EMRE, you continue to impress me with your insights on how some ‘investigations’ are conducted. “…..creating a suspect that doesn’t exist….” – BRILLIANT! Most folks don’t have the capacity to think with such deviancy.
I am trying help three innocent men get out of jail for a double murder they didn’t commit. The police had to first find three victims, or more to pin this on and build a web of lies from there. In this particular case the cops believed they needed to find the driver of the getaway car. They made up a fictitious guy named “Jason”. Two of the suspects, later convicted gave ‘confessions’ that Jason was the driver. A cooperating/lying witness gave the same statement. These people said they knew Jason from the neighborhood from 2 -4 years. Two guys also placed “Jason” on a particular block in a semi-residential area.
This was a case where one of the victims was an off-duty NYPD cop working a second job. The cops could never find “Jason”. They couldn’t find him because he never existed. They knew there was no such “Jason” because they made it up.
I did many homicide cases and a few cases where police officers were murdered. I can tell you with absolute certainty that if there was such a person involved in similar circumstances I would have that person in handcuffs in 24 hours. There is just no way he could avoid being arrested. The cops never found such a person. I doubt if they even looked for such a person other than pretending that they did.
Five months later detectives did bring in a Jason Ligon to the precinct that investigated the double murder. Ligon ‘confessed’ to the crime and pretty much corroborated the ‘confessions’ of the two suspects and the cooperating witness accomplice. The ONLY problem with that ‘confession’ is he didn’t give it to the cops; the cops made it up for him and made him sign it. He balked when the DA brought in a video camera to record the statement.
Jason Ligon was more than 200 miles away selling drugs in Baltimore/DC area and was captured on videotape doing so. The entire case took more than 3 years to complete with three separate trials for the three individuals charged and convicted of this crime. Ligon had to go to jail waiting for a trial that would never happen because if this became known to the defense the chances are all three cases would have been put in jeopardy. After the last of the three trials was over the DA suddenly realized Jason simply wasn’t there and couldn’t have been there. He released him 2 weeks after the last conviction came in. He even had to gall to take credit for correcting this terrible injustice he committed upon Jason Ligon.
Ligon’s confession pretty much corroborated the ‘confessions’ of the three others. The question that no one was able to answer is how he was able to do that if he wasn’t there! His confession was very detailed and he couldn’t have just made it up. Not one person was held accountable for this obvious perjury on the part of the police and with the help of the district attorney.
In 2008, one of the defendants filed a Writ of Habeas with the federal court in the EDNY. Judge Edward Korman had no problem explaining how this could have happened with one of the most ridiculous explanations I have ever heard. He concluded his explanation by saying the two detectives that took the false statement from Ligon ( they were the principal detectives in this case) were not the same detectives that took the ‘confessions’ from the two defendants, and the alleged witness accomplice. Therefore, this bogus confession had no bearing on the integrity of the whole case in question.
I don't know what it is... maybe "pride" getting the best of LE officials, or the constant pressure of maintaining a decent "conviction rate" that keeps them from stepping back. Remember your other case, where a young man is convicted for killing a teenage girl.
The sequence of events is, (1) boy and girl together, (2) boy goes home alone, (3) boy hears on the news that the girl is found dead, (4) boy gets his car cleaned.
Now, the prosecution presents this as a proof of culpability. But reviewing the events in the proper timeline, you can see there's a good chance the boy is innocent. Because for #4, the boy - if he murdered the girl - doesn't need to hear the news to get his car cleaned.
As you know, I am quite wary about exonaration thing, or I was, before reading your posts, especially the "rape case" you posted on another thread is truly depressing. That could be anybody.
I will write a detailed post about Hugues Francois case (Thalia Stathis murder in New Jersey).
http://www.websleuths.com/forums/sh...ed-Victims-**MERGED**&p=10954591#post10954591
Now, this man is convicted for "second-degree disturbing or removing human remains" meaning the prosecution supposedly proves he took the victim's body and dumped it on the shoulder of a road intersection in Long Island.
There is nothing in the entire case they can even remotely refer him leaving New Jersey. I wrote a letter to him to NJSP, because unfortunately, even his own lawyer (public def) is not insterested that he can be innocent.
I don't know if Francois will ever get my letter, or will he ever reply. But if I get a reply, I will share it here.
Note: I'm waiting for an update from you on my "tomatoes".
Finally; LISK is asking;
What is the difference between an undertaker and a corrupt PD?
Answer: You don't have to pay for the services of the corrupt PD.