This case makes me sick. It is very obvious that the man is innocent, and the prosecutor even went out of his way to concoct the wildest, most absurd counter-attack on an alibi that I have ever heard. A man of modest means, chartering a private jet to fly across the state licketysplit to murder someone and then be home in time for dinner with his pregnant girlfriend? I don't know which is scarier, that this man has not been drummed out of office and into destitution and poverty by every decent person in his jurisdiction, or that the jury actually believed him.
Then there is also this case where a man was prosecuted for having a valid prescription for vicodin that prosecutors and police thought was not medically necessary. Even though the appeals court categorically came down on the side of the defendant, the prosecutors are now moving to try him again!
Lastly, there is the case of Genarlow Wilson where the prosecutor put the poor guy away for ten years for getting oral sex from a girl two years his junior, while both of them were minors. The prosecutor had the ability to just let the case slide since the state legislature had recently passed a law making that go from a felony to a misdemeanor. Instead he chose to go after him without mercy under the old law.
For all of my complaining about police, I have to say that the police are frequently nowhere near as bad as the prosecutors are these days. I think it's a lot fairer to be critical of prosecutors as a profession than police because there are much fewer prosecutors, which makes every bad apple stick out that much more. On top of that, prosecutors are the ones really make the news these days with totally absurd cases that are designed to wreck an innocent person's life. When that's not the case, what they push for in terms of punishment is often frequently outside the boundaries of what is just.
It takes a truly evil individual to concoct some of these really wild stories that are being used to put people away, just to add another notch on a prosecutor's belt. In fact, it is pretty safe to say that when prosecutors are without a real sense of right and wrong, their abuses tend to make those of the police look systematically petty by comparison.
After reading that first story, I can say without a doubt that the girl Crystal Merrill needs psychiatric help! How is it that her paranoid delusions were allowed to lead this so called investigation?
She claims he could read her mind, that she was raped but continued to see him, that Freeman belonged to a "mafia group", that he could make keys from clay, that he was a "higher up" in a secret organization that fought prostitution and drugs, and that he set up special listening devices so that he could learn, of all things, what kind of tractors they used, that he used quills to puff out his tattoos, and that he loved her enough to kill someone despite moving 450 miles away.
I think there are some people who need to be thrown in jail for the remainder of this man's term (which is life)
What bothers me is the fact that the jury didn't throw this out as a bunch of paranoid bovine excrement. The prosecutor's story was so obviously fake that I wish every member of the jury who bought it would sit in prison for the rest of their life. Then, you have the "star witness" who is a raving lunatic. I can't help but wonder if these people just voted to convict so they could go home, rather than take the half a minute of reflection on the evidence required to acquit.