After learning about
the Anthony Porter Case, 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.
On this date, October
30, 2014, Alstory Simon was freed from Prison after spending
nearly 15 years behind bar after being framed by the Innocence Project. We
encourage the public to never believe in those Anti-Death Penalty Activists
(Pro Murderers and murder victims haters) send by Satan anymore, as they enjoy LYING AND LYING SO MUCH!
INTERNET SOURCE: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-anthony-porter-contempt-court-met-20170515-story.html
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Free: Alstory Simon
confessed to a double murder in 1999, mainly because of an investigation from a
team of students at Northwestern University. He was released from Jacksonville
Correctional Facility last week
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Anthony Porter
fails to show in court for lawsuit over wrongful conviction
Jason
MeisnerContact
ReporterChicago Tribune
Former death row inmate Anthony Porter, at the
center of one of the most controversial wrongful conviction cases in Illinois
history, was a no-show in federal court Monday even though he faced the threat
of arrest for not coming in to explain why he'd skipped out on a recent
deposition.
But instead of issuing a warrant for Porter's
arrest, U.S. Magistrate Judge David Weisman decided to order him again to sit
for his deposition, this time on June 6. If he fails to show for that
testimony, he could then be taken into custody.
Porter was supposed to give sworn testimony this
month in the bombshell case brought by Alstory Simon, who has accused
Northwestern University, its former star professor David Protess and others of
conspiring to free Porter and convict Simon for an infamous 1982 double murder.
After Porter failed to appear for his deposition at
a Loop law office, Weisman last week ordered him to come into court and explain
his absence.
While Porter did not show, his new attorney, Tara
Thompson of the Loevy and Loevy law firm, told Weisman she needed more time to
research the case and file a possible objection to the deposition based on
Porter's mental state.
"It was my hope and my desire that he would be
here, although as the court can see, he is not," said Thompson, who is
representing Porter pro bono. "That said, I do have concerns from
conversations (with Porter) ... that there are competency issues at play
here."
Protess taught investigative reporting at
Northwestern's prestigious journalism school and founded the Medill Innocence
Project, a key engine of the often successful local movement to unearth
injustices.
He left the school in 2011 amid controversy over
tactics allegedly employed by his students, including giving witnesses money for drugs, lying about
their identities and flirting with witnesses.
Simon's $40 million suit alleges Protess and
private investigator Paul Ciolino manufactured bogus evidence, coaxed false
statements from witnesses and intimidated Simon into confessing to the August
1982 murders of Jerry Hillard and Marilyn Green in a South Side park.
Northwestern, Protess and Ciolino have all denied
wrongdoing.
INTERNET
SOURCE: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-alstory-simon-certificate-of-innocence-20170525-story.html
Innocence certificate bid gains new life
in case that doomed state death penalty
Alstory
Simon, talking to reporters about his mother dying while he was incarcerated,
was released Oct. 30, 2014, from the Jacksonville Correctional Center in
Jacksonville, Ill.
(Michael
Tercha / Chicago Tribune 2014)
Steve
SchmadekeContact
ReporterChicago Tribune
An appeals
court has breathed new life into efforts by Alstory Simon to win a certificate
of innocence three years after Cook County prosecutors agreed to free him,
rewriting the story of a double-murder case that ultimately ended capital
punishment in Illinois.
While the
court stopped short of granting the certificate — a disappointment for Simon,
whose lawyer said he might appeal — it did order a new hearing and gave Simon
another chance to make his case in the protracted legal battle.
Simon's
bombshell convictions for murder and manslaughter were thrown out in 2014 by
the Cook County state's attorney at the time, Anita Alvarez, who told reporters that "alarming
tactics that were not only coercive but absolutely unacceptable by law
enforcement standards" had been used by a former Northwestern University professor and a
private investigator to obtain Simon's videotaped confession.
That 1999
confession, aired on local TV, led to the release of Anthony Porter, who was
then on death row for a double slaying on the South Side in 1982. His release
helped spur the governor at the time, George Ryan, to halt executions in
Illinois, a step toward the abolition of the death penalty here in 2011.
But the
release of Simon, who claimed he pleaded guilty because he had been promised
money from book or movie deals, raised the possibility that a guilty man had
been freed.
Indeed, Cook
County Judge Thomas Byrne in 2015 found that Simon was most likely innocent in
the slaying of Marilyn Green and the voluntary manslaughter of Jerry Hillard,
but ruled Simon was barred from receiving a certificate of innocence because he
had helped bring about his own confession and had not alleged any wrongdoing by
prosecutors.
Last week,
the state appellate court panel did not take issue with Byrne's ruling, but
said the judge improperly based on it on evidence not admitted into the record,
depriving Simon of any chance to respond or address it. It ordered a new
hearing on Simon's petition. Prosecutors didn't oppose the certificate or
appeal.
Simon's
attorney Terry Ekl said he was unhappy with the ruling and will most likely
seek permission from the Illinois Supreme Court to appeal. He said the
certificate should have been granted based on the uncontested evidence
presented to the judge.
"It
makes no sense whatsoever," he said. "(Our appeal) sat there for two
years and then they came back with this evidentiary hearing so we can contest
evidence that was never presented to the court."
Simon, who is
67 and now living in Ohio, alleges he was framed by former Northwestern
professor David Protess and private investigator Paul Ciolino, who Simon says
fabricated evidence to free Porter from death row. In a pending $40 million
federal lawsuit, Simon alleges Protess and Ciolino, manufactured bogus
evidence, coaxed false statements from witnesses, intimidated Simon into
confessing and set him up with a lawyer, Jack Rimland, who coached him to plead
guilty.
They have
denied wrongdoing, as has Northwestern, which is also named in the lawsuit.
Protess left Northwestern in 2011 amid controversy over tactics allegedly
employed by his students, including giving witnesses money for drugs, lying
about their identities and flirting with witnesses.
The federal
judge hearing Simon's lawsuit threatened to issue an arrest warrant for Porter
this month after he failed to show for scheduled deposition or a court hearing
to explain why. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Weisman instead ordered Porter to
sit for a June 6 deposition.
If he again
fails to show, Porter could then be taken into custody. Porter was awarded
about $150,000 by the state in 2000 for his wrongful imprisonment and also was
given a certificate of innocence.
But his $24
million lawsuit against the city and two Chicago police detectives failed when
a Cook County jury sided with the police and awarded him no damages.
If he wins an
innocence certificate, Simon can have his conviction expunged from the record
and become eligible for $200,000 from the state. It would also aid his pending
federal lawsuit.
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PLEASE GO TO THE FOLLOWING LINKS:
WHAT’S WRONG
WITH THE WRONGFUL CONVICTION MOVEMENT BY MARTIN PREIB
Crime Lab
Report
"Vindicated"
Former Death Row Inmate Actually Did It
CASEY ANTHONY
IS GUILTY!
EXONERATED 27
FROM THE U.S.A DEATH ROW - FROM INNOCENT TO GUILTY: JOSEPH GREEN BROWN
(MURDERED AGAIN & ARRESTED ON SEPTEMBER 14, 2012)
ATTORNEY WALTER JONES ON ANTHONY PORTER
CASE
WARD A. CAMPBELL: CRITIQUE OF DPIC
INNOCENCE LIST
http://victimsfamiliesforthedeathpenalty.blogspot.com.au/2016/05/ward-campbell-critique-of-dpic.html
The Myth of
Innocence by Joshua Marquis
A MURDER IN THE
PARK (2014)
FALSE
CONFESSIONS BY DR. MICHAEL WELNER
INNOCENCE FRAUD
PROJECT:
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