Sunday, January 30, 2022

Keith Carnes: Missouri; Confidential informant issues and much more; (Case cries out innocence. HL); Bulletin: State Supreme Court denies motion to release Keith Carnes from prison...Carnes is serving a life sentence for the 2003 murder of Larry White. In a newly released report, a Phelps County judge found that Carnes' constitutional rights were violated at trial. The Missouri special master found that a police report that could have helped Carnes' case "was not disclosed by KCPD."


BULLETIN: "Missouri Supreme Court denies motion to release Keith Carnes from prison," published by KMBC News 8 ABC,  on January 28, 2022.

GIST: "The Missouri Supreme Court on Friday declined a motion for Keith Carnes' immediate conditional release from prison.


The high court did decide to expedite the legal proceedings in his case.


Carnes is serving a life sentence for the 2003 murder of Larry White.


In a newly released report, a Phelps County judge found that Carnes' constitutional rights were violated at trial.


The Missouri special master found that a police report that could have helped Carnes' case "was not disclosed by KCPD.


The Missouri attorney general's office has until Feb. 4 to file any arguments to the special master's report."


The entire story can be read at:


https://www.kmbc.com/article/missouri-supreme-court-denies-motion-keith-carnes-for-release/38928981

PUBLISHER'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;



SEE BREAKDOWN OF  SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG,  AT THE LINK BELOW:  HL:



FINAL WORD:  (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases):  "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;

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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions.   They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;