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US Sixth Amendment extended

March 31, 2010 By Alice

US Sixth Amendment extended ensuring that immigrants have a constitutional right to be told by their lawyers whether pleading guilty to a crime could lead to their deportation, the Supreme Court said Wednesday. The high court’s ruling extends the Constitution’s Sixth Amendment guarantee of ”effective assistance of counsel” in criminal cases to immigration advice, especially […]

Filed Under: Miscellaneous Tagged With: Effective Assistance of Counsel, Padilla v. Kentucky, Sixth Amendment

Zeigler, Part VI

March 30, 2010 By Alice

Zeigler, Part VI: On Preliminary Crime Scene Approach & Investigation Orange County Sheriff’s Office Detective Donald Frye was on duty in the Crime against Persons Section. After investigating the crime scene, he concluded that these four people did not die at the same time. With that, I agree. According to Frye, Mays had been shot […]

Filed Under: Miscarriages of Justice, Zeigler Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Capital Punishment, Florida, Forensics, Gun Fire, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Unsolved Homicide, William Thomas Zeigler

Zeigler, Part V

March 30, 2010 By Alice

Zeigler, Part V: The Bodies Mr. Charlie Mays was savagely beaten, his face disfigured with blood coming through his skull, and he had been shot twice in the abdomen (once from the front and once from the back). Judging from the blood splatters, Mays had been beaten to death where he was found. The killer […]

Filed Under: Forensics, Miscarriages of Justice, Unsolved, Zeigler Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Autopsy, Ballistics, Capital Punishment, Crime Scene, Death Row, DNA, Evidence, Expert Testimony, Finger Printing, Florida, Forensics, Gun Fire, Investigations Division, Miscarriage of Justice, Police, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Unsolved Homicide, Victim, William Thomas Zeigler, Witnesses, Wrongful Convictions

Zeigler, Part IV

March 29, 2010 By Alice

William Th. Zeigler with his wife Eunice Edwards-Zeigler

On March 12, 1976, Robert Eagan, then state attorney, wrote to Mayor Marvin Peele, the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, and the Orange County Court House, that he is very concerned about the way the evidence in the Zeigler case is being handled. The entire letter is here: In Dec 1975, a quadruple murder took place […]

Filed Under: Miscarriages of Justice, Zeigler Tagged With: Capital Punishment, Crime Scene, FBI, Florida, Gun Fire, Miscarriage of Justice, William Thomas Zeigler, Wrongful Convictions

Hawley Harvey Crippen

March 27, 2010 By Alice

Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen

I enjoyed reading Crippen by John Boyne about of course, Hawley Harvey Crippen. On October 18, 1910, almost 100 years ago, the murder trial of Dr. Hawley Harvey Crippen started at the Old Bailey, UK. It gripped the public, as had his flight with his mistress who was dressed as a boy, and the police chase across the […]

Filed Under: Miscarriages of Justice, Unsolved Tagged With: Actual Innocence, Autopsy, Book Reviews, Capital Punishment, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Hawley Harvey Crippen, Identification, Miscarriage of Justice

Hagy pleads no contest, sentenced to life

March 26, 2010 By Alice

William R. Hagy Jr., convicted of first-degree murder for strangling a Roanoke woman in 1984, pleaded no contest today to the 1985 murder of another woman in her Old Southwest home and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Hagy, 49, was sentenced to two concurrent life terms by Roanoke Circuit Judge William Broadhurst. Under a plea […]

Filed Under: Cold Case News, Solved Tagged With: Crime Scene, DNA, Expert Testimony, Forensics, Victim, Virginia, William Hagy Jr

DNA: a civil right?

March 26, 2010 By Alice

The Houston Chronicle has an interesting article related on DNA as related  to the Skinner case. It discusses that the United States Supreme Court (USSC) must consider if inmates’ requests for DNA testing can be handled as civil rights claims — a question that has split the nation’s top federal courts. The USSC on Thursday […]

Filed Under: Forensics Tagged With: Capital Punishment, DNA, Evidence, Forensics, Henry Skinner, Miscarriage of Justice, Prosecutorial Misconduct, Texas, Wrongful Convictions

Update Ray Hagy trial

March 25, 2010 By Alice

William Ray Hagy Jr., who was convicted this week of one 1980s murder and is accused of another, is to plead no contest Friday to resolve the remaining charges against him, said his attorney, Gary Lumsden. Ray Hagy, 49, also is to be sentenced Friday, the Roanoke Circuit Court Clerk’s office confirmed. Ray Hagy, who […]

Filed Under: Cold Case News, Forensics Tagged With: Crime Scene, DNA, Expert Testimony, Forensics, Victim, Virginia, William Hagy Jr

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William Thomas Zeigler

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On March 31, 2016, an evidentiary hearing was held to request touch DNA testing. On July 18, 2016, Judge Whitehead denied that request.

On November 23, 2016, an appeal was filed with the Florida Supreme Court. On April 21, 2017, the Florida Supreme Court denied the request for touch DNA analysis.

On May 8, 2017 a motion for a rehearing with the US Supreme Court was filed. It was denied November 13, 2017.

In the summer of 2019, the appeal for DNA testing to the Florida Conviction Integrity Unit was denied.

Richard Lapointe

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In March 2015, the Connecticut State Supreme Court ordered a new trial for Richard lapointe. On Oct 2, 2015, International Wrongful Conviction Day, Richard was set free. The judge ruled that he cannot be retried for the 1987 rape-murder of Mrs. Bernice Martin. Richard Lapointe died on Aug 4, 2020 of Covid19 complications.

In 1987, someone killed Bernice Martin. I hope that she will not become a forgotten file.
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