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Tag Archives: Oktibbeha County
DNA Testing Resumes
It seems that Judge Howard’s Scheduling Order, issued in February, is working! Willie Manning must be relieved that more hairs from his case are at last being screened at the Bode Technology lab. The lab anticipates that this stage of the … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, DNA testing, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, April 2019, Bode Technology, capital punishment, death penalty, DNA testing, Fly Manning, forensics, hair evidence, Judge Howard, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, Scheduling Order, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
The Puzzle of Jordan’s Strange Testimony
Earl Jordan, was a key witness at Willie Manning’ Steckler-Miller trial: he told the court that he heard Willie confessing that both he and Jessie ‘One Wing’ Lawrence had committed the murders. Jordan recanted his trial testimony a few years … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Earl Jordan, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Earl Jordan, false testimony, February 2018, Fly Manning, Forrest Allgood, Jimmerson-Jordan case, Kevin Lucious, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, Paula Hathorn, Police Captain Lindley, police misconduct, prosecutor misconduct, Sheriff Dolph Bryan, Starkville, Steckler-Miller case, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
The Validation of Lies*
At Willie Manning’s Steckler-Miller trial, Earl Jordan was the only witness who testified that Willie had confessed to committing the murders. But there were huge problems with Jordan’s credibility. Willie’s “confession”, as recounted by Jordan, involved the highly improbable scenario … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Mississippi, polygraph, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged Anthony Reed, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, December 2017, Earl Jordan, Fly Manning, jailhouse snitches, Jessie Lawrence, Johnny Lowery, Jon Steckler, lie detector, Mississippi, Mississippi Supreme Court, Oktibbeha County, polygraph, prosecutorial misconduct, Tiffany Miller, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Frank Parker: Snitch Testimony
At the trial where Willie Manning was convicted of murdering two students, Frank Parker testified that he had overheard Willie saying he “sold the gun on the street”. Thus Willie was linked to the murders, and specifically to the missing … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Fly Manning, incentivized witnesses, jailhouse informant, jailhouse snitch, Mississippi, snitch testimony, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged capital punishment, death penalty, Fly Manning, Frank Parker, incentivized witness testimony, jailhouse informant, jailhouse snitches, July 2017, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, police misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, Radley Balko, Sheriff Dolph Bryan, snitch testimony, Starkville, Texas, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Testimony Procured Unfairly
Oktibbeha County Sheriff Dolph Bryan investigated both Willie Manning’s cases: in both cases he enlisted and managed state witnesses by unfair means. 1993 Jimmerson-Jordan case Bryan, together with Starkville Police Captain David Lindley, asked Kevin Lucious to sign a false … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, death penalty, Fly Manning, Injustice, USA, Willie Manning, witness coercion
Tagged April 2017, capital punishment, coerced testimony, criminal justice, death penalty, Fly Manning, Injustice, intimidation, Jimmerson-Jordan case, Kevin Lucious, Likeesha Harris, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, Paula Hathorn, Sheriff Dolph Bryan, Steckler-Miller case, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, witness coercion
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The Connection with Lynchings
The Movement for Black Lives’ new policy platform is clear about the death penalty’s racism: “The death penalty in the U.S. was designed to bring lynching into the courtroom and has targeted Blacks and other people of color and poor … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, criminal justice, death penalty, Mississippi, Movement for Black Lives, racism, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, August 2016, capital punishment, death penalty, Fly Manning, Forrest Allgood, lynchings, Mississippi, Movement for Black Lives, Oktibbeha County, Police Chief David Lindley, police misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, racism, Sheriff Dolph Bryant, Starkville, State misconduct, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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A Two-person Crime
A radio blog* recorded the day before Willie Jerome Manning’s scheduled execution in May, 2013, features Vincent Hill, a private investigator and former policeman. Hill re-examined the evidence in Willie’s 1992 case, and found many omissions and inconsistencies. Here David Skato, … Continue reading
Posted in African American, America, capital punishmant, criminal justice, death peanlty, DNA testing, innocence, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Starkville, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, death penalty, DNA testing, Earl Jordan, fingerprint comparison, Fly Manning, Injustice, jailhouse snitches, Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller, June 2016, law enforcement, Mississippi, Mississippi State University, Oktibbeha County, police, snitch testimony, The Other Side of Justice, Vincent Hill, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
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“Willie wouldn’t bust a grape.”
Today Willie Jerome Manning is 48. This is his 23rd birthday on death row. When Willie was a child there was little money to celebrate birthdays. A childhood friend of his family, David Skato, recalls the ‘poverty stricken’ community where they … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death peanlty, defense attorneys, Fly Manning, Mississippi, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital defense attorneys, capital murder, character witnesses, David Skato, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, Injustice, June 2016, Mary Prater, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, Starkville, The Other Side of Justice, USA, Vincent Hill, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Why was there no Blood?
A radio blog recorded on the eve of Willie Jerome Manning’s scheduled execution in May, 2013, is illuminating: a private investigator and former policeman re-examines the evidence in Willie’s 1992 case, finding many omissions and inconsistencies.* The investigator on the … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishmant, criminal justice, death penalty, Fly Manning, law enforcement, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, police, USA, Willie Jerome Manning Mississippi Death Row, Willie Manning, witness testimony, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, Blog Talk Radio, capital punishment, death penalty, Fly Manning, Injustice, innocence, Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller, law enforcement, March 2016, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, Oktibbeha County, police, police investigations, The Other Side of Justice, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, witness testimony, wrongful convictions
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How Would Willie Have Gotten Home?
Ex-policeman, Vincent Hill, has grave concerns about the police investigation that followed the murders of which Willie Manning is convicted. Hill believes that the murders of two Mississippi State University students had the stamp of a crime of passion, as opposed … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishmant, death penalty, Fly Manning, Mississippi, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Fly Manning, Injustice, innocence, Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller, law enforcement, March 2016, Mississippi, Mississippi State Penitentiary, Mississippi State University, murders, Oktibbeha County, police, police investigation, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
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