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As explained in
his Opening Brief, the Government theory adopted by the panel relies
on highly illogical coincidences:
To accept the Government’s theory of guilt, one must accept that MacDonald created a story about a woman with a floppy hat being with intruders who killed his family, and that by coincidence such a woman did exist in the community on that very night, and that by coincidence that woman would then falsely confess repeatedly (both before, during, and after the 1979 trial) to being present during the murders with the murderers in a way that was entirely consistent with the story that MacDonald supposedly made up from whole cloth. In addition, one would have to accept that one of the men identified by Stoeckley as one of the killers in her many confessions, Greg Mitchell, would by coincidence himself falsely confess repeatedly to taking part in the killings, in a way that is entirely consistent with the story supposedly created by MacDonald. What are the chances of this occurring?
(Opening Brief at 35). The panel opinion does not address this point in...…