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Old 13th February 2019, 04:02 AM   #936
Henri McPhee
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Originally Posted by byn63 View Post
The 4th Circuit Court Judges don't need to know about the dark wool fibers. Once again:

1. UNSOURCED EQUALS FORENSICALLY USELESS
2. The existence of the fibers was in the discovery material
3. The fact that the fibers were NOT brought up at trial is on the defense.
4. the government has no responsibility to point out specific evidentiary items.
To put it politely that's not true. You are lying. The police and Army CID, and even the FBI are apt to jump to conclusions. Murtagh illegally withheld the exculpatory evidence until the defense found out about it after the trial and Stombaugh and Malone made up the evidence.

There is a reasonable analysis of the way Bernie Segal and Dr. Thornton thought about the information they were given about the forensics in the case at this website by the FBI agent Madden:

http://www.crimearchives.net/1979_ma...ff_madden.html


Thornton admitted that both of them, Segal and Thornton, rather complacently thought MacDonald would be acquitted and that it would have taken about six months to properly examine and test all the forensics. They were also taken by surprise when a trial date was announced, after a decision by the misguided Supreme Court.

Thornton was only granted some rather inadequate lab facilities in Raleigh and no access to the lab notes of Stombaugh and Frier and Glisson or Kathy Bond, or Browning, were granted to him by Murtagh and Dupree. He was only able to concentrate on the pajama top and the bloodstains on the bedsheet which was the priority. The pajama fibers, and hairs, which later became crucial for the jury were largely ignored by Thornton.

The problem with that Madden analysis is that it was not profound enough. The corrupt bias by the judges, or the lack of extremely competent judges, or the proven contempt of court and bias by the foreman of the jury, was never addressed. It was a mistrial and kangaroo court and gross miscarriage of justice.

Last edited by Henri McPhee; 13th February 2019 at 04:07 AM.
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