoken to Arthur since her trial. SC: Then when did she receive all these alleged death threats from Arthur that kept iher iin a state of terror for over half a decade? And if she feels so bad has she ever apologized to the other patsy whom she first confessed to payiing six thousand (not ten thousand)dollars to do the day. Wicker said she has talked to Stone, who came to her home in 2007 and asked her to recant her testimony so Arthur could be released. "Sherrie came to me and tried to get me to say someone else had committed this murder, and I wouldn't do it," Wicker said. She said Stone told her if Arthur was released, he was likely to receive millions of dollars by suing the state for wrongful prosecution and imprisonment. SC:How many years woulld that take? "I told her, 'Sherrie, I don't want your money. You know your daddy did this,' " Wicker said. "Then she started to cry and left." Stone confirmed meeting with Wicker, but denies asking her to fabricate her testimony so Arthur's conviction could be overturned. Seeking the truth "I had talked to Judy, a year and half, maybe two years ago, before (my father's) first scheduled execution," Stone said. "I went to her house and met with her, then I sent her a letter. I never asked her to lie, just to tell the truth because what I heard was that she was pressured by the state into changing her statement to get out of prison." She said the meeting with Wicker was emotional "because we had been through so much." "I did tell her if any money came out of it this, we would be willing to help her family, but I never offered her any money to lie for us." Stone said she has not spoken to Wicker since that meeting at her house. "And I promised her that day I would not bother her. We hugged when I left." Wicker contends she is telling the truth. "I know Tommy Arthur killed Troy because I was with him," Wicker said. SC: No you dont know it ,Judy.Remember you were in the laundry.You just told all the nice peoplle here so.May be your sister shot him.That's the only possibility you haven't offered us so far.I mean just how did you both simultaneously get that blood on the pair of you? |
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| Sydney Carton | Aug 13 2009, 04:56 PM Post #40 |
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And here is a long,long,inteview with the latest confessor,Bobby Gilbert.You can also follow the liink to a tv program. Gilbert is articulate , photogenic.and , further,(despite the bad mouthing which he is getting from Judy Wicker) has a virtual harem of lady correspondents who have appended over one hundred over one hundred letters of various degrees of literacy. It is only when one recollects that he killed two (may be three) men and has certainly spent eighteen of his forty-three years in solitary confinement that one shudders to realize how deeply seated his demons are. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/467385/_interview_with_inmate_bobby_ray_gilbert.html?cat=17 |
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| Sydney Carton | Aug 21 2009, 03:20 PM Post #41 |
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Missed this letter at the time but I hope that the Governor may still be thinking about it. LETTER FROM SIX MEN SAVED BY DNA TESTING. Someone wrote that the death penalty would not cost as much if we had "swifter executions." Everyone who feels that way should read this letter. Thanks. http://www.innocenceproject.org/docs/Riley_Arthur.pdf December 20, 2007 By Facsimile and Overnight Mail The Honorable Bob Riley Governor of the State of Alabama State Capitol 600 Dexter Avenue Montgomery, AL 36130 Re: Thomas Arthur Dear Governor Riley: Over the last several days, you have heard from hundreds of people in Alabama and across the nation asking you to order DNA testing for Thomas Arthur, who is on death row in Alabama. We write to you today because we were all convicted and sentenced to die for crimes we did not commit, only to be exonerated years later through DNA testing. In each of our cases, juries heard evidence they believed was overwhelming and proved our guilt beyond doubt. Prosecutors, judges or governors rejected our initial pleas for DNA testing. Each of us sat on death row, wondering whether the truth would come out before we were executed. And each of us was spared when the irrefutable science of DNA proved that we were innocent. We do not know whether Tommy Arthur is guilty or innocent. None of us has met him, nor have we reviewed all of the briefs in his case. We do know it’s entirely possible that DNA testing could provide compelling proof of his guilt or innocence – and we know, based on our own experience, that when science can reveal the truth, DNA testing must be conducted. If we had never been granted DNA testing, we might not be alive today. Few people have been in Mr. Arthur’s position, but we have – and that’s why we’re appealing to you to order DNA testing in this case. His execution has been delayed by the U.S. Supreme Court for other reasons, leaving plenty of time for DNA testing to be completed if you order it now. Any of us would welcome the opportunity to talk with you or your staff about our cases – and about the DNA testing that proved our innocence and kept the state from carrying out an irreversible miscarriage of justice. You or your staff can contact the Innocence Project attorneys who have been in touch with you about Mr. Arthur’s case to arrange a discussion with any of us. Sincerely, Rolando Cruz - Exonerated though DNA testing in 1995 – a decade after being sentenced to death in Illinois Charles Irvin Fain - Exonerated through DNA testing in 2001 – more than 17 years after being sentenced to death in Idaho Ray Krone - Exonerated through DNA testing in 2002 – a decade after being sentenced to death in Arizona Ryan Matthews - Exonerated through DNA testing in 2004 – five years after being sentenced to death in Louisiana Curtis McCarty - Exonerated through DNA testing in 2007 – 21 years after being sentenced to death in Oklahoma Earl Washington - Exonerated through DNA testing in 2000 – 17 years after being sentenced to death in Virginia |
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| Quasimodo | Aug 21 2009, 03:34 PM Post #42 |
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Very impressive. Edited by Quasimodo, Aug 21 2009, 03:34 PM.
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| Sydney Carton | Nov 3 2009, 04:46 PM Post #43 |
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On September 01, 2009 Judge Pulliam issued a final written order denying Arthurs Rule 32 relief. On September 8th 2009 the State filed a motion to set the execution date. On September 25, 2009 Arthur filed Memorandum in Opposition to the States Motion to set his execution date. We will file the three linksto these motions the next couple of days but you can read them immediately at the Tommy Arthur website. It appears that the State of Alabama hasn't changed its slimy tactics since it" lost" the rape kit and then stoonewalled for fifteen years before admitting that the rape kit had" disappeared".The Judge ordered a single hair tested.Surprise,now the hair went missing before it could be tested! There is still the wig which ought to produce DNA snamples but Alabama says its doesn't have the facilitiies for testing wigs.It is just too expensive.So Judge Snarly McNasty who originally ordered the wig tested rules that Arthur damn well can be executed without testing the wig.Hasn't Arthur put the State to enough trouble? Anyway she doesn't need to test it because she knows the new guy didn't do it . His DNA wasn't found in Judy's underwear. So he couldn't have been there.Therefore Arthur must have done it even though his DNA didn't show up on anything either.But she somehow still knows that he must of been there and she is gong to help the State kill him if she can! |
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