Category: Kit Martin

Was there an eyewitness?

There are many examples of detectives from the Christian County Sherrif’s office making mistakes in the investigation of the Pembroke murders. From contaminated evidence to false testimony to mistakes made

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A Missed Opportunity

As a defense lawyer, you need to be able to think on your feet. You need to be ready for possible objections. In Kit’s trial, there was one specific objection

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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

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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

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