Re:Missouri executes a man despite prosecutors' push to over...
by JumpCrisscross on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @03:05AM
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> is pretty much the smoking gun
The evidence undeniably places him in proximity to the crime. But it doesn't prove he did it.
It might have, had the cops not been so sloppy with the evidence as to mess up the fingerprints on the knife. But the point of a smoking gun is that it's smoking and it's the gun. Not random stuff that was also in the house when the gun was smoking.
Re:Missouri executes a man despite prosecutors' push to over...
by awb on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @03:17AM
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Multiple witnesses say he confessed to the murder, including his girlfriend and fellow inmates with the later supposedly having non-public information of details of the crime
The evidence undeniably places him in proximity to the crime. But it doesn't prove he did it.
It might have, had the cops not been so sloppy with the evidence as to mess up the fingerprints on the knife. But the point of a smoking gun is that it's smoking and it's the gun. Not random stuff that was also in the house when the gun was smoking.