Let me tell you about a man who failed a polygraph, gave a detailed confession to rape and murder, and was ID'd at trial by two eyewitnesses: A slam-dunk case, right? However...
If it were not against the law I would gladly donate money to a vigilante group to take this detective out of his home and have him brutally and mercilessly beaten to death with socks filled with razor blades and spiked-ball-bearings.
I have written previously that FBI forensic evidence is mostly bullcrap. Finally the FBI admits that I was right.
The DeLuna case is one of the most thoroughly documented of any case in American criminal history. Texas loves executing innocent men.
If one wants a perfect case of an innocent man being executed it is this one: Cameron Todd Willingham
Police and prosecutors would rather have the real killer point to an innocent man and thus a good murder case rather than no case at all.
At one time mankind was savage, barbaric, brutal and cruel. They used to execute people.
Many times the police lie, fabricate evidence, force confessions and will do anything even when they know the person to be completely innocent of any wrongdoing. Consider the case of Marcus Jeter...
We know that Pakistanis do not look exactly alike to other Pakistanis, but to white American eyes people with brown skin, mustache and beard, as many in the photo above, look pretty much alike.
If I were on a jury, fingerprint evidence would not leave me with any more moral certainty that the defendant is indeed guilty than any other evidence.
