the real issue here is that 7 of the 9 witnesses recanted and said that their testimoney was FORCED out of them by poliece that coached them to put the blame on troy davis. that ALONE is grounds for a mistrial at the very least. but of the 2 witnesses that didnt recant, one of them is the other prime suspect.
legally speaking the testimony of a suspect used agaisnt another suspect is ALWAYS put under a shaded light, this wasnt done here.
now, the jurors didnt know that 7 of the 9 recanted, the jurors were just given 9 people who said ‘yup, he did it’, but were never then told, but 7 say cops made them say it, and one of the 2 left may have also done it. so the jury was abused, lied to, and mislead.
moreover, the witnesses were the ONLY evidence of any ‘merit’ that the state had.
with all this in place, regardless of his actual guilt, or any other crimes he has/might have/could have committed the case was a kangaroo court at best and a total violation of his civil liberties.
and someone here said ‘he isa cretin and may have murdered at least oen other person’ so fucking what? that wasnt the issue. i have done some pretty hard drugs in my life, now i am completely clean and sober, does this mean that i should stilll serve a jail sentence just because a cop wants to pin a CURRENT drug issue on me to up his arrest record?
him being, as you say, a ‘cretin’, does not make it ok to find him guilty of something based on no actual legal evidence. him MAYBE killing someone else at another time in his life doesnt mean that he should be found guilty of killing a different person.
now i know this case doesnt seem to matter to some people, and people like carmaingy think its ok for people to be killed because life is unfair and he is a sociopath fool with no regard for human decency, but for people who want their own civil and human rights to not be trodden upon… this case is important. it is a CLEAR sign of institutionalized racism.