JSM's BEGGING FOR BAN THREAD #19 8/05/10 - 8/27/10

[Missiontoconvict]

This is very touching and powerful.  Kleenex required.  Prepare for huge goosebumps.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/KTb6qdPu8JE?fs=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/KTb6qdPu8JE?fs=1</a>

[no rose colored glasses]

This is very touching and powerful.  Kleenex required.  Prepare for huge goosebumps.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/KTb6qdPu8JE?fs=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/KTb6qdPu8JE?fs=1</a>

[trimmonthelake]

Thanks Mission! 

[Missiontoconvict]

[Thank-you, I sure hope the time goes by and that her meds help. She will go in two weeks to get another blood test, because lithium has to be monitored. One thing which is very good, we were worried about diabetes, and the doctor said her last blood work showed nothing to think she may have it. My husband's father and brother had it very bad.

Thank goodness she tested negative for diabetes. 

[Missiontoconvict]

OMG I could come through the screen and hug you.  I am just not thinking clearly and forgot about my Little Noses, saline drops. I ran to the bathroom and put some in my nose. Thank-you for bringing this up. The product is for little kids, but it helps me so much, and totally forgot I had it. 

I'm so happy to have helped.  I hope you are feeling some relief after using those drops.

[Missiontoconvict]

It is an art to toast the marshmallow just perfectly      I will now go back to read from DeDe's ex boyfriend  Interesting  And I should get some work done around here. 

Is he back?  Is it really him?  I don't know what to think.

It is him, and he made a post this morning. I know what I'm thinking here, but don't want to say 

I think I might know what you are thinking and I may be thinking the same. 

[Missiontoconvict]

Thanks Mission! 

[no rose colored glasses]

OMG I could come through the screen and hug you.  I am just not thinking clearly and forgot about my Little Noses, saline drops. I ran to the bathroom and put some in my nose. Thank-you for bringing this up. The product is for little kids, but it helps me so much, and totally forgot I had it. 

I'm so happy to have helped.  I hope you are feeling some relief after using those drops.

I am, and can't believe that I forgot about those drops 

[no rose colored glasses]

It is an art to toast the marshmallow just perfectly      I will now go back to read from DeDe's ex boyfriend  Interesting  And I should get some work done around here. 

Is he back?  Is it really him?  I don't know what to think.

It is him, and he made a post this morning. I know what I'm thinking here, but don't want to say 

I think I might know what you are thinking and I may be thinking the same. 

I think so 

[no rose colored glasses]

I looked out the balcony door and noticed where is the umbrella that is supposed to be in the table? I ran downstairs and it is sitting ever so nicely in the yard. It catapulted in the yard, didn't break anything and it isn't broken at all 

[Missiontoconvict]

I looked out the balcony door and noticed where is the umbrella that is supposed to be in the table? I ran downstairs and it is sitting ever so nicely in the yard. It catapulted in the yard, didn't break anything and it isn't broken at all 

Is it windy there?

[joesamas mama]

I love bonfires
We lost a huge hickory tree to lightning and it was cut up and put into the fire pit. The pit was 20'x15' and 6' deep. The pile was a good 6' above that. Friends came up from Florida and had a fit saying that they pay a fortune for a little bundle of hickory to smoke things on the grill. I got a chain and the tractor and pulled some off the top of the pile and cut it into short poeces so they could load up their trunks to take home. When we lit the fire it was awesome and at 3:00Am could finally get close enough to cook hotdogs LMAO We also cut canes and bundle them and toss them into the fire.They explode and spark just like fireworks..FUN

Wooo Hooo it is so much fun.  Love the hickory wood for our smoker and our charcoal grill.  We go to Kansas each year for the Nascar Race and stay with friends in Missouri, they load us up with hickory chunks to take back home it adds wonderful flavor when smoking or grilling.

Sounds like so much fun Mission. Everytime I would go to Nascar at the TMS, it would pour down rain, so I stopped going.  I think I was a bad omen with a cloud over my head.

[joesamas mama]

This is very touching and powerful.  Kleenex required.  Prepare for huge goosebumps.

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/KTb6qdPu8JE?fs=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/KTb6qdPu8JE?fs=1</a>

OMG Mission. I was already having a pity party and this made me cry even more. Thank you for sharing and God bless those soldiers that fought for ME!

[joesamas mama]

I looked out the balcony door and noticed where is the umbrella that is supposed to be in the table? I ran downstairs and it is sitting ever so nicely in the yard. It catapulted in the yard, didn't break anything and it isn't broken at all 

Wow!! That's good it isn't broken No Rose.

[no rose colored glasses]

I looked out the balcony door and noticed where is the umbrella that is supposed to be in the table? I ran downstairs and it is sitting ever so nicely in the yard. It catapulted in the yard, didn't break anything and it isn't broken at all 

Is it windy there?

No, but every afternoon there are some gusts that just appear out of nowhere, and I had forgotten to close it down this morning.

[no rose colored glasses]

I looked out the balcony door and noticed where is the umbrella that is supposed to be in the table? I ran downstairs and it is sitting ever so nicely in the yard. It catapulted in the yard, didn't break anything and it isn't broken at all 

Wow!! That's good it isn't broken No Rose.

Yes, that was a surprise 

[Missiontoconvict]

  Off to see the......................hopefully not a wizard.  The sun is shining and it is hot and humid.  Home to more clean up.  Have a good evening everyone.

JSM I am glad you enjoyed the video. 

[trimmonthelake]

Did ya'll see this story?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ginVyvyjHoUkMCDDWKgMWh9ujrVQD9HM560O3
Review finds flawed NC cases, including executions

By MARTHA WAGGONER (AP) – 59 minutes ago

RALEIGH, N.C. — Analysts at North Carolina's crime lab omitted, overstated or falsely reported blood evidence in dozens of cases, including three that ended in executions and another where two men were imprisoned for murdering Michael Jordan's father, according to a scathing review released Wednesday.

The government-ordered inquest by two former FBI officials found that agents of the State Bureau of Investigation repeatedly aided prosecutors in obtaining convictions over a 16-year period, mostly by misrepresenting blood evidence and keeping critical notes from defense attorneys.

The review of blood evidence in cases from 1987 to 2003 by two former assistant directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation calls for a thorough examination of 190 criminal cases, stating information that could have helped defendants was sometimes misrepresented or withheld.

"It impacted the decisions that were made — it could have," report author Chris Swecker said Wednesday. "Let me step back and make sure you understand: It could have resulted in situations where information that was material and favorable to the defendant was not disclosed."

The report does not conclude that innocent people were convicted, noting the evidence wasn't always used at trials and defendants may have admitted to crimes. But it states prosecutors and defense lawyers need to check whether tainted lab reports helped lead to confessions or pleas.

Attorney General Roy Cooper ordered the review in March after an SBI agent testified the crime lab once had a policy of excluding complete blood test results from reports offered to defense lawyers before trials. The existence of the policy was later confirmed by a former SBI director. Agent Duane Deaver's testimony led to the exoneration of a murder convict imprisoned nearly 17 years.

Cooper said Wednesday that he will send the cases cited in the report back to the counties where they were tried for review. "This report is troubling. It describes a practice that should have been unacceptable then and is unacceptable now," he said during a news conference.

The review found 230 cases in which eight SBI analysts filed reports that, at best, were incomplete. Of those, 190 resulted in criminal charges. The report says the lab may have violated federal and state laws mandating that evidence favorable to defendants be shared with their lawyers. It also bolsters defense attorneys' long-held argument that the lab is in the pocket of law enforcement.

Besides the executions, the report urged a closer look at the cases of four people on death row and one whose death sentence was commuted to life.

The cases also include the 1993 murder of James Jordan, father of the NBA star, who was sleeping in his car along a highway when he was killed. Two men were sentenced to life in prison. The review states an SBI analyst reported that an examination of the scene indicated the presence of blood, but didn't say that four subsequent tests were inconclusive.

Michael Jordan, now owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

The problems detailed in the report follow similar story lines: Lab results that contradicted preliminary tests indicating blood at a scene were routinely kept from defense lawyers. Those secondary results were in analysts' handwritten notes, but not in evidence presented at court.

The report blames the flaws on factors including poorly crafted policy and ineffective management. There was no written policy on how to report results until 1997, according to Swecker.

"Before that, how analysts reported results depended on the analyst's subjective judgment," he said.

The lab's operations have changed substantially since 2003, when it began using more modern blood testing.

Deaver is linked to the five cases the report characterizes as the most egregious violations, and it accuses him of overstating or falsely reporting blood test results, including one in the case against Desmond Keith Carter, who was executed in 2002. In two of the cases, including Carter's, Deaver's final report on blood analyses said his tests "revealed the presence of blood" when his notes indicated negative results from follow-up tests. His notes indicate that he got a negative result because he didn't have enough sample left for the confirmatory test.

The attorney general's office said Carter confessed to the crime, and the evidence in question wasn't introduced at trial, the report said.

In three other cases, the review said Deaver's reports stated further tests were "inconclusive" or "no result" while his lab notes reflected negative results.

Deaver still works for the SBI, although no longer in the crime lab. He didn't return a message left at his office, and nobody came to the door of his home Wednesday afternoon.

Swecker and co-author Mike Wolf's report leaves open the possibility that he didn't purposely misreport results.

New SBI Director Greg McLeod said Wednesday that Deaver is now on investigatory placement, which means he cannot work but is paid while an investigation continues.

Attorney David Rudolf, who has represented clients who have sued the SBI and tangled with Deaver in a famous murder case, said new trials should be given in all cases in which Deaver's testimony played a significant role.

"Justice is the cornerstone of our society, and it can't be done on the cheap," he said in an e-mail.

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[joesamas mama]

Off to see the......................hopefully not a wizard.  The sun is shining and it is hot and humid.  Home to more clean up.  Have a good evening everyone.

JSM I am glad you enjoyed the video. 

Have a good evening Mission. Thanks for the video. I loved the narration by the GREAT Ronald Reagan in those clips. I know that voice anywhere. God Rest his Soul and I pray some day we can find a President that is just like he was. 

[joesamas mama]

Did ya'll see this story?
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ginVyvyjHoUkMCDDWKgMWh9ujrVQD9HM560O3
Review finds flawed NC cases, including executions

By MARTHA WAGGONER (AP) – 59 minutes ago

RALEIGH, N.C. — Analysts at North Carolina's crime lab omitted, overstated or falsely reported blood evidence in dozens of cases, including three that ended in executions and another where two men were imprisoned for murdering Michael Jordan's father, according to a scathing review released Wednesday.

The government-ordered inquest by two former FBI officials found that agents of the State Bureau of Investigation repeatedly aided prosecutors in obtaining convictions over a 16-year period, mostly by misrepresenting blood evidence and keeping critical notes from defense attorneys.

The review of blood evidence in cases from 1987 to 2003 by two former assistant directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation calls for a thorough examination of 190 criminal cases, stating information that could have helped defendants was sometimes misrepresented or withheld.

"It impacted the decisions that were made — it could have," report author Chris Swecker said Wednesday. "Let me step back and make sure you understand: It could have resulted in situations where information that was material and favorable to the defendant was not disclosed."

The report does not conclude that innocent people were convicted, noting the evidence wasn't always used at trials and defendants may have admitted to crimes. But it states prosecutors and defense lawyers need to check whether tainted lab reports helped lead to confessions or pleas.

Attorney General Roy Cooper ordered the review in March after an SBI agent testified the crime lab once had a policy of excluding complete blood test results from reports offered to defense lawyers before trials. The existence of the policy was later confirmed by a former SBI director. Agent Duane Deaver's testimony led to the exoneration of a murder convict imprisoned nearly 17 years.

Cooper said Wednesday that he will send the cases cited in the report back to the counties where they were tried for review. "This report is troubling. It describes a practice that should have been unacceptable then and is unacceptable now," he said during a news conference.

The review found 230 cases in which eight SBI analysts filed reports that, at best, were incomplete. Of those, 190 resulted in criminal charges. The report says the lab may have violated federal and state laws mandating that evidence favorable to defendants be shared with their lawyers. It also bolsters defense attorneys' long-held argument that the lab is in the pocket of law enforcement.

Besides the executions, the report urged a closer look at the cases of four people on death row and one whose death sentence was commuted to life.

The cases also include the 1993 murder of James Jordan, father of the NBA star, who was sleeping in his car along a highway when he was killed. Two men were sentenced to life in prison. The review states an SBI analyst reported that an examination of the scene indicated the presence of blood, but didn't say that four subsequent tests were inconclusive.

Michael Jordan, now owner of the Charlotte Bobcats, couldn't immediately be reached for comment.

The problems detailed in the report follow similar story lines: Lab results that contradicted preliminary tests indicating blood at a scene were routinely kept from defense lawyers. Those secondary results were in analysts' handwritten notes, but not in evidence presented at court.

The report blames the flaws on factors including poorly crafted policy and ineffective management. There was no written policy on how to report results until 1997, according to Swecker.

"Before that, how analysts reported results depended on the analyst's subjective judgment," he said.

The lab's operations have changed substantially since 2003, when it began using more modern blood testing.

Deaver is linked to the five cases the report characterizes as the most egregious violations, and it accuses him of overstating or falsely reporting blood test results, including one in the case against Desmond Keith Carter, who was executed in 2002. In two of the cases, including Carter's, Deaver's final report on blood analyses said his tests "revealed the presence of blood" when his notes indicated negative results from follow-up tests. His notes indicate that he got a negative result because he didn't have enough sample left for the confirmatory test.

The attorney general's office said Carter confessed to the crime, and the evidence in question wasn't introduced at trial, the report said.

In three other cases, the review said Deaver's reports stated further tests were "inconclusive" or "no result" while his lab notes reflected negative results.

Deaver still works for the SBI, although no longer in the crime lab. He didn't return a message left at his office, and nobody came to the door of his home Wednesday afternoon.

Swecker and co-author Mike Wolf's report leaves open the possibility that he didn't purposely misreport results.

New SBI Director Greg McLeod said Wednesday that Deaver is now on investigatory placement, which means he cannot work but is paid while an investigation continues.

Attorney David Rudolf, who has represented clients who have sued the SBI and tangled with Deaver in a famous murder case, said new trials should be given in all cases in which Deaver's testimony played a significant role.

"Justice is the cornerstone of our society, and it can't be done on the cheap," he said in an e-mail.

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  No Trimm I hadn't seen that story. We have a whole lot of cases here that people were wrongly convicted. Not because of DNA, but reckless prosecution.