| In the overall scheme of a capital murder, which carries more weight--multiple DNA matches of the killer to the crime, or allegations of sexual impropriety in the dead victim's past? |
| Judge Thompson's ruling says the DNA is inconsequential, and that the allegations of sexual impropriety on Karen's part is the most important "evidence" of all--important enough to set the killer free. Thompson's saying this would be enough to change a jury's mind, despite the DNA, and despite the mountain of evidence against Moore. Brother Powell is right about one thing: this couldn't be done in a jury. No. It had to be done in the back room. |
| Paul Stalnaker, a juror from Hartselle, has been featured in a Decatur Daily article. He's happy that dwm is free, although Mr. Stalnaker voted him guilty on four counts of capital murder. He thinks dwm was there at the time, robbing the place, while a phantom friend of his killed Karen. He did not understand the DNA, so he disregarded it. He liked home-folks Powell/Halbrooks, and disliked the prosecutors from Montgomery. And he seems to be saying he was forced to vote guilty. Mr. Stalnaker is accusing himself and the jury as a whole of misconduct--misconduct severe enough to cause a mistrial! If what he's saying is true, then why did he wait over two years to tell it? This juror was apparently not listening to anything that was said. He wasn't listening, he wasn't thinking and wasn't capable of thinking for himself. This was a capital murder trial, and there was a mountain of evidence to consider. The reason this juror voted guilty, he says, was a letter dwm wrote to his uncle confessing his involvement and no such letter ever existed. I'm floored. |