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!
We will
declare October 30 to be Innocence Fraud Day where we will expose cases of
people who were all along guilty but had been fooled by the DISHONEST Innocence
Activists:
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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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Settlement
reached in wrongful conviction lawsuit against Northwestern and former
professor
June 1, 2018
A federal lawsuit against Northwestern University and former star
professor David Protess over one of the most controversial wrongful conviction
cases in Illinois history has been quietly settled.
Alstory Simon accused Protess and his team of
conspiring to free death row inmate Anthony Porter and convict Simon for an
infamous 1982 double murder.
Lawyers for all three parties had been in
discussions for weeks. On Friday, they filed a one-page stipulation to dismiss
the case. The amount of the settlement agreement — which still needs to be
approved by a judge — was not disclosed.
Terry Ekl, the lead attorney for Simon, said in a
statement that a “confidentiality clause prevents the parties from commenting
on the terms of the settlement.” The lawsuit had sought $40 million.
Protess’ attorney, Matthew Piers, said Friday that
his client admitted no wrongdoing in the settlement and stood by his work in
the Simon investigation, which he still believes proves Simon’s guilt. But with
his legal fees mounting, Protess ultimately agreed to resolve the case because
the expense of the litigation was “killing him,” Piers said.
“He is a retired guy, he doesn’t have a lot of
means,” Piers said. “But he is proud of the work he did on this case … he believed
that he acted absolutely appropriately.”
Northwestern released a short statement Friday
saying only that it was “pleased” with the settlement and had admitted no
wrongdoing.
In addition to the settlement with Northwestern and
Protess, Simon also filed a motion to dismiss claims against private
investigator Paul Ciolino, who worked for Protess and obtained Simon’s
controversial confession that landed him in prison and led to charges against
Porter being dismissed.
The resolution of the lawsuit short of trial could
mean there will never be a full public airing of evidence in a case that had
wide-ranging implications on the state’s criminal justice system — including
the abolition of the death penalty. The settlement occurred before Simon could
be deposed, and much of the other discovery in the case remains sealed by a
protective order, records show.
Reached by phone, Ciolino’s attorney, Jennifer
Bonjean, called the secrecy surrounding the settlement “appalling.”
“They clearly don’t want the truth to come out,”
said Bonjean, adding that she’s also been kept in the dark on the settlement
figure. “They want to stop discovery, and they don’t want to litigate.”
Ciolino has a defamation lawsuit pending in Cook
County Circuit Court alleging pro-police lawyers and advocates destroyed his
reputation and career in a "swift boat" plot to undermine Protess'
work.
Protess, 72, taught investigative reporting at
Northwestern's journalism school and founded the Medill Innocence Project,
which under his tutelage contributed to the exoneration of 11 wrongfully
convicted men, five of whom were on death row.
He left the school in 2011 amid controversy over
tactics allegedly employed by his students during an investigation into the
murder conviction of Anthony McKinney, including lying about their identities
and flirting with witnesses. Amid pressure from the Cook County state’s
attorney’s office, university officials concluded Protess had misled them about
what information he’d shared with McKinney’s attorneys — accusations that
Protess called "entirely disingenuous."
The falling out eventually led to Protess
announcing he was leaving Northwestern to found his own innocence project.
Simon’s lawsuit alleged Protess and 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.
The confession — and Porter's eventual release from
prison — helped spur then-Gov. George Ryan to halt executions, a step toward
the abolition of the death penalty in Illinois in 2011.
The case was again upended in 2014 when Cook County
prosecutors agreed to throw out Simon's conviction, citing questions about the
methods used to obtain his confession.
But in yet another twist, an internal memo obtained
by the Tribune last year showed that then-State’s Attorney Anita Alvarez had
disregarded results of a yearlong investigation by her top deputies when she
decided to free Simon.
In the memo, which has never been released
publicly, Assistant State’s Attorneys Fabio Valentini and Joseph Magats said
they had concluded there was not sufficient evidence to warrant setting Simon
free.
Alvarez gave a sworn deposition as part of the
Simon case earlier this year that remains under seal.
INTERNET SOURCE: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-alstory-simon-lawsuit-settlement-20180601-story.html
"In murder cases, prosecutors sign arrest warrants, not the cops. When cops bring their evidence to the prosecutors to get the warrant, there is often great tension because the detectives believe they have sufficient evidence to proceed, but the prosecutors want more. This is a built-in safeguard in the criminal justice system, providing an instant independent review of the case before charges are made. This was true in the Porter case."- WHAT’S WRONG WITH THE WRONGFUL CONVICTION MOVEMENT BY MARTIN PREIB
Ex-death
row inmate Alfred Brown 'bluffed his way out of prison,' county alleges
Explosive new allegation filed in federal court lawsuit
By Keri Blakinger Updated 6:52 pm, Wednesday, May 9, 2018
The Houston man released from death row after more than a decade may have "bluffed his way out of prison," Harris County attorneys alleged in federal court filings this week.
Explosive new allegation filed in federal court lawsuit
By Keri Blakinger Updated 6:52 pm, Wednesday, May 9, 2018
The Houston man released from death row after more than a decade may have "bluffed his way out of prison," Harris County attorneys alleged in federal court filings this week.
Alfred Dewayne Brown was sentenced to die for the slaying of Houston police officer, but was freed in 2015 after a police investigator uncovered phone records in his garage that defense lawyers said corroborated Brown's alibi.
But now, the county is alleging the phone call doesn't prove Brown's innocence because it was actually a three-way call, showing he was not home at his girlfriend's. The shifting interpretation of the old records stems from a new expert analysis that Brown's attorneys have already begun calling into question.
INTERNET SOURCE:
Man freed by Innocence Project accused of child sexual assault
Natasha
Lindstrom and Rich Cholodofsky | Friday, Aug. 17, 2018, 5:51 p.m.
A man freed
from prison in May after a judge vacated his 1991 rape conviction in
Westmoreland County was arrested Thursday on charges of sexually assaulting a
7-year-old child at his home in McKees Rocks.
John Kunco,
53, previously of Harrison, was arraigned Friday on charges of aggravated
indecent assault, unlawful contact with a minor, corruption, endangering the
welfare of children and indecent assault.
Court
documents list the date of the offenses as May 23, the day Kunco was released
from prison after serving nearly 28 years of a 45- to 90-year sentence in an
unrelated rape case.
Last week,
officials received a Childline report from a 7-year-old girl who said she had
been sexually abused by Kunco, a criminal complaint shows.
The child
told officials she recalled laying beside Kunco on a futon, falling asleep and
waking to Kunco sexually assaulting her. She said she was 6 when it happened.
Court records
indicate that Kunco was able to post 10 percent of the $25,000 bail set in the
new Allegheny County case on Friday — but Westmoreland County District Attorney
John Peck said he believes that Kunco is in jail awaiting a mental health
evaluation and is not expected to be released before Monday.
On May 23,
Kunco was released from prison on a $10,000 unsecured bond after a judge
vacated his 1991 rape conviction and gave prosecutors the option of a retrial.
A jury had
convicted Kunco of savagely raping and torturing a 55-year-old woman in her New
Kensington apartment.
Prosecutors
said Kunco broke into the woman’s apartment in December 1990, blindfolded her
with her underwear, shocked her with a frayed electrical cord, then raped her
and forced her to perform sexual acts. At trial, prosecutors showed jurors
photographs of a healed bite mark on the woman that experts said matched a
dental imprint of Kunco’s mouth.
Kunco has
maintained his innocence and received legal support from the Innocence Project,
a New York-based nonprofit whose mission is to exonerate wrongly convicted
people using DNA evidence.
The Innocence
Project on Friday said that Kunco has been fully cooperating with police since
his release three months ago and described the new charges as “unsubstantiated
allegations of unwanted contact.”
“These
allegations have absolutely no relation to Mr. Kunco’s 1991 conviction that was
recently vacated based on DNA and other evidence proving his innocence,” Karen
Thompson, the Innocence Project attorney representing Kunco, said in a
statement.
“It is
important to remember at this point that Mr. Kunco has only been charged with a
crime and should be presumed innocent until proven otherwise,” Thompson said.
“As we know, wrongful convictions occur time after time because of a rush to
judgment.”
The Innocence
Project’s attorneys argued the bite mark evidence used to convict Kunco was
based on faulty science. DNA testing last year of a blanket believed to have
been present during the rape found no traces of Kunco’s genetic material and
instead what the defense said was another unidentified male.
Westmoreland
County Common Pleas Court Judge Christopher Feliciani ruled that with the new
DNA evidence, the totality of the evidence presented against Kunco likely would
not have resulted in a conviction at the original trial.
Peck said
that prosecutors plan to go to court Monday morning to ask that Feliciani
revoke Kunco’s bond in the New Kensington rape case.
“At this
time, we are intending on retrying the case,” Peck said.
Natasha
Lindstrom is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Natasha at
412-380-8514, nlindstrom@tribweb.com or via Twitter @NewsNatasha. Rich
Cholodofsky is a Tribune-Review staff writer. You can contact Rich at
724-830-6293 or rcholodofsky@tribweb.com.
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
RACHEL ALEXANDER: INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE
RARELY EXECUTED
INNOCENCE FRAUD
PROJECT:
