“The ends cannot justify the means when the means are fraudulent.”
We, the comrades of Unit 1012, NEVER
and DO NOT support any wrongful conviction, we want the guilty to be punished.
However, we know that the ACLU
Demons, uses the word, ‘innocent convicted’ not because they fear
convicting the innocent, but they just oppose convicting the guilty.
This article speaks of the fraud by
the Innocence Activists on how they lie to protect the guilty.
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'Innocence
Fraud is Real' Warns Crime Lab Report's Chief Managing Editor
This and
other preliminary findings of a study titled 'The Innocence Audit' were
delivered by John M. Collins Jr., the Chief Managing Editor of Crime Lab
Report, at the annual symposium of the American Society of Crime Laboratory
Directors (ASCLD) on Thursday, April 30, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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A stern warning was issued to crime
laboratory administrators that some post-conviction exonerations may have been
secured by innocence activists using malicious tactics, or 'innocence fraud',
creating potential public safety threats as convicted felons are released from
prison.
The comments were made by John M.
Collins Jr., the Chief Managing Editor of Crime Lab Report, in a speech
detailing the preliminary findings of a study titled 'The Innocence Audit' at
the annual symposium of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors
(ASCLD) on Thursday, April 30, 2015. The event was held at the Wardman Park
Marriott in Washington, D.C.
"Exonerations are extremely
serious," Collins told the audience of approximately 150 guests on the
final day of the symposium. "For our criminal justice system to go back
and say that the decision of a judge or jury who decided to put a particular
individual in prison [was wrong] . . . and suddenly say that the individual
shouldn't be there - and is therefore free to return to life in the public - is
very, very serious."
Collins cited the 2003 exoneration of
Steven Avery in Wisconsin as evidence of the public safety significance of
exonerations. After being convicted of a 1985 rape in Manitowoc County Circuit
Court (86-1831-CR), Avery was released from prison 18 years later with the help
of the Wisconsin Innocence Project. But in 2005, two years after his
exoneration, Avery was again convicted in Manitowoc County (05-CF-381) for the
brutal killing of a young female Auto Trader Magazine photographer.
Collins said the strongest audience
reaction seemed to come from his showing of crime scene photographs from the
1991 murder of Jacquetta Thomas in North Carolina. A white Nissan Pathfinder
belonging to Gregory Taylor was found stuck in mud within close proximity of
the victim's body. Gregory Taylor was eventually convicted in 1993 in Wake
County Superior Court (92CRS7128, 92CRS30701), but exonerated in 2010 and
awarded $4.6 million dollars in post-conviction relief. Despite considerable
evidence against him, Taylor was exonerated following what Collins argued was a
coerced confession of a wayward prison inmate who had a history of confessing
to crimes he didn't commit.
Collins, who has studied overturned
convictions for over a decade, also urged new research priorities to better
understand what causes erroneous convictions. Among his recommendations was a
call to evaluate drug use and addiction on the part of erroneously convicted
felons, which Collins says is a "clear and consistent trend" worthy
of study.
In the mean time, Collins hopes that
The Innocence Audit will open people's eyes to what goes on behind the scenes
when activists are fighting to secure exonerations. "Our study is
producing evidence that Innocence Fraud is real," Collins says. "But
it can be corrected with education and better standards of care for post-conviction
activists and litigators. The ends cannot justify the means when the means are
fraudulent."
Crime Lab Report, now in its 9th year,
is an independent quarterly publication focusing on media and industry affairs
in forensic science. It is edited and distributed by the Forensic Foundations
Group, which is based near Lansing, Michigan.
For more information about The
Innocence Audit, or to make a donation in support of Crime Lab Report's ongoing
research, please visit http://www.crimelabreport.com/innocenceaudit.
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