Bulletin: Lonnie Strawhacker: Counsel seeks retrial on basis of "junk science" - testimony by discredited FBI hair matching expert Michael Malone. (Lonnie Strawhacker has already served 25 years of his lfe sentence for rape);

STORY: "Lawyer: Remand '89 rape case, as expert provided 'junk science,' by reporter Spencer Willems, published on January 5, 2015, by ArkansasOnline.

GIST: "An attorney representing a convicted rapist serving a life sentence due in part to testimony from a discredited FBI expert asked the Arkansas Supreme Court on Monday to return the case to a trial court for a potential retrial. Jeff Rosenzweig, who was appointed by the Arkansas Supreme Court in June to represent Lonnie Strawhacker, argued in a brief filed Monday that the high court should allow Strawhacker another chance to prove his innocence a quarter-century after his arrest in Northwest Arkansas. On Monday, Rosenzweig said there are some procedural hurdles facing Strawhacker, who lost his appeal before the Arkansas Supreme Court in 2002, but that there should be a way for his client to seek relief. "This shouldn't be left to clemency," Rosenzweig said. "The system should have a device to clean up errors like this." The error in Strawhacker's case, as well as several hundred other cases nationwide, came from a previously used method of forensic hair analysis. In 1989, Strawhacker, who is now 60, was accused of beating a woman in Fayetteville until her face was so swollen that she couldn't see. He also was accused of sexually assaulting her. The attack happened on a dark night, and between that and her swollen face, the victim was unable to visually identify her attacker. Instead, she identified Strawhacker by voice as her attacker. In addition to her testimony, Michael Malone, then a microscopic hair analyst with the FBI, testified that a pubic hair found at the crime scene matched other hair belonging to Strawhacker. But testimony from Malone and others has been discredited, and the discipline of comparing microscopic characteristics of hair without analyzing DNA has been relegated to "junk science," Rosenzweig argued in his brief........."It is incumbent on the judicial system to provide a remedy when testimony -- particularly from a person in authority -- is exposed as fallacious or false," Rosenzweig wrote. "If current procedures do not provide a remedy, the procedures should be expanded." If the high court returns the case to the lower court, Strawhacker would be able to appear before a trial judge to determine if the testimony from Malone was exculpatory. If the judge thought so, Rosenzweig said, Strawhacker could get a retrial."

The entire story can be found at:

 https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2016/jan/05/lawyer-remand-89-rape-case-as-expert-pr/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNTAwMzkxNzE5MDcxOTQwNTYzNzIaN2E4NTFlZjc3ZjhiMTVmZTpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG9mZnMkxWituJdTIYTggi12SL6gQ

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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:
 
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Bulletin: Joseph Buffey: West Virginia; State AG's office seeks another stay from W.Va. Supreme Court. "Buffey’s November victory at the state Supreme Court turned on that issue, as the justices decided the state had DNA results that would have been favorable to Buffey’s defense prior to the acceptance of his guilty pleas, yet that information wasn’t shared with the defendant or his lawyer at that time." The Exponent Telegram.

 

"The state Supreme Court already had agreed to postpone by 30 days making final its decision allowing a state prison inmate from Clarksburg to withdraw his guilty pleas in a 2001 rape/robbery. Will the justices give the office of West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey 14 more days? That’s what Solicitor General Elbert Lin and assistant attorney generals Gilbert Dickey and Katlyn Miller requested in a filing with the state’s highest court late Tuesday. Miller, Dickey and Lin want more time to review the voluminous file in the case of Joseph A. Buffey, 33, of Clarksburg. They’re trying to decide whether to appeal the West Virginia Supreme Court’s decision to the U.S. Supreme Court. The justices previously granted the 30-day stay that expires on Friday. The 14-day extension sought in Tuesday’s motion has been agreed upon by Buffey’s lawyers, according to the motion.........If an appeal is filed with the U.S. Supreme Court, Lin, Dickey and Miller will have to persuade the nation’s highest court that there’s a constitutional issue that needs to be resolved nationally. In Buffey’s case, that might be the issue of whether potentially exculpatory evidence must be shared with defendants at the plea-bargaining stage of prosecutions. Buffey’s November victory at the state Supreme Court turned on that issue, as the justices decided the state had DNA results that would have been favorable to Buffey’s defense prior to the acceptance of his guilty pleas, yet that information wasn’t shared with the defendant or his lawyer at that time. The lawyers for Buffey previously acknowledged the issue might have enough merit for the case to be accepted to the U.S. Supreme Court’s docket, although that’s no sure thing. But Buffey’s attorneys are confident that if that happens, the justices in Washington will uphold the unanimous ruling by West Virginia’s Supreme Court. Buffey is serving a 70-year term for two counts of first-degree sexual assault and one count of first-degree robbery of an 83-year-old woman. As it stands, his first chance to see the parole board would be Dec. 8, 2041. Buffey went to prison after pleading guilty in 2002 to the crimes that occurred Nov. 30, 2001. Allan Karlin of Morgantown and Barry Scheck and Nina Morrison of the Innocence Project, as well as Sarah Montoro, formerly with Karlin’s Morgantown law firm, have been the main lawyers seeking to overturn Buffey’s convictions. Additional DNA work by those lawyers eventually pointed the finger at Adam Derek Bowers, 30, of Clarksburg, as the assailant. Bowers was convicted at trial this year and has been sentenced to 70 years in prison, the same term that Buffey received from Harrison County Chief Circuit Judge Thomas A. Bedell back in May 2002."
http://www.theet.com/news/local/state-ag-s-office-seeks-another-stay-from-w-va/article_29cbb5a7-542d-5284-a219-8ee653a554fb.html

Bulletin: Douglas Prade; Ohio; His daughters stand by their father as he fights for new trial in 1997 murder of his ex-wife, Dr. Margo Prade;......... "To us," (jury foreman) Kelly said of the panel’s verdict, “I don’t think DNA was ever a factor.” The cumulative effect of the state’s circumstantial evidence, he stressed, carried the day, “and we went through everything when we deliberated.” He also pointed out that Prade had loose-fitting dentures for his upper teeth. “The fact that his lower teeth matched the bite mark fairly well – it sure looked like his teeth – played in as a factor,” Kelly said. In modern criminal trials, however, identifying a perpetrator by a bite-mark impression alone has been discredited by court rulings in many cases of wrongful arrest and conviction, his lawyers maintain." Beacon Journal.

STORY: "Douglas Prade's  daughters stand by their father as he fights for new trial in 1997 murder of his ex-wife, Dr. Margo Prade," by reporter Ed Meyer, published by the Beacon Journal on January 2,  2016.

GIST: "Kenya and Sahara Prade remain strongly in their father’s corner and insist he was never capable of killing their mother. “That’s not in his character,” Kenya Prade said. During a Dec. 28 phone interview with the Beacon Journal, the sisters said that they have never wavered from their belief since the day Dr. Margo Prade was shot to death inside her van soon after arriving at the parking lot of her Wooster Avenue medical office on the morning before Thanksgiving 18 years ago. Investigators said it was clear that her killer was familiar with her route and knew she would be there. Her ex-husband, former Akron Police Capt. Douglas Prade, now 69, remains in a state penitentiary awaiting a Summit County court ruling that could result in a new trial. The pending decision rests with Judge Christine Croce’s findings from a second round of hearings conducted in early November to review the latest DNA evidence in the case. A decision could be announced sometime early this year. Testimony at those hearings by forensic scientists excluded Prade’s genetic markers from the most scrutinized evidence in the case — a bite mark impression left under two layers of a lab coat worn by Dr. Prade on the morning of the slaying. ........The former police captain was found guilty of aggravated murder and other crimes by a Summit County jury in 1998. In January 2013, he was freed from prison after Summit County Common Pleas Judge Judy Hunter ruled new DNA evidence proved his innocence. An appeal by prosecutors ultimately sent him back to prison in October 2014. Hunter, now retired, heard four days of forensic testimony in November 2012 on what is, to date, the most advanced testing of the bite-mark evidence. After a review of the lengthy case record, she concluded that the exclusion of Douglas Prade’s DNA from small swatches of cloth from the lab coat where Dr. Prade was bitten was “clear and convincing” evidence of his innocence. Prade’s DNA also wasn’t found on any other sections of the lab coat. No jury today would convict Prade of the slaying, Hunter asserted in her decision, and she ordered state prison officials to release him. After prosecutors challenged the ruling, the 9th District Court of Appeals in Akron reversed Hunter and sent Prade back to prison in what Croce has called a legal pingpong match. The case has reached this point, perhaps more contentious than ever, because Hunter also issued a conditional order that Prade should get a new trial if her decision was overturned on appeal. Sahara Prade said that she believes the case has become “a witch hunt” by authorities. Prosecutors should have concentrated their efforts “on what they need to concentrate on – which is the main evidence that they presented in the first trial, saying that the person who killed my mother put that bite mark on her arm,” Sahara Prade said. “They need to pursue that evidence and let my dad go so he can be back with his family.” ......... Beacon Journal stories from the jury’s decision in the 1998 trial reported that prosecutors based their case “almost solely on circumstantial evidence that was so compelling, jurors needed only four hours to return a guilty verdict.” David Kelly, 56, a marketing director for a restaurant equipment firm in Columbus, was the Prade jury foreman.....During a recent interview, he said he didn’t know whether the advanced DNA test results would have changed the trial’s outcome. “If the trial was today,” he said, “everyone would obviously be of a different mind. Maybe it would, maybe it wouldn’t. But from what we had in 1998, we felt 99.9 percent sure he was guilty.” During Prade’s trial, DNA test results that were much less scientifically accurate than today’s testing technology didn’t link him to the doctor’s heavily blood-stained lab coat. “To us,” Kelly said of the panel’s verdict, “I don’t think DNA was ever a factor.” The cumulative effect of the state’s circumstantial evidence, he stressed, carried the day, “and we went through everything when we deliberated.” He also pointed out that Prade had loose-fitting dentures for his upper teeth. “The fact that his lower teeth matched the bite mark fairly well – it sure looked like his teeth – played in as a factor,” Kelly said. In modern criminal trials, however, identifying a perpetrator by a bite-mark impression alone has been discredited by court rulings in many cases of wrongful arrest and conviction, his lawyers maintain."

The entire story can be found at:

 http://www.ohio.com/news/local/douglas-prade-s-daughters-stand-by-their-father-as-he-fights-for-new-trial-in-1997-murder-of-his-ex-wife-dr-margo-prade-1.651786

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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:
 
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Harold Levy: Publisher;  The Charles Smith Blog.

Bulletin: Jamel Billups and Jacqueline Rosario; Pennsylvania; Law suit brought to clear their name: "Billups’ daughter suffered a childhood stroke and congenital rickets on Oct. 19, 2009, according to the couple’s court documents. Penn State Hershey Medical Center’s Child Safety Team incorrectly diagnosed the child as being a victim of child abuse. The child’s original injuries were described as severe head trauma (occipital and cerebral fractures and subdural and subarachnoid hematoma), detached retinas and rib fractures. She had no external signs of trauma and no skull fractures, but she had other signs consistent with suffering a stroke, according to court documents. Dr. Kathryn Crowell, then co-director of the Child Safety Team at Hershey Medical Center, testified at a December 2009 dependency hearing that the child suffered abuse, according to court documents. At Billups’ criminal trial a year later she said that when “I realized that I had been inaccurate in describing the rib fractures I tried to rectify the situation. I met with the hospital attorney, and he submitted a letter to the lawyers and the court that corrected that statement”. The attorney said later that the letter was written, but was never sent because of an oversight." (Must Read. HL);

"A man acquitted 5 years ago of shaking a baby is in federal court seeking damages of more than $75,000 from Franklin County and employees of the state’s former Department of Public Welfare. Jamel Billups and Jacqueline Rosario, formerly of Chambersburg and now of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., are trying to clear their names.........A Franklin County Court jury in December 2010 found Billups, then 32, innocent of abusing his 3-month-old daughter. The jury heard six days of medical testimony before clearing Billups of aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child. According to federal court documents, county Children and Youth Services followed up after Billups’ acquittal. They encouraged a state official to reconsider her decision to erase the report from ChildLine. The county also threatened to send police to his home to remove his children if Billups did not agree to a safety plan where he could not be alone with his children and where his home would be subject to unannounced visits from county employees.........Billups’ daughter suffered a childhood stroke and congenital rickets on Oct. 19, 2009, according to the couple’s court documents. Penn State Hershey Medical Center’s Child Safety Team incorrectly diagnosed the child as being a victim of child abuse. The child’s original injuries were described as severe head trauma (occipital and cerebral fractures and subdural and subarachnoid hematoma), detached retinas and rib fractures. She had no external signs of trauma and no skull fractures, but she had other signs consistent with suffering a stroke, according to court documents. Dr. Kathryn Crowell, then co-director of the Child Safety Team at Hershey Medical Center, testified at a December 2009 dependency hearing that the child suffered abuse, according to court documents. At Billups’ criminal trial a year later she said that when “I realized that I had been inaccurate in describing the rib fractures I tried to rectify the situation. I met with the hospital attorney, and he submitted a letter to the lawyers and the court that corrected that statement”. The attorney said later that the letter was written, but was never sent because of an oversight.
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/story/news/local/2016/01/01/cleared-child-abuseman-sues-county-state/78150436/

Bulletin: Clarence Moses-EL: Colorado; Conviction vacated, new trial ordered, after 28 years behind bars, Denver Post reports; "Judge Gerdes’ decision appears to hinge partly on the fact that another man has confessed on numerous occasions to committing the crime for which Moses-EL was imprisoned. The Denver Post remarks that those confessions, made by one LC Jackson, as well as blood tests indicating that the attacker had a different blood type than Moses-EL, were “some of the reasons Gerdes ordered a new trial.”..."Meanwhile, the outlet adds, scrutiny into the victim’s original testimony reveal additional inconsistencies which may point to Moses-EL’s innocence: “In 1987, when police, her sister and a neighbor asked who had attacked her, the woman gave three possibilities,” reports the Post. “A couple of days later, however, she told police for the first time that Moses-EL, a neighbor, was her attacker. . . . His identity had come to her in a dream, she said,” reported the Post. Moses-EL was ultimately convicted of sexual assault, assault and burglary and sentenced to 48 years in prison. While incarcerated, a court granted him DNA testing of the collected evidence but, says the Denver Post, the police “mistakenly destroyed the evidence before it could be analyzed.” The Innocence Project.

"A Denver, Colorado, man who spent more than 28 years in prison for a crime his lawyers say he didn’t commit, took his first steps towards freedom Tuesday after a judge vacated his conviction and ordered a new trial, according to a news story in the Denver Post. Clarence Moses-EL, now 60, was convicted of a 1987 sexual assault in which a woman was brutally beaten, dragged and raped, but has always maintained his innocence.........Judge Gerdes’ decision appears to hinge partly on the fact that another man has confessed on numerous occasions to committing the crime for which Moses-EL was imprisoned. The Denver Post remarks that those confessions, made by one LC Jackson, as well as blood tests indicating that the attacker had a different blood type than Moses-EL, were “some of the reasons Gerdes ordered a new trial.” Meanwhile, the outlet adds, scrutiny into the victim’s original testimony reveal additional inconsistencies which may point to Moses-EL’s innocence: “In 1987, when police, her sister and a neighbor asked who had attacked her, the woman gave three possibilities,” reports the Post. “A couple of days later, however, she told police for the first time that Moses-EL, a neighbor, was her attacker. . . . His identity had come to her in a dream, she said,” reported the Post.   Moses-EL was ultimately convicted of sexual assault, assault and burglary and sentenced to 48 years in prison.  While incarcerated, a court granted him DNA testing of the collected evidence but, says the Denver Post, the police “mistakenly destroyed the evidence before it could be analyzed.” Moses-EL will now await the Denver district attorney’s decision on whether or not to proceed in retrying the case."

http://www.innocenceproject.org/news-events-exonerations/denver-man2019s-conviction-vacated-after-28-years-in-prison

Rajesh and Nupur Talwar: Unanswered questions about the case from the Talwar supporter's Web page. (This list omits the biggest unanswered qestion of all: Why are these two innocent in prison at all - and why can't an immediate hearing be held to secure their release and vindication? HL);

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This list omits  the biggest unanswered question of all: Why are these two innocent  parents in prison at all - and why can't an immediate hearing be held to secure their release and vindication?

Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog;

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Unanswered Questions

The investigating agencies, media and the courts have held the parents guilty practically from the begining, even though there is no basis. It is unfortunate that the parents are undergoing the trial within the glare of such a negative public perception. If the case had been handled differently, it might well may have been solved by now, without creating so much grief and anguish for Aarushi’s family members. There remain many unanswered questions which need to be pondered over:

THE LOCAL POLICE

1) Why didn`t the police seal the crime scene immediately?

The police did a shoddy job of the investigation as they did not bother to either seal the scene of the crime or restrict entry of visitors including the media. 24 sets of fingerprints were taken from the scene of crime including the whiskey bottle found in the Talwar residence, but 22 of them were not found to be fit for comparison. After destroying vital evidence the UP police left little hope for nailing the accused.

2) Why didn’t the police call for a dog squad?

Clues regarding the identity of the killers may have been revealed if the police had called in the dog squad on the first day. However this golden opportunity was missed by the UP police.

3) Why didn’t the police check the food samples?

The police could have taken the food samples lying in the kitchen of the Talwars’ residence to check if Rajesh and Nupur had been drugged since Hemraj’s post mortem report showed that he did not consume any food that night.

4) Why were the police so lax and not check for blood stains?

A member of the family showed the police some suspected blood stains on the landing adjacent to the terrace and on the terrace door; when the police were shown this, all they said was ‘It seems no one has been here for months together.’ Whose directions were they awaiting by ignoring this evidence on day one? Did they really need to be told by the family members how to investigate?

5) Why did the police speak to the media when an investigation was on?

The UP police had asked Aarushi’s family not to interact with the media, giving them a veiled warning to the effect that it could derail the entire investigation and allow the culprits to escape. So gullible were the Talwars that they believed the Police completely and allowed them to spin a web of lies around them. Even today, these lies continue to vitiate the minds of people and the CBI has continued where the UP police left off. If the Talwars had countered these lies in the initial days itself, maybe Rajesh and now Nupur would not have been arrested for killing their own daughter! But how was a simple family to gauge the vicious minds of the investigating agencies in the middle of the huge tragedy which had struck?

THE CBI

1) Why was the CBI’s first investigation team on this case replaced by a second one, especially since the first team had announced it was about to chargesheet the culprits?

Why does the second CBI team not mention the first team’s investigations:

a. Multilpe scientific tests done on the Talwars including the lie detector, brain mapping and narco are clear whereas the same tests done on the three servants show their involvement in the crime. Why does the CBI not want to believe their own test results? Why did they subject both Rajesh and Nupur to a total of approx 9 tests each, if they were not going to take the leads from any of them?
b. Sound reconstruction test at the Talwars’ house in June 2008 had concluded that sound from Aarushi’s room couldn’t be heard in her parents’ room with the AC on in both the rooms at night. This of course is conveniently missing from the closure report filed by the 2nd team.
c. UV Light Testing on 1 June 2008 apparently didn’t pick up any bloodstains to indicate that Hemraj was killed anywhere except the terrace.

2) Why is the CBI ignoring vital evidence from its own investigation?

The forensic report confirms that Hemraj’s blood was on a pillow cover seized from Krishna’s room. The pillow cover was seized from Krishna’s house after a lead from his narco. When the pillow cover was sent to CFSL for analysis, human blood was recovered. On further analysis in CDFD, Hyderabad, it was found that the pillow cover had Hemraj’s blood on it. What more does the CBI want? Isn’t this incriminating evidence? Krishna’s narco shows his involvement, his pillow cover has one of the victim’s blood on it and the CBI wants to frame the Talwars?

3) IF, AS the CBI says, Rajesh committed the murders under sudden provocation, why didn’t his clothes from that evening have Hemraj’s blood on them?

Rajesh’s driver has very clearly stated that he saw Rajesh in the same set of clothes on the night before (when he came to return the car keys) and on the morning of the murders. It is obvious why Rajesh had Aarushi’s blood on his clothes, but it is more important to note that Hemraj’s blood was not found on his clothes. The description of Rajesh’s clothes on 15th night also matches that of the maid’s description of clothes given on 16th morning. And if as the CBI claims it was sudden provocation on the part of Rajesh, why then has Nupur after all this time been incriminated?

4) Why do  experts at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi completely contradict the CBI’s latest theories about the murder weapon?

The experts’ opinion presented in a report in The Indian Express on 7th June 2008, concluded that Aarushi was murdered with a sharp-edged knife, given the deep cut on her throat (with probably a wooden handle to administer the blunt injuries) — rather than a surgical instrument like a scalpel, which “is so small it can only cut the skin layer by layer”. The murder weapon has been changing from the 1st team (khukri – a curved Nepali knife), to the 2nd team (scalpel, golf club or perhaps a combination of golf club and scalpel). And what evidence does the CBI have for making the golf club the murder weapon? No blood has been found on the golf stick and the scalpel is nowhere to be found. Incidentally, Rajesh had a set of golf clubs at home and the CBI claims that 2 of the golf clubs were cleaner than the others. However the CBI’s own reports show that the golf club allegedly used in the crime had not been cleaned.

5)If Aarushi's  parents had tampered with the crime scene, why would they have left the biggest clue?

The Ballantine’s whisky bottle with many fingerprints and both victims’ bloodstains on their dining table for the police to find the next morning? Was this not the first thing they would have hidden?

6) Why do Raj Kumar’s former employers Dr Praful and Dr Anita Durrani claim that the CBI is misrepresenting their testimony?

The CBI has been claiming that Raj Kumar had an alibi for the night of the murders. But they have deliberately omitted what the Durranis have been saying all through out. Raj Kumar finished his work before midnight and since his bathroom was outside the house’s main back door, he could come and go whenever he wanted.

7) If Aarushis parents were guilty, why did they protest the CBI’s move to close the case last year and insist that investigations continue?

Would they not have been happy that the CBI had decided to close the case? Why were they so vehement that the CBI should not close the case and the culprits should be caught. If they have something to hide, why are they agitating for advanced forensics to be applied such as touch DNA?
THE TECHNOLOGY to solve this murder mystery exists!
Touch DNA is a technique that’s been used in criminal cases worldwide since it can analyse evidence even after years of contamination. In India recently permission was given in the Bhanwari case to get touch DNA done from abroad. (http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-02-15/jaipur/31062967_1_jaloda-bones-fbi-report) Why is the CBI refusing to put all speculation to rest and get touch DNA testing on the evidence it has gathered, such as the whiskey bottle with still-unidentified fingerprints?

8) Why does the post mortem report not corroborate with subsequent statements made by the doctor who conducted the PM?

The PM report shows that vagina was NAD (normal) and there was a whitish discharge. However almost 1.5 yrs later, in the statement to the 2nd CBI team the doctor suddenly remembers radical new facts that are not present in the original postmortem report — such as the hymen was “ruptured”, had “an old tear”, “the vaginal orifice… was unduly large”, “mouth of cervix was visible”, the private parts were extraordinarily dilated and cleaned after the murder. These new facts are not only radical but extremely strange. What is the credibility of these findings? Why are they not mentioned in the PM report? In addition, cleaning is inconsistent with the post-mortem report’s claim about presence of whitish discharge.

9) HOW ARE we being ‘sensitive’ to the underclass by unquestioningly believing the police and CBI’s insinuations that Hemraj-the-grandfather was in a sexual relationship with a child?

Is it necessary that the servants are innocent and the Talwars are guilty just because the underprivilged have to be protected? Is there any basis for the innuendoes which have been made first by the Noida police and now by the 2nd CBI team? We seem to be deliberately shredding apart the reputation of both Hemraj and Aarushi after they are dead just because they can’t protect their honor! As a society, we seem to have degraded ourselves to the lowest level possible.

These unanswered questions can be found at the Talwar family's web page at:

http://justiceforaarushitalwar.com/unanswered-questions/

Bulletin: Tommy Zeigler: Florida; 40th anniversary of murders that sent Winter Garden man to death row: Tommy Zeigler convicted of murdering wife, three others. He has been granted a hearing likely in February, to argue for re-testing of DNA on some of his and the victims' clothing, believing modern science will prove he's not the killer. WESH Home

"Christmas is a time of hope, but hope of freedom may be all but gone for a former Winter Garden businessman. Christmas Eve marks the 40th anniversary of the brutal murders that sent Tommy Zeigler to death row. Zeigler is awaiting a death warrant for the Christmas Eve, 1975, murders inside his furniture store. His wife, Eunice, her parents, Perry and Virginia Edwards, and customer Charlie Mays were shot. The men were beaten. Zeigler claimed he was shot by The state won a conviction, alleging Zeigler did it to collect on his wife's insurance policies. "I was sentenced to death, and I fully expect that to be carried out, unless we can get this evidence into court and approved," Zeigler said. Zeigler has been granted a hearing, likely in February, to argue for re-testing of DNA on some of his and the victims' clothing, believing modern science will prove he's not the killer. It's something that state attorney Jeff Ashton aims to fight. "This is never going to end. If Mr. Zeigler got every DNA test he asked for, he'd find something else to ask for," Ashton said.........Connie Crawford, Zeigler's cousin, said she is never giving up on what she calls a journey for justice. Crawford was photographed in the newspaper with Zeigler shortly after the murders. She urges people to read the mountain of information on websites that claim the state bungled evidence then and is covering it up now. "If the state wants to lie, they can lie," Crawford said. "I think they just don't want to lose the case."

http://www.wesh.com/news/40th-anniversary-of-murders-that-sent-winter-garden-man-to-death-row/37125202