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Tag Archives: prosecutor misconduct
Racially Motivated Manipulation
Curtis Flowers is an African American man incarcerated alongside Willie Manning on Mississippi’s death row. The way the legal system has operated in Flowers’ case has been described as “nothing more than one human being tormenting another because he can.” … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, criminal justice, Curtis Flowers, death penalty, jurors, prosecutor misconduct, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, black jurors, capital punishment, criminal justice, Curtis Flowers, death penalty, Doug Evans, Fly Manning, July 2019, juror strikes, jurors, Mississippi, prosecutor misconduct, racial discrimination, skepticism, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, Winona
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
Disproportionate Harm
Those wrongly convicted of murder suffer great harm. They may spend years in prison under threat of execution; they may even lose their lives. Far from being perpetrators, they are additional victims of the perpetrators. A report published last year, based … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, exonerations, Mississippi, USA, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2018, African Americans, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, exonerations, Fly Manning, institutional racism, January 2018, Mississippi, National Registry of Exonerations, official misconduct, police misconduct, prosecutor misconduct, Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States, racial discrimination, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, witness tampering, wrongful convictions
A Dirty Secret
It is a “dirty secret”, known by few, that the American death penalty system is “specifically engineered to ensure that those who are convicted stay convicted, guilty or not.”[i] This is how it works. Death sentences routinely result from poor defense … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, defense attorneys, Fly Manning, Injustice, Mississippi, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged AEDPA, African American, capital defense lawyers, capital punishment, criminal justice, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, habeas corpus petition, Injustice, Mississippi, October 2017, Parchman, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, Richard North Patterson, torture, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction
Premeditated Attempted Murder
Willie Manning’s prosecutor, Forrest Allgood, was implicated by a recanting witness (Kevin Lucious) in Willie’s 1993 case: “Luscious said District Attorney Forrest Allgood… told Luscious that he would not charge him with capital murder if he cooperated.” And in Willie’s … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishmant, death penalty abuse, Mississippi, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Tagged African American, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, Forrest Allgood, Injustice, Jim Williams, John Thompson, July 2016, Louisiana, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, US Supreme Court, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Allgood’s Departure: Good News!
Another year has passed: today it is exactly twenty-one years since Willie Manning first entered death row. This year has been a significant one for Willie. In April charges for his 1993 case were dropped, effectively exonerating him in that … Continue reading
Posted in African American, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, Forrest Allgood, Mississippi, prosecutor misconduct, USA, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, Brookville Garden murders, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, DNA testing, elections, FBI hair testimony, Fly Manning, Forrest Allgood, innocence, Kevin Lucious, Mississippi, November 2015, prosecutor misconduct, Radley Balko, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
Prosecutors: Many Bad Apples
The Daily Beast’s series of articles on prosecutors this summer was alarming. This summary gives a taste of the content: “American prosecutors are powerful officials. They have the power to deprive people of their liberty, destroy their reputations, and even take … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, death penalty, Mississippi, prosecutorial misconduct, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, capital punishment, death penalty, election, FBI hair testimony, Forrest Allgood, Judge Alex Kozinski, Kennedy Brewer, Levon Brooks, Mississippi, prosecutor immunity, prosecutor misconduct, prosecutorial misconduct, Sabrina Butler, September 2015, Tyler Edmonds, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
False Testimony Amplified
The issue of forensic hair testimony in Willie’s remaining case was clarified last month by D.H. Kaye in three posts on his blog, Forensic Science, Statistics & the Law (see here, here and here). Kaye discussed the errors made by the … Continue reading
Posted in Fly Manning, forensic testimony, Injustice, Mississippi, USA, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning
Tagged African American, American justice, August 2015, D H Kaye, FBI ballistics testimony, FBI hair testimony review, flawed forensic testimony, Fly Manning, hair testimony, Injustice, junk science, miscarriages of justice, Mississippi, prosecutor misconduct, Robert Dunham, USA, Willie Fly Manning, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful convictions
‘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
“We were paid to lie and say that he did it.”
In the course of the Al Jazeera program, Flawed Forensics (episode 3 in the Al Jazeera series, The System), the documentary team investigates Willie’s second case, involving the murder of two elderly African American women in 1993. The program highlights … Continue reading
Posted in Al Jazeera, Brookville Garden murders, capital punishment, confession made under pressure, criminal justice USA, death penalty, Death Row, Fly Manning, incentivized witness testimony, Injustice, Innocent, law enforcement USA, Mississippi corruption, Mississippi judicial system, perjured witness testimony, prosecutor misconduct, recanting witness, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, witness pressured, wrongful convictions
Tagged 2014, African American, Brookville Garden murders, capital punishment, death penalty, Death Row, Emmoline Jimmerson and Alberta Jordan, Fly Manning, Forrest Allgood, incentivized witness testimony, Injustice, injustice in Mississippi, June 2014, Kevin Lucious, Likeesha Harris, Mississippi, perjury, prosecutor misconduct, Sheriff Dolph Bryan, Willie Jerome Manning, Willie Manning, wrongful conviction
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