What I remember most about the attempt to get Ray a second trial was the efforts that went into preventing a ballistics test being made on the rifle with Ray's fingerprints on it. The prosecution was coming up with every bullshit excuse in the book to keep it from happening. My favorite was "Well the bore is rusty and if we clean the rust out, it will be an invalid test." Judge Brown was blowing the whistle and throwing the Bullshit flag over and over, but the result was Ray didn't get his second trial.
I saw a very similar film with court footage about 12 years ago. Then it vanished. It also had Clark's death bed confession to being the actual shooter. But like the guy said, our FBI, no way. Jpaul
What I remember most about the attempt to get Ray a second trial was the efforts that went into preventing a ballistics test being made on the rifle with Ray's fingerprints on it.
ReplyDeleteThe prosecution was coming up with every bullshit excuse in the book to keep it from happening. My favorite was "Well the bore is rusty and if we clean the rust out, it will be an invalid test." Judge Brown was blowing the whistle and throwing the Bullshit flag over and over, but the result was Ray didn't get his second trial.
A good watch.
ReplyDeleteI saw a very similar film with court footage about 12 years ago. Then it vanished. It also had Clark's death bed confession to being the actual shooter. But like the guy said, our FBI, no way.
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I'll just leave this here:
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/mGZTZQXLIMo
Brandon's mention is where I got the linked video from.
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