Points to Someone Else

https://www.change.org/p/tony-rackauckas-exonerate-kenneth-clair-dna-evidence-points-to-someone-else

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"Exonerate Kenneth Clair: DNA Evidence Points to Someone Else On November 15, 1984, 5-year-old Jerrod Hessling witnessed the beating, rape, and stabbing death of his babysitter. When asked to describe the killer, he said, without hesitation, that it was a white male. Another child present during the murder saw a white man’s tattooed arm reach inside the house to open a sliding glass door. Yet somehow, the lawyers in the case determined that Kenneth Clair, a dark-skinned African American homeless man who had been squatting next door, was the killer. When Jerrod saw him on the witness stand and insisted they had the wrong man, the prosecution chalked it up to youth and trauma, and pursued the death penalty for Kenneth Clair. To this day, 31 years later, Mr. Clair sits on San Quentin’s death row, awaiting his execution date. But that’s not the biggest bombshell in this case -- in 2008, forensic testing revealed that DNA found on the murder victim did not match Clair’s. DNA taken from a glove found at the scene also did not match. It matches another individual, but the Orange County District Attorney insists that “confidentiality is required” concerning this evidence, and for 7 years now, the identity of the person whose DNA does match the swab has remained a secret. In the interest of justice, we must call on the Orange County DA and California state lawmakers to demand that the DNA evidence be turned over to Kenneth Clair’s defense. Since his conviction, Clair has struggled with ineffective counsel. He wanted his lawyers to work at investigating the crime, rather than simply trying to free him from death row, but they never did. His plea for substitute counsel even made it to the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012, and he did eventually receive a switch of counsel. Finally, he is being represented by people who are dedicated to his exoneration. But their hands are tied without this crucial DNA evidence, and more of Clair’s precious life is wasting away in prison as they fight to obtain it. Please sign my petition if you feel that the disclosure of the identity of a possible “person of interest” is something that the prosecution should not be allowed to withhold."

How is this oppressive inhuman situation even possible? It boggles the mind to think that in the greatest most just country in the history of mankind, conclusive evidence exonerating a falsely convicted individual and implicating someone else is kept secret for 7 years now and the falsely convicted individual continues to be incarcerated and primed for execution. Doesn't that somehow violate any laws? If not, how is that even possible, because it simply amounts to false imprisonment since the day DNA evidence was revealed. And how is the real murderer allowed to roam free for 7 years??? And that's without even going into the fact that two eyewitness testimonies were thrown out during the trial 31 years ago and an innocent man was convicted on zero evidence. WTH?


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12/21/2015 8:32:21 AM

if he got out and then murdered someone, I wonder if he could get credit for time served and immediately walk?

12/21/2015 9:10:45 AM

he should get tens of millions from the government

and the corrupt prosecutors and other officials responsible for his current incarceration should be put away for life.

12/21/2015 9:24:48 AM

*rolls up the DA's sleeve, sees a tattoo*

IT WAS YOU, IT WAS YOU ALL ALONG

12/21/2015 10:10:41 AM