Alfre Dwayne Brown is convicted of murdering a veteran police officer, and a woman who had just giving birth. They were murdered during an armed robbery between three other men, possibly including Brown.
Throughout the trial Brown stayed silent as he listened to the lawyers throw is life around. He finally spoke up, explaining that he was not guilty of this crime. He was quickly silenced, and assigned to death row.
The closing argument was that new information confirming what Brown said was brought to the table. A judge agreed to a new trial, but nothing has happened past then. The trial is at a stand still, with Brown still on death row.
This article was published many years after the original event in 2003, which is pretty funny because it lets the reader see how long Brown has spent in jail, with an open trial.
Brown's alibi was that he called from his girlfriend home to another workplace, and after many years of searching the phone record was found in a garage.
His alibi was unconfirmed for so long that when the piece of paper was found, they can dismiss it pretty easily.
The spring trial ended with opening up the case, but it has gotten zero traction. The judge said okay, but since this man has waited this long on DEATH ROW, he can wait a little longer.
I think she is right because reopening a case takes so much. Tracking everyone down again, and many other processes. I think that the prosecutors are trying to sweep this under the metaphorical rug.
The appeals court seemed to be exhausted with the concept of this case, and are just trying to close it permanently.
To get the ball rolling. To start the trial her in Austin, because Brown can still be innocent.
I think this story can only end badly for brown because even if he gets out, he is labeled as a criminal from death row, and he has spent probably the most productive years of his adult life sitting silently in a cell awaiting a fate he cannot control.
This article is really upsetting. I think that it was supposed to provoke a reaction, but I don't think it will provoke anything. Things like this trial happen so much to people of color, and at this point, the type of people who read this newspaper, are probably tired of this kind of injustice, Because that is what it is, Injustice.
3. The question was WHEN was the closing argument and jury decision rendered. But you note the timespan between decision and article, which was the point. Of course the decision was rendered in 2005 not 2003 as you write.
ReplyDelete8. The second document, which you do not mention, is that the prosecutors requested the phone records that were found in the investigators' garage.
9, The appeals court did nothing, did not respond, for almost a year.
12. You don't really discuss the style in which the article is written although I appreciate your honest reaction noted here.
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