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Tag Archives: 2014
A Message from Willie
Dear everyone I must have written you a hundred letters in my mind. Sometimes I just lay here and think of all the things I want to say – but for one reason or another – I always find it … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice USA, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mississippi Supreme Court, Oktibbeha County, Parchman, post conviction review, prison conditions, solitary confinement, USA injustice, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, African American, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, December 2014, execution, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Oktibbeha County, Parchman, prison conditions, prisoners' mental health, solitary confinement, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction
Mississippi Hustle*
Last month a bombshell was dropped in Mississippi: the resignation of the Corrections Commissioner, Christopher Epps, was swiftly followed by his arraignment on charges of accepting bribes of over $1m from a business man and former sheriff’s deputy, Cecil McCrory. … Continue reading
Posted in America, Cecil McCrory, Christopher Epps, corruption, criminal justice, Death Row, FBI, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, Mississippi Corrections Commissioner, Mississippi State Penitentiary, no-bid contracts, prison conditions, USA, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, Willie Manning Mississippi Death Row
Tagged 2014, AdminPros, Cecil McCrory, Christopher Epps, Death Row, December 2014, East Mississippi Correctional Facility, Fly Manning, GT Enterprises, Injustice, Joint Legislative Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review, Keefe Commissary, Mississippi, Mississippi Corrections Commissioner, Mississippi Hustle, Mississippi State Penitentiary, prison conditions, Walnut Grove Correctional Facility, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Lethal Deadlines
Question: When does a deadline become a ‘dead’ line? Answer: When the deadline in question is the crucial one that allows death row inmates to appeal their state convictions in federal courts. If defense attorneys miss this deadline it can … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, execution, Fly Manning, Injustice, legal bias, Lori St John, Marshall Project, miscarriages of justice, missed deadline, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, post conviction lawyers, post conviction review, procedural default, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, appeals, capital punishment USA, death penalty, Death Row, Federal Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, Fly Manning, Gregory Scott Johnson, Injustice, legal bias, legal deadlines, Marshall Project, missed deadlines, Mississippi, November 2014, Washington Post, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction
Twenty Wasted Years
Today, November 10 2014, is a significant landmark for Willie Jerome Manning: on this day it is twenty years since he first entered Mississippi’s death row. When he was taken onto death row the first official White House website had just … Continue reading
Posted in African American injustice, American justice, criminal justice, death penalty, death penalty USA, Death Row, DNA testing, execution, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, Mississippi Supreme Court, Oktibbeha County, prison conditions, solitary confinement, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, African American, capital murder, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, Fly Manning, Injustice, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary Parchman, Mississippi Supreme Court, November 2014, Oktibbeha County, solitary confinement, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
The Bottom Line: “Mr Manning did not get a fair trial.”
Willie Jerome Manning’s oral arguments for his 1993 case were heard in the Mississippi Supreme Court last week (at the time of writing it can still be viewed at the State of Mississippi Judiciary). The case relates to the murders … Continue reading
Posted in Brookville Garden, capital punishment, criminal justice USA, death penalty, death row intellectual disabiliy, Fly Manning, Ineffective trial attorneys, Injustice, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, Mississippi Supreme Court, Oktibbeha County Circuit Court, perjured testimony, post-conviction DNA evidence, prosecutorial misconduct, recanting witness, Starkville, USA injustice, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, Brookville Garden, capital punishment, David Voisin, death penalty, Emmoline Jimmerson and Alberta Jordan, Fly Manning, impeachment, Injustice, Kevin Lucious, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, November 2014, Oktibbeha County, recanting witness, Special Assistant Attorney General Melanie Thomas, undisclosed evidence, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction
Watch Willie’s Oral Argument Live!
If you wish to bypass media reports and instead listen live to the arguments in Willie Jerome Manning’s second case, you can do so next Monday. A webcast from the Mississippi Supreme Court will allow access to the court proceedings … Continue reading
Posted in Brookville Garden, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Fly Manning, incentivized witness testimony, Injustice, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Oktibbeha County, perjured witness testimony, prosecutor misconduct, suppressed evidence, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, witness testimony, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, African American, Alberta Jordan, Brookville Garden, capital murder, death penalty, Death Row, Emmoline Jimmerson, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, October 2014, Oktibbeha County, prosecutorial misconduct, unreliable witnesses, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, witnesses
The Bias of White Americans
It seems that racial perceptions of crime have helped to create biased, over-harsh and counterproductive criminal justice policies in the USA. A report published last month* establishes that white Americans significantly overestimate the proportion of crimes committed by racial minorities. For … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, death penalty unconstitutionality, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, media bias, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, police misconduct, punitive sentencing, racial perceptions of crime, racial prejudice, racism, Sentencing Project, USA, victims of crime, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged 2014, African American, capital murder, capital punishment, criminal justice, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, jurors, Latinos, media bias, Mississippi, Nazgol Ghandnoosh, October 2014, punitive sentencing, racial bias, racial perceptions of crime, racism, Sentencing Project, verdict, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Prosecutors’ Belief in their own Infallibility
It is hard to know what is most shocking about the case of mentally disabled Henry Lee McCollum*, exonerated and released earlier this month after spending 30 years on death row in North Carolina. It is shocking that his mental disability … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, doctrine of sovereign immunity, Fly Manning, Henry Lee McCollum, Injustice, mental disability, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, North Carolina, police misconduct, prosecutors, US Supreme Court, USA injustice, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, witness pressured, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, African American, capital murder, Clive Stafford Smith, coerced confession, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, doctrine of sovereign immunity, Fly Manning, Henry Lee McCollum, Injustice, Joe Freeman Britt, Justice Antonin Scalia, Leon Brown, Mississippi, North Carolina, North Carolina Republican Party, prosecutorial misconduct, September 2014, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
‘Prosecutors hid evidence of innocence’
‘Death row inmate: Prosecutors hid evidence of innocence’, headlines this week’s Clarion Ledger article about the case of Jeffrey Havard, who is held alongside Willie on the Parchman death row. Havard is convicted of inflicting sexual abuse on a baby girl … Continue reading
Posted in abusive head trauma, Brookville Garden, capital punishment, criminal justice USA, death penalty, death penalty USA, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, Jeffrey Havard, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, prosecutors, shaken baby syndrome, Steven Hayne, USA injustice, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, abusive head trauma, Brookville Garden murders, capital murder, death penalty, Death Row, Emmoline Jimmerson and Alberta Jordan, Fly Manning, Injustice, Innocent, Jeffrey Harvard, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, Mississippi Supreme Court, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutors, September 2014, shaken baby syndrome, Steven Hayne, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Brookville Garden Case: Oral Argument Permitted
The Mississippi Supreme Court has announced that it will allow oral argument in Willie Jerome Manning’s 1993 case involving the murder of two elderly ladies, Emmoline Jimmerson and Alberta Jordan (the Brookville Garden case). The oral argument is scheduled for Monday, October … Continue reading
Posted in African American, Brookville Garden, capital punishment, death penalty USA, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Mississippi judicial system, Mississippi Supreme Court, perjured witness testimony, prosecutor misconduct, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, African American, Al Jazeera America The System, August 2014, Brookville Garden murders, capital murder, death penalty, Death Row, Emmoline Jimmerson and Alberta Jordan, Fly Manning, Injustice, Kevin Lucious, Likeesha Harris, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court webcast, Oktibbeha County, pressured witnesses, prosecutorial misconduct, SAVE innocents on death row in the USA, State misconduct, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
