Hearsay
In my last post, the first nail in the coffin, I showed how Judge Atkins made (in my opinion) an incorrect ruling regarding hearsay evidence. In this post, you can listen to the damaging hearsay evidence that ultimately convinced a jury to ignore all exculpatory evidence and convict the wrong person. As you listen to […]
The first nail in the coffin
There are a lot of ways wrongful convictions happen: faulty expert testimony, false confessions, bad police work, prosecutorial misconduct, etc. In the case of Christian “Kit” Martin, the most damaging testimony at trial, and the testimony most likely to have led to a guilty verdict, involved hearsay evidence. In a later post, I will show […]