Monday, December 13, 2004

Crimes by the State - Police not playing fair!

The Southern California case of a man who was falsely convicted, on the testimony of a jail-house snitch, and the withholding of exculpatory evidence by the District Attorney, was overturned. After 24 years of incarceration, Thomas Goldstein was released earlier this year but has filed suit accusing the police of arresting him without probable cause, and Long Beach of violating his civil rights. more

Jailhouse informant Glen McCormick, who testified in the 1994 trial of Kenneth Wyniemko, recently told Wyniemko's lawyers that a police detective left him alone in an interrogation room with the police report. From the report, he said, he concocted a lie about Wyniemko boasting about the rape in jail. more