Bay Area is stunned as a lying BART cop is reinstated

originally published by: Indybay
published: 20th December 2010

Domenici was fired after an independent investigating law firm Meyers Nave concluded she had lied about what took place the night of Grant’s murder.

Domenici who had been on 15 months paid leave at the time of her firing, appealed via arbitration with the ruling she be immediately reinstated with back pay. The arbitrator, William Riker insisted that the prior investigation was flawed and that he saw no evidence that Domenici was untruthful.

Rulings like these have given people more and more reason to have little confidence in the justice system. What has taken place over the past two years around the killing of a Oscar Grant is something all of us involved with social justice issues will have to study for years to come. How can one be so meticulous in following every ‘proper’ step to seek justice only to see it thwarted at every turn?

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Convicted wife killer freed from prison

Eddie Gilfoyle

originally by: BBC News
published: 23rd December 2010

A man who has always maintained he was wrongly convicted of murdering his pregnant wife has been released from prison on parole. Eddie Gilfoyle, 49, was found guilty of killing his wife Paula, who was found hanged in the garage of the couple’s home in Upton, Wirral in 1992. Prosecutors claimed he had fooled the 32-year-old into writing a suicide note before tying a noose around her neck.

The Parole Board said Gilfoyle was not allowed to speak to the media. He was released from Sudbury Prison in Derbyshire on Wednesday with conditions attached to his licence.

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Anti-death penalty activist meets with Troy

Troy Davis
Troy Davis and family members

all credits: AJC News
November 2010

A prominent anti-death penalty activist visited a Georgia death row inmate who claims he was wrongly convicted.

Sister Helen Prejean said Monday that Troy Anthony Davis was in “strong spirits” and that he gave a persuasive argument about his case during her visit with him at the Georgia State Prison in Jackson.

Davis has spent nearly 20 years on death row for the 1989 slaying of an off-duty police officer and has long claimed new evidence would clear his name if a court gave him a chance to present it.

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