Bulletin: Rennie Gibbs: Mississippi; Major development; A judge has dismissed her "depraved heart" murder case. Her lawyer says the defence had filed several motions relating to "the science" and other facts in the case that had been found to be compelling. Controversial pathologist Steven Hayne played a major role in the conviction; Link to entire decision provided: The Dispatch.

STORY:"Breaking: Judge dismisses Rennie Gibbs' depraved heart murder case," by reporter Sarah Fowler, published by The Dispatch on April 3, 2014.

GIST: "The murder charge against Columbus resident Rennie Gibbs has been dismissed by Lowndes County Circuit Court Judge Jim Kitchens. Gibbs, 24, was charged with depraved heart murder for her alleged role in the 2006 stillborn death of her child. Prosecutors said Gibbs caused the child's death by using cocaine during her pregnancy. Gibbs was 16 at the time of the child's stillbirth. She was arrested and charged with depraved heart murder, the first woman charged with the crime in the State of Mississippi. Depraved heart murder is defined as an act that demonstrates a "calous disregard for human life."   Kitchens dismissed the charge against Gibbs Wednesday. Citing Mississippi Supreme Court case Buckhalter v. State, he said the law was unclear on the appropriate charge for Gibbs.  "Gibbs was indicted prior to Buckhalter and the law was unclear in Mississippi as to the appropriate charge, if any, to be levied when a pregnant woman allegedly consumed illegal drugs and allegedly caused the death of her unborn child," Kitchens ruling stated.  He added, "Accordingly, pursuant to the Mississippi Supreme Court's ruling this case for depraved heart murder is dismissed without prejudice."  Assistant District Attorney Mark Jackson said the state would re-present the case to the grand jury at the end of July. ........Gibb's attorney Carrie Jourdan said she was elated with Kitchens' decision but was disappointed the DA's office would attempt to try the case again.  "Well first, I believe that Judge Kitchens has summed up the law correctly and accurately and obviously we believe he has done the right thing according to the law," she said. We are incredibly relieved for our client who has been through a great deal. I'm of course disappointed that the state is considering a manslaughter case against her. With that possibility looming, I can't say a great deal except we had filed separate motions related to the science and other facts in this case that we found equally compelling.""

The entire story can be found at:

http://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=32344

See ProPublica story: Excellent background and analysis; "Rennie Gibbs’s daughter, Samiya, was a month premature when she simultaneously entered the world and left it, never taking a breath. To experts who later examined the medical record, the stillborn infant’s most likely cause of death was also the most obvious: the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck. But within days of Samiya’s delivery in November 2006, Steven Hayne, Mississippi’s de facto medical examiner at the time, came to a different conclusion. Autopsy tests had turned up traces of a cocaine byproduct in Samiya’s blood, and Hayne declared her death a homicide, caused by “cocaine toxicity.” In early 2007, a Lowndes County grand jury indicted Gibbs, a 16-year-old black teen, for “depraved heart murder” — defined under Mississippi law as an act “eminently dangerous to others…regardless of human life.” By smoking crack during her pregnancy, the indictment said, Gibbs had “unlawfully, willfully, and feloniously” caused the death of her baby. The maximum sentence: life in prison..........The quality of the science is very much an issue in the Gibbs case.In a motion to throw out Hayne’s autopsy report, defense lawyers have claimed that that the medical examiner misinterpreted toxicology results and failed to explore alternative causes of death. Those claims are not the first time Hayne’s work has come under attack. Indeed, Hayne — who effectively served as Mississippi’s statewide medical examiner from the late 1980s to 2008, eventually performing 80 to 90 percent of the autopsies in the state annually — has been a hugely influential and controversial figure in the criminal justice system there for years. In litigation (much of it by the Mississippi Innocence Project) and news reports (many of them by Radley Balko, now of the Washington Post), defense lawyers and other medical examiners have accused Hayne of being sloppy, exaggerating his credentials, and leaping to conclusions that sometimes had no basis in science. At least four murder convictions based on Hayne’s evidence — one involving an innocent man sentenced to death for the killing of a three-year-old girl — have been overturned since 2007. Despite having failed to complete his certification test by the American Board of Pathology, Hayne not only practiced for two decades in Mississippi and nearby states, but by his own estimate he performed as many as 1,800 autopsies a year (the National Association of Medical Examiners recommends that a single doctor conduct no more than 250).  Mississippi stopped hiring Hayne in 2008, but he continues to testify in cases that he handled before then. In their court filing, Gibbs’s lawyers cited a capital murder conviction of a 14-year-old boy that the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned because of what it called "scientifically unfounded" testimony by Hayne. That case involved both the prosecutor and the judge handling the Gibbs prosecution."

 http://www.propublica.org/article/stillborn-child-charge-of-murder-and-disputed-case-law-on-fetal-harm

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Annie Dookhan: Finally, someone in the media gets it right: "Accreditation can’t prevent every problem. If drug lab employees see themselves as crime fighters as opposed to objective practitioners of science, these problems will continue." Editorial; WCVB; (Boston);

EDITORIAL: "Drug testing in state labs," published by WCVB on March 19, 2014.  (WCVB-TV is an  ABC-affiliated television station located in Boston);

GIST:  "Criminal drug testing is now performed at the State Police Crime Lab in Sudbury.   Lt. Col. Frank Matthews assured all, "What happened with Annie Dookhan will not happen again." Forgive us if we’re still somewhat skeptical.   Dookhan’s close relationship to the prosecution is where the problem began.  Cases in North Carolina, New York, West Virginia and Oklahoma show conflicts of interest occur in drug testing facilities and crime labs across the country.  Accreditation can’t prevent every problem. If drug lab employees see themselves as crime fighters as opposed to objective practitioners of science, these problems will continue.  Massachusetts has a chance to get this right.  We need robust and consistent oversight of an independent drug lab."

The entire editorial can be found at:WCVB;

•  http://www.wcvb.com/tv/editorials/march-7-2014-drug-testing-in-state-labs/25053148#!ABU6I
  
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Bulletin: "Hillsborough Inquests: U.K. Five things learned April 2, 2014; Liverpool Echo - including reportage that the 3.15 cut off will not apply, and that large numbers of police statements were amended;

POST: "Hillsborough Inquests - five things we learned today," by Eleanor Barlow, published by the Liverpool echo on April 2, 2014.

GIST: "The Hillsborough Inquests continued today in Warrington - here is our round-up of the things we learned.

1) THE 3.15PM CUT OFF WILL NOT APPLY;

2) LARGE NUMBERS OF POLICE STATEMENTS WERE AMENDED

3) OTHER INQUIRIES WILL NOT FORM EVIDENCE

4) KEY TOPICS WERE SET OUT

5) INVESTIGATIONS WILL CONTINUE AS THE INQUESTS ARE UNDERWAY;

The entire story can be found at:

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/hillsborough-inquests---five-things-6911255

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Bulletin: Iwao Hakamada; Japan; Prosecutors oppose retrial that would formally clear him after four decades on death row - and appeal the court decision which freed him on basis prosecutors likely used fabricated evidence to convict him of murder in 1968. Asahi Shimbun.

 STORY: "Lawyers: Prosecutors appeal exacerbates Hakamada's suffering," published by the Asahi Shimbun on April 1, 2014.

GIST: "Defense lawyers lambasted prosecutors for opposing a retrial for a multiple-murder case from the 1960s, saying the move will only prolong the suffering of an innocent man who spent decades on death row. Iwao Hakamada, 78, was released March 27 after the Shizuoka District Court said prosecutors likely used fabricated evidence to convict the former professional boxer of murder in 1968. The court ordered a retrial and said Hakamada should be found not guilty However, the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutors Office argued that the court’s decision was itself based on shaky evidence. The office filed an appeal against the retrial order and sought a reinstatement of Hakamada’s death sentence.  Hakamada’s defenders said prosecutors simply want to postpone a chance for the former convict to clear his name.........During the trial that started in the 1960s, prosecutors argued that blood on five items of clothing found a year after the killings was Hakamada’s, and that he had worn those clothes when he killed the family. But the March 27 ruling said DNA tests indicated the blood was neither Hakamada’s nor members of the slain family. “It is suspected that investigative agencies fabricated key evidence,” the ruling said.  Shizuoka prosecutors contend in the appeal that the amount of analyzed DNA was too small to obtain reliable test results. They also insist the DNA had been fragmented and degraded over the years.  The appeal denounced the court ruling as “a mistaken one issued based on unreasonable, unfair grounds.” It also says the assumption that police faked evidence lacked supportive evidence......... Whatever decision the Tokyo High Court makes, either prosecutors or Hakamada’s lawyers are expected to file a special appeal to the Supreme Court, which would add more time before a possible retrial starts. A third-party lawyer said prosecutors should not have filed the complaint against the court’s retrial order, considering Hakamada’s long years in prison. “It has been 48 years since he was arrested,” said Masaru Wakasa, a former deputy head of the special investigation team at the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office. “Judicial justice lies in coming to a conclusion as early as possible. “Prosecutors should make their point in the proposed retrial if they have something to argue instead of filing an immediate appeal.”

The entire story can be found at at:

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/behind_news/social_affairs/AJ201404010061

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Reid technique: Psychologist Karen Franklin describes storm clouds gathering over the Reid interrogation method. (Must Read. HL);

POST: "Storm clouds over Reid interrogation method," published by Karen Franklin on her Blog "In the News" on March 25, 2014.

GIST: "The Reid technique, the brainchild of John E. Reid and Associates, is fundamental to modern interrogation techniques. But it’s getting greater scrutiny in recent years thanks to growing awareness of the problem of false confessions. Of the convicted people who have been conclusively cleared by DNA evidence, about one out of four had confessed to the crime – often due to clever ruses designed and promoted by the Reid school.........The latest critical attention is a lengthy essay in the influential New Yorker magazine. Author Douglas Starr describes his adventure undergoing the Reid training, and presents critical research casting doubts on both the fairness and the accuracy of the method. The essay, which I highly recommend for anyone interested in the topic, explores the research of leading academics including Saul Kassin, Richard Leo, Aldert Vrij and Melissa Russano. These scholars agree that the Reid method is great at eliciting self-incriminating statements, but not so good at distinguishing true confessions from false ones. ........Just as psychologically coercive techniques replaced the physical coercion of the olden days’ “third degree,” even within the U.S. law enforcement community some think that the Reid technique has outlived its time.  In Britain, Canada and some other countries, police have switched to less coercive interviewing procedures, such as PEACE, which stands for Preparation and Planning, Engage and Explain, Account, Closure, Evaluate. The method is radically different, in that rather than trying to entrap a suspect using falsehoods and psychological ploys, the detective approaches the interview almost like a journalist, asking open-ended questions to get the whole story, and then following up by going back over the story looking for inconsistencies. Although some U.S. law enforcement leaders are working to develop similar approaches, Kassin told Starr he is skeptical of wholesale change: “The culture of confrontation, he feels, is too embedded in our society.”"

The entire post can be found at:

http://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.com/2014/03/storm-clouds-gathering-over-reid.html 

See the previous post in which Joseph P. Buckley, President of Reid and Associates responds to  criticisms of the Reid technique.  "It is often stated that the Reid Technique "shows no interest in learning the truth, but the goal is to seek a confession." We clearly state the exact opposite in our book Criminal Interrogation and Confessions (5th edition 2013) on page 5: "The purpose of an interrogation is to learn the truth. A common misperception exists in believing that the purpose of an interrogation  is to elicit a confession.... If the suspect can be eliminated [from suspicion] based on his or her behavior or explanations offered during the interrogation, the interrogation must be considered successful because the truth was learned."  "

 http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2014/02/the-reid-technique-joseph-buckley.html

POST: Hillsborough inquest: Liverpool Echo: Daily updates; (Wednesday April 2, 2014);

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/live-hillsborough-disaster-inquests---6905752

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Hillsborough Inquest: (2); Moving Mirror story gets to the heart of what the inquest is all about: Getting the right words on a death certificate. An insightful, moving story by Brian Reade. The Mirror. (Must Read. HL);

STORY: "Hillsborough inquest brings back the horror for 150 family members desperate for justice," by reporter Brian Reade, published by the Mirror on March 31, 2014.

GIST: "After what seemed like an excruciating eternity the families finally walked back into a coroner’s court with hope in their hearts. It had been 23 years and three days since they left Sheffield Town Hall, engulfed in grief and anger at the accidental death verdicts on their loved ones. With those verdicts quashed, they got another chance to hope that words they agree with are finally written on the death certificates of the 96 victims of Hillsborough ......... Many couldn’t help thinking back to the harrowing conclusion of the initial inquests in Sheffield Town Hall’s Victorian oak-lined council chamber on March 28th 1991.When, after sitting through more than 600 hours of evidence, the jury returned verdicts of accidental death on the then 95 victims (Tony Bland who was in a persistent vegetative state at the time became the 96th victim in 1993 when his life-support system was switched off). It was a heartbreaking scene everyone present will take to their graves. After Coroner Dr Stefan Popper read every name the jury foreman responded with the words “accidental death.” But when the Hillsborough Independent Panel concluded in December 2012 that as many as 41 of the victims might still have been alive after 3.15pm and may have survived if they had received adequate emergency care, those verdicts had to be quashed and new ones ordered.........What all those families are desperately seeking is a form of closure for something that has consumed their lives for far too long. The notion that when you bring a child onto this earth the state demands that the right words are written on their birth certificates. When they leave it, the least they deserve is the right words on their death certificates. Sometime next year they may finally see them. "

The entire story can be found at:

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/hillsborough-inquest-brings-back-horror-3320002

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Bulletin: Clyde Ray Spencer; Washington State; National Trial Lawyers publication reports on the exonerated father's $9 million award after serving 20 years in prison on false sex charges. ( A horror story of a criminal justice system gone evil. If only this had been an April Fools Day prank! Opens up so many questions: Like what happened to the police and prosecutors responsible for the debacle? (Promotions?) And who is looking at the other cases they handled? Must Read. HL.

STORY: "Exonerated father awarded $9 million after 20 years in prison on false sex abuse charges," by reporter Larry Bodine, published by the National Trial Lawyers on March 26, 2014. (Thanks to the Wrongful Convictions Blog for bringing this story to our attention. HL);

GIST: "A father who spent 20 years in prison based on sex abuse evidence fabricated by two former Clark County, WA, sheriff’s detectives was awarded $9 million by a federal court jury that ruled that the authorities violated his constitutional right to due process. The jury verdict in the civil rights case was the latest in a series of exonerations for former Vancouver, WA, policeman Clyde Ray Spencer. He had been sentenced in 1985 to two life terms plus 14 years on false charges that he sexually abused his daughter Katie Spencer Tetz, then age 5, son Matt Spencer, then age 9, and stepson Matt Hansen, then age 5. The Governor commuted Spencer’s sentence in 2004, and his conviction was subsequently thrown out. “This case is so incredibly simple,” attorney Kathleen Zellner told the jury during opening statements. “It has to do with the deliberate fabrication of evidence” by former sheriff’s detective Sharon Krause and her boss, former detective sergeant Michael Davidson. Krauss and Davidson were both held liable. “The motivation was sex an(d)  ambition.” Zellner, of Downers Grove, IL, is a member of the National Trial Lawyers........After 13 days of testimony in court in Tacoma, WA, from 25 witnesses — several key factors led to the on February 3 jury verdict:.......,Spencer’s wife, who called policed about the abuse claims, was secretly having an affair with Sgt. Davidson, who led the investigation of Spencer. This was not revealed until after Spencer was in prison. ..Spencer’s natural children Matt Spencer and Katie Tetz testified that they were never abused. ..The stepson maintained that we was abused. However, he has a long criminal record for crimes including burglary and forgery. The authorities reduced his sentence in exchange for his testimony against Spencer. ..The detectives concealed medical exams showing that Spencer’s son and daughter were not abused. ..They also fabricated polygraph test results to make it look as if Spencer was lying when questioned about the abuse claims. ..Deputy prosecutor James Peters made a video showing that he coaxed Spencer’s daughter to say her father abused her. The video, which undermines the prosecution’s case, was not found until 2009 in Det. Krause’s garage.. Det. Krause held unorthodox meetings with the Spencer children, interviewing them in unrecorded sessions, buying them gifts and candy. She told the children their father was “sick” and that they they could heal him by accusing him of sexual crimes...Attorney Zellner charged that Det. Krause was motivated by advancing her career, and that after she started working in the field the conviction rate in child abuse cases rose by 800%. She had been a hotel clerk and met police officers who came to the hotel bar. She joined the Clark County Sheriff’s Department and became a detective investigating child sex abuse, even though she had no training in the subject area."

The entire story can be found at:

http://www.thenationaltriallawyers.org/2014/03/exonerated-father-9-million-false-sex-abuse/

National Registry of Exonerations entry: "After about a decade in prison, Spencer hired Seattle attorney Peter Camiel, who, along with a private investigator, discovered that prosecutors had withheld medical exams showing that there was no physical evidence of abuse, even though the child’s mother contended they had been repeatedly raped. Also withheld was evidence that at the time, the children’s mother was having an affair with the detective supervising the investigation. The discovery prompted Washington Governor Gary Locke to commute Spencer’s sentence in 2004, although Spencer was placed on supervision for three years. Not long after, Spencer’s two natural children came forward to say they were never molested or raped by their father. Both of the children testified at a hearing in 2009 that the abuse never occurred. The boy testified that after being repeatedly and extensively questioned, he finally agreed to say he was abused so that the police would leave him alone. The girl testified that she doesn’t recall what she told police, but she did remember getting ice cream. The step-son refused to recant and contended he had been molested.  In October, 2009, based on the Brady violations and recantations, a court of appeals vacated the plea, saying, “The recantations that remained consistent through direct and cross-examination coupled with the significant irregularities in how the case was prosecuted…require that we grant Spencer’s petition and remand for withdrawal of his plea.” On September 29, 2010, Spencer withdrew his plea and at the same time, Clark County prosecutors dismissed the charges."

https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetail.aspx?caseid=3657

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