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State Seeks To Use Alex Murdaugh’s Prior Testimony At Murder Retrial
Prosecutors also renew bids to restrict third-party guilt and polygraph evidence ahead of this week’s pretrial hearing…
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Good reporting Jenn. It is going to be a bumpy ride!
Bumpy ride because prosecutorial misconduct is bound to come up unless swept under the rug.
Here is what I wrote on FITS’ 26 March 2024 story on Alan Wilson’s demand for tougher bonds:
What about the actually innocent forced to live in custody or under horrendous bonds while their rights to speedy trial and/or speedy retrial after a hung jury in a first trial get trampled on? And by none other than Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) who stands gloating behind Alan Wilson as he urges BASICALLY repeal of the Eighth Amendment which bans excessive bail.
Three stark examples from Richland County, South Carolina, in the 21st Century:
(1) Professor Chi Kei Rick Chow who languished in jail for three years because no judge in the length and breadth of South Carolina had the courage to grant him bail until a half-or-majority-black jury found Professor Chow NOT GUILTY for having, in defense of others, shot a gun-toting 14-year-old who had trespassed with that gun on Professor Chow’s store.
(2) Now-retired SC Circuit Judge Lee who got her nomination to the federal bench withdrawn because of the furor over her having granted bail to a defendant who was later also acquitted by a jury in the bakery shooting cases.
and (3) You guessed it, Dr. Marie Faltas who was made to live in an hotel for 50 months while paying rent for an apartment to which she was forbidden from returning, all because Hatchet-for-Hire Heather Weiss had brought against Dr. Faltas pre-known FALSE harassment charges which were, thank God and due to Dr. Faltas’ able pro se advocacy, ultimately dismissed WITH PREJUDICE.
Weiss knew, and could not not have known (double negative intended) that Dr. Faltas was the victim, not the perpetrator of harassment.
But Weiss was paid $70K/year by the City of Columbia to be its agent in then-Barney Giese’s 5th Circuit’s Solicitor’s Office. And Dr. Faltas was then suing the City of Columbia.
So, who pays the piper calls the tune. And the victim got charged instead of the real perpetrator.
You want prosecutors’ tyranny unchecked by the Eighth Amendment?
Be careful! Some day YOU might need that Eighth Amendment.
Who can give Professor Chow his three years back? Who can give Dr. Marie Faltas her 50 months back?
Does anyone even want to?
Because I always propose ennobling solutions, not pounds-of-flesh vengeance, I proposed a “days bank” where the days an ultimately-acquitted criminal defendant served in pre-trial/pre-dismissal custody may be banked and donated to other bail-eligible defendants who cannot afford the monetary bond.
Remember! Perjury and known-false prosecutions are crimes, too, the latter as misconduct in office.
Bumpy ride because prosecutorial misconduct is bound to come up unless swept under the rug.
Here is what I wrote on FITS’ 26 March 2024 story on Alan Wilson’s demand for tougher bonds:
What about the actually innocent forced to live in custody or under horrendous bonds while their rights to speedy trial and/or speedy retrial after a hung jury in a first trial get trampled on? And by none other than Hatchet-for-Hire Heather (“Weiss”) who stands gloating behind Alan Wilson as he urges BASICALLY repeal of the Eighth Amendment which bans excessive bail.
Three stark examples from Richland County, South Carolina, in the 21st Century:
(1) Professor Chi Kei Rick Chow who languished in jail for three years because no judge in the length and breadth of South Carolina had the courage to grant him bail until a half-or-majority-black jury found Professor Chow NOT GUILTY for having, in defense of others, shot a gun-toting 14-year-old who had trespassed with that gun on Professor Chow’s store.
(2) Now-retired SC Circuit Judge Lee who got her nomination to the federal bench withdrawn because of the furor over her having granted bail to a defendant who was later also acquitted by a jury in the bakery shooting cases.
and (3) You guessed it, Dr. Marie Faltas who was made to live in an hotel for 50 months while paying rent for an apartment to which she was forbidden from returning, all because Hatchet-for-Hire Heather Weiss had brought against Dr. Faltas pre-known FALSE harassment charges which were, thank God and due to Dr. Faltas’ able pro se advocacy, ultimately dismissed WITH PREJUDICE.
Weiss knew, and could not not have known (double negative intended) that Dr. Faltas was the victim, not the perpetrator of harassment.
But Weiss was paid $70K/year by the City of Columbia to be its agent in then-Barney Giese’s 5th Circuit’s Solicitor’s Office. And Dr. Faltas was then suing the City of Columbia.
So, who pays the piper calls the tune. And the victim got charged instead of the real perpetrator.
You want prosecutors’ tyranny unchecked by the Eighth Amendment?
Be careful! Some day YOU might need that Eighth Amendment.
Who can give Professor Chow his three years back? Who can give Dr. Marie Faltas her 50 months back?
Does anyone even want to?
Because I always propose ennobling solutions, not pounds-of-flesh vengeance, I proposed a “days bank” where the days an ultimately-acquitted criminal defendant served in pre-trial/pre-dismissal custody may be banked and donated to other bail-eligible defendants who cannot afford the monetary bond.
Remember! Perjury and known-false prosecutions are crimes, too, the latter as misconduct in office.
How is Harpootlian and Griffin’s search coming for the real killer? Remember how many times we heard that….
It could begin, or be catalyzed by, identifying the now-unknown male DNA under Maggie’s LEFT hand fingernails.
As always, the Alex haters and false-conviction-pushers started insulting our intelligence, or at least MY “sub-zero-IQ” by pretending, without basis, that was from Maggie’s earlier-in-the-day manicure or from the bagging boy at Piggly Wiggly.
Well! If so, why is there no foreign DNA under Maggie’s RIGHT hand fingernails then?
My sub-zero-IQ answer is: that is the hand where Maggie held her phone trying to call for help when she saw the shooting cabal arrive; and a member of that cabal wrestled it off her left hand and ran away with it to hide it in the nearest bush, too far for Maggie to reach for it but near enough for that member to return on foot and assist the other members of the shooting cabal “clean” the scene.
Have I been wrong before?
Certainly not when I stood (in those days I could physically stand) in then-SC-Circuit-Judge Lee’s courtroom on 1 December 2009 and told her a conspiracy was being cooked by the City of Columbia to falsely arrest me to thwart my civil lawsuit against the City of Columbia and others.
Judge Lee took the matter under advisement instead of immediately granting me the injunction I was seeking.
And sure enough, the VERY morning that followed, on 2 December 2009, the City of Columbia, authorized by Hatchet-for-Hire Heather Weiss, and accompanied by one Larry Wayne Mason, a defendant in my civil lawsuit, descended on my apartment, ransacked it and robbed it of the evidence I had for my civil lawsuit and arrested me.
Want to know what else I was right about?
Read the federal cases, including why now-Senior-U.S.-District-Judge Terry Wooten recused himself from one of my cases.