Searching for Truth
Investigators and social workers in the Mineola Swingers Club cases have admitted that there was plenty of evidence that never made it into the first three trials that resulted in three life sentences. Will it make a difference?
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2011, 9:34 pm
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Friday, July 15th, 2011, 8:32 pm
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Wednesday, July 6th, 2011, 2:31 am
ray ban says:
Yet again the Smith County DA’s Office--and particularly the prosecutor ray ban uk
Monday, August 10th, 2009, 11:20 am
eileen says:
RE: MWTexas
I apologize for your lost comment. I promise we do not censor them. Also, check out our latest piece here: http://www.texasmonthly.com/2009-08-01/webextra14.php
Monday, August 10th, 2009, 9:03 am
MWTexas says:
That’s odd, Friday I tried to post a comment that ran counter to your "all prosecutors are evil meme" for this story and it doesn’t appear here. Too bad for Texas, another censoring of a legitimate view. Pretty typical for the age of Obama.
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009, 2:18 pm
John says:
Yet again the Smith County DA’s Office--and particularly the prosecutor (Joe Murphy) in the Mineola Sex Club cases--has crossed the line between being a zealous advocate for the state vs. becoming a convict-at-all-costs lunatic and lawbreaker. In the last week or so, attorneys for Dennis Pittman established that Murphy’s star witness, TX Ranger Phillip Kemp, appeared to have committed perjury in his prior testimony in the Sex Club cases, particularly the Patrick Kelly case last year, and in the Dennis Pittman case over the last month or so.
Without Kemp, Murphy doesn’t have a case. And it is prosecutor Murphy who repeatedly, time and time again, over the last year and a half, brought out Kemp’s untruthful testimony on the witness stand. Further, a review of the transcripts shows that Murphy himself lied on the record on multiple occasions over the last year or so (a fact which likely will not go unnoticed by the Attorney General investigators and special prosecutors). And Murphy and Kemp aren’t the only witnesses or advocates for the State who have told lies in court in the Sex Club cases. The corruption is deep, wide and massive: Buried exculpatory evidence. Hidden exculpatory evidence. Destroyed exculpatory evidence. Perjured testimony. Further, Kemp and Murphy and others have always known about the massive amount of exculpatory evidence that exists regarding all of the Sex Club defendants and yet made sure the defense attorneys and defendants in the first three Sex Club cases didn’t get this evidence, and are only now very reluctantly, like dribbling individual grains of sand one at a time, providing (what’s left) of the exculpatory evidence (that which hasn’t been destroyed already by the State) to Dennis Pittman’s attorney.
What has happened in Smith County in the Sex Club cases has been a disgrace, a mockery, and a corruption of the justice system. Think about it: a dirty TX Ranger, a crooked lying prosecutor, other lying State’s witnesses. Conclusion: it is not the Sex Club defendants who belong in prison in these cases--for they are innocent. Rather, it is the people who put them in prison--in what appears to be a massive conspiracy to obstruct justice and violate the constitutional rights of all of the Sex Club defendants--who themselves need to be locked up.
Without a key.
Friday, July 24th, 2009, 12:12 pm
’Doches Dragon says:
This is typical behavior for the East Texas criminal justice system. DAs with a political agenda that are concerned more with victories that they can display before easily panicked voters. They have little concern for seeking justice. I speak from expreience. I had the most horrible senior year imaginable, going from a Merit Scholar semifinalist to looking at 15 years in TDC because a DA didn’t have the b***s enough to tell the police they made a mistake. BUt through the grace of God and remebering what I had been taught by my family, I was able to fight long enough for a new DA to be elected who saw what was right and immediately dimissed the case. Thank you Mr. Hancock and to the voters in Nacogdoches who saw a need for change and made it. Until voters demand more accountability from our criminal justice system and law enforcement, East Texas will always be considered West Mississippi.
Monday, July 20th, 2009, 6:58 pm
joe says:
If this DA thought he was doing what was right for the safety of these children and community, why did he not release all of the information and tell the truth? The answer is obvious. He manipulated the law, ruined the lives of innocent people, put children through a dramatic and horric experience, and wasted lots of tax payor money to build up his own reputation and ego.
The reputation he will get is one that he deserves.
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009, 12:59 am
LongviewTexasSmith says:
Let the truth be known to all of this wrong doing by the Judges and Prosecutors. The public needs to see how their arrogance and manipulation of their power helped fool 12 jurors. Let everyone know that they stood behind our laws and deceived us. This was done willfully and planned out. They should be punished to the full extent of the law which they have no regard for. Texas Defense Attorneys need to unite and take care of this for everyone.
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