WORDS TO HEED: FROM OUR POST ON KEVIN COOPER'S APPLICATION FOR POST-CONVICTION DNA TESTING (CALIFORNIA):
"Blogger/extraordinaire Jeff Gamso's blunt, unequivocal, unforgettable message to the powers that be in California: "JUST TEST THE FUCKING DNA." (Oh yes, Gamso raises, as he does in many of his posts, an important philosophical question: This post is headed: "What is truth, said jesting Pilate.")..."So what's the harm? What, exactly, are they scared of? Don't we want the truth?"
https://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2018/06/kevin-cooper-2-california-application.html
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QUOTE OF THE DAY: "In her interview with Dr. Phil, she gives the example of Rodney Reed, a death row inmate who was granted a stay of execution this weekend after an onslaught of support from celebrities and politicians, as a proof of the kind of people who need her help. ‘For me, I spent four years in prison and that was horrible. I‘ll never get those years back. Knox was convicted and then acquitted of murdering Meredith Kercher in 2007 ‘But there are people in prison right now who have been inside longer than I have been alive. ‘Rodney has spent 22 years in prison. Think about this. ‘This is a lifetime that people are losing because someone decides they didn‘t want to bother to test the evidence?‘ she said."
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HEADING: "Amanda Knox tells Dr. Phil she is devoted to helping wrongfully convicted inmates," published by The Wellson Journal on November 30k, 2019.
SUB-HEADING: "Amanda Knox tells Dr. Phil she is devoted to helping wrongfully convicted inmates as she throws her support behind Rodney Reed and says she sympathizes with him for spending 22 years behind bars when she only did four in an Italian prison.
GIST: "Amanda Knox has opened up to about how she
feels compelled to help wrongfully convicted people after spending four
years in Italian prison for a murder she was later acquitted of. The 32-year-old will appear on Dr. Phil‘s
show on Tuesday to relive being blamed for the murder of Meredith
Kercher, her British foreign exchange roommate who was brutally murdered
while the pair were studying abroad in Perugia in 2007. Knox was infamously convicted of murdering her along with her Italian boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito but she was freed in 2011. She has since appeared in documentaries
and has written an autobiography. Now, she says she wants to help free
wrongfully convicted people like her. In her interview with Dr. Phil, she gives
the example of Rodney Reed, a death row inmate who was granted a stay of
execution this weekend after an onslaught of support from celebrities
and politicians, as a proof of the kind of people who need her help. ‘For me, I spent four years in prison and that was horrible. I‘ll never get those years back. Knox was convicted and then acquitted of murdering Meredith Kercher in 2007 ‘But there are people in prison right now who have been inside longer than I have been alive. ‘Rodney has spent 22 years in prison. Think about this. ‘This is a lifetime that people are losing because someone decides they didn‘t want to bother to test the evidence?‘ she said. Knox, who recently got married, also recalled being told she had been found guilty f murder. ‘I was Foxy Knoxy the monster. ‘When they pronounced guilty, the world crumbled beneath me,‘ she said. She added that she was ‘hit‘ and ‘beat up‘ in prison but that she never let it break her spirit. ‘They took my freedom. They couldn‘t take who I was,‘ she said. Rodney Reed was convicted of murder in 1998. He was accused of killing Stacey Stites, a
white woman in Bastrop, Texas. She had been found strangled by the side
of the road and there was proof she had been raped. Reed was convicted because police found
his DNA on her body. His explanation for it is that they were having an
affair and had been intimate the day before she died. He was nonetheless convicted and has spent decades fighting for his freedom. Earlier this year, Dr. Phil shed light on
the case and the new evidence Reed‘s attorneys say they have. It
includes witness testimony that it was Stites‘ fiance, Jimmy Fennell,
who killed her in a fit of rage after learning she was having an
affair. The case caught the attention of Kim
Kardashian West and politicians on both sides of the aisle who made
pleas to Texas Governor Greg Abbott to reconsider Reed‘s death
sentence. Now, he has been given an indefinite stay of execution and his attorneys are to return to court. "
The entire story can be read at:
https://wellstonjournal.com/amanda-knox-tells-dr-phil-she-is-devoted-to-helping-wrongfully-convicted-inmates.htmlPUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. 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 found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;
