hawkshaw
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A STORY FOR THOSE THAT LIKE TO READ THIS STUFF. After I retired I got involved in a case where 3 men were arrested and convicted of a double murder. One of the victims was an NYPD cop working off-duty. I was fascinated with the case. After only two weeks of studying the case I came to conclusion that these men just didn't do it and they were framed by the cops ( some I worked with ) the DA, with the help of the trial judge. In contrast to my SIL's case it took me more than a year and after the trial to come to the same conviction that my SIL was 100% innocent and was framed. It took me only two weeks to understand these three men were entirely innocent in every sense of the word. And these three men were all convicted in three separate trials by the same judge and ADA.
One day I go to the prison to talk to one of these fellows. Behind me was another man that was convicted of shooting a cop and wounding him. He got 25 to Life. I never saw him there and if I did I wouldn't have never recognized him
After I leave that man asks my guy who I was. I stood out because I was white. My guy tells him to write me a letter and I might help him/ He writes me that letter and before I finish reading the first paragraph describing his arrest my hands start shaking: I WAS THE GUY THAT FIRST PUT MY HANDS ON HIM when we jumped out of a van to arrest him. I didn't believe then and I still don't believe it today this guy did what he was convicted of. I was just a minor player in the investigation and had no say who was to be arrested. I informed him of my opinion. But I had little evidence that could set aside a guilty verdict. There was nothing I could do. That fellow was an admitted drug dealer, but no someone so foolish to shoot a cop in the circumstances outlined in the indictment. He was expendable. The guy has already done 25 years with little chance of parole because nobody cares.
He came up for parole a few months ago.About two weeks before the hearing the cop's that got shot has a son, a cop, that got shot under very similar circumstances as his father was shot.....HE HAD NO CHANCE OF GETTING PAROLE after that. He never confessed to the crime and has never admitted same to the parole board before the last hearing and the one before it. You will NEVER get parole unless you admit you did it and now feel remorse for it. He will not confess to a crime he didn't do and he won't admit to it.
One day I go to the prison to talk to one of these fellows. Behind me was another man that was convicted of shooting a cop and wounding him. He got 25 to Life. I never saw him there and if I did I wouldn't have never recognized him
After I leave that man asks my guy who I was. I stood out because I was white. My guy tells him to write me a letter and I might help him/ He writes me that letter and before I finish reading the first paragraph describing his arrest my hands start shaking: I WAS THE GUY THAT FIRST PUT MY HANDS ON HIM when we jumped out of a van to arrest him. I didn't believe then and I still don't believe it today this guy did what he was convicted of. I was just a minor player in the investigation and had no say who was to be arrested. I informed him of my opinion. But I had little evidence that could set aside a guilty verdict. There was nothing I could do. That fellow was an admitted drug dealer, but no someone so foolish to shoot a cop in the circumstances outlined in the indictment. He was expendable. The guy has already done 25 years with little chance of parole because nobody cares.
He came up for parole a few months ago.About two weeks before the hearing the cop's that got shot has a son, a cop, that got shot under very similar circumstances as his father was shot.....HE HAD NO CHANCE OF GETTING PAROLE after that. He never confessed to the crime and has never admitted same to the parole board before the last hearing and the one before it. You will NEVER get parole unless you admit you did it and now feel remorse for it. He will not confess to a crime he didn't do and he won't admit to it.