1. Alfred Dwayne was convicted of murdering a police officer, and a store clerk.
2. During closing arguments, said "Excuse me. I didn’t rob nobody. I didn’t shoot nobody."
3. The jury's decision was rendered, and he was sentenced to death in October 2005.
4. The article was published Wednesday, May 14, 2014.
5. Brown's Alibi was claiming "...he had made a phone call on that fateful morning of April 3, 2003, from his girlfriend’s apartment to another land line where she was working as a home health aide. He said he called around 10 a.m. - the same time prosecutors told jurors Brown was at an apartment complex with the other perpetrators, washing up, changing clothes and watching news coverage of the murders"
6. Brown's alibi failed in the original trial because it was found his IQ level was just above mental retardation and he was illiterate.
7. The district attorney re-opened the case because new evidence was found that old records not provided to the case were held back by a prosecutor.
8. The girlfriend of the convict testified against her boyfriend at first, but came out later, saying she was pressured to lie; convincing evidence that the number records weren't an innocent oversight.
9. The appeals court, however, has stalled signing off on his appeal.
10. The author calls people to action to give Brown another trial, so he may not rot in prison for perhaps being innocent.
11. Our legal system is not very reliable. I wouldn't put it past them to kill him before the trial gets back around.
12. A to-the-point analogy, taking a side. It's really characteristic of an op-ed column in the way that she describes things like "those big do-gooder law firms."
6. Also, his attorneys presented no evidence to substantiate his alibi.
ReplyDelete7. The prosecutor did not hold them back. In fact, they requested the records. It was the investigator who for some reason did not provide them to any of the attorneys.
8. The second document was the prosecutors request for the phone records.
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