"Green was expected to be granted a personal recognizance bond by visiting state District Judge Mike Wilkinson Thursday morning. He was not brought into the courtroom, but loud shouting could be heard from behind the door to the court's holdover cell.
Wicoff said the shouting was Green.
"This has been a gross perversion of justice and he's a smart guy and he knows it," Wicoff said. "He's angry."
The release was the next step in proceedings to declare Green actually innocent of a 1983 sexual assault.
Green's family members who spoke as they walked from the courtroom said Green should have been immediately released regardless of his behavior.
"He's been in jail too long already," said a woman who identified herself as a relative and did not give her name as reporters swarmed her as she walked to the elevators in the Harris County Criminal Courthouse."
REPORTER BRIAN ROGERS: HOUSTON CHRONICLE;
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BACKGROUND; Green was sentenced to 75 years in prison for the 1983 rape of a Houston woman based on faulty eyewitness identification. According to court records, a woman talking on a pay phone with her husband was abducted at gunpoint by two men at a Greenspoint-area gas station after midnight on April 18, 1983. They forced her in to a car with two other men. The men drove the victim to a secluded area where three of the men sexually assaulted her. The fourth man did not participate. He was to be released from prison in July, 2010, after DNA tests were finally conducted on exhibits in the District Court office all these years.
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"A Houston man expected to be freed on Thursday after being imprisoned 27 years for a rape he did not commit will have to wait one more day after reacting "emotionally" to the reality of his release this morning," the story by reporter Brian Rogers published in the Houston Chronicle begins, under the heading, "Innocent prisoner's outburst delays release."
"Bob Wicoff, an attorney for Michael Anthony Green, said his client was angry and would need another day to compose himself before having bail set while the Texas Court of Criminal Appeal rules on his actual innocence," the story continues.
""He was upset," Wicoff said. "Hopefully he'll be fine tomorrow."
Green was expected to be granted a personal recognizance bond by visiting state District Judge Mike Wilkinson Thursday morning. He was not brought into the courtroom, but loud shouting could be heard from behind the door to the court's holdover cell.
Wicoff said the shouting was Green.
"This has been a gross perversion of justice and he's a smart guy and he knows it," Wicoff said. "He's angry."
The release was the next step in proceedings to declare Green actually innocent of a 1983 sexual assault.
Green's family members who spoke as they walked from the courtroom said Green should have been immediately released regardless of his behavior.
"He's been in jail too long already," said a woman who identified herself as a relative and did not give her name as reporters swarmed her as she walked to the elevators in the Harris County Criminal Courthouse."
The story can be found at:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/7130279.html
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be accessed at:
http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith
For a breakdown of some of the cases, issues and controversies this Blog is currently following, please turn to:
http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2010/07/new-feature-cases-issues-and.html
Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog; hlevy15@gmail.com;
