Anti Federalist
01-03-2011, 04:45 PM
Because of cases like the following, going all the way back to 1989.
TLDR version:
Woman's son (most likely) commits horrendous quadruple murder.
Woman's son shoots it out with cops, is killed, when they come to arrest him.
Cops and prosecutors, pissed they have nobody to punish, plants fingerprint evidence, implicating the woman in this crime, woman is convicted and goes to jail for 44 years.
Idiot state cop brags to FBI interviewer during a job interview that he planted this woman's fingerprints. Probes, convictions and scandal ensues, women is released from prison.
Woman has been suing for damages since then.
That happens all the time, more often than you want to believe.
Dead men (or women in this case) tell no tales, and that's the way the state likes it.
And that's why I won't support state enforced capital punishment.
If the murdered family had righteously shot this woman's son while the crime was in progress, that would be a different story, of course.
N.Y. court upholds $250,000 award to Shirley Kinge
http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20101224/NEWS01/12240348/N-Y-court-upholds-250-000-award-to-Shirley-Kinge
ALBANY -- A midlevel court has upheld a judge's $250,000 award to a woman falsely implicated in the gruesome murders of the Harris family in Dryden shortly before Christmas in 1989
The Appellate Division panel on Thursday declined to raise the award to 74-year-old Shirley Turner Kinge for malicious prosecution and negligent supervision of a State Police investigator who later admitted planting her fingerprints on a gas can. The gas can was left at the house where the Harris family was shot and their bodies set on fire at their Ellis Hollow Road home in Dryden.
TLDR version:
Woman's son (most likely) commits horrendous quadruple murder.
Woman's son shoots it out with cops, is killed, when they come to arrest him.
Cops and prosecutors, pissed they have nobody to punish, plants fingerprint evidence, implicating the woman in this crime, woman is convicted and goes to jail for 44 years.
Idiot state cop brags to FBI interviewer during a job interview that he planted this woman's fingerprints. Probes, convictions and scandal ensues, women is released from prison.
Woman has been suing for damages since then.
That happens all the time, more often than you want to believe.
Dead men (or women in this case) tell no tales, and that's the way the state likes it.
And that's why I won't support state enforced capital punishment.
If the murdered family had righteously shot this woman's son while the crime was in progress, that would be a different story, of course.
N.Y. court upholds $250,000 award to Shirley Kinge
http://www.theithacajournal.com/article/20101224/NEWS01/12240348/N-Y-court-upholds-250-000-award-to-Shirley-Kinge
ALBANY -- A midlevel court has upheld a judge's $250,000 award to a woman falsely implicated in the gruesome murders of the Harris family in Dryden shortly before Christmas in 1989
The Appellate Division panel on Thursday declined to raise the award to 74-year-old Shirley Turner Kinge for malicious prosecution and negligent supervision of a State Police investigator who later admitted planting her fingerprints on a gas can. The gas can was left at the house where the Harris family was shot and their bodies set on fire at their Ellis Hollow Road home in Dryden.