As I recall this case it was the wife of the murder victim that testified it was her and the only other evidence was a jail house snitch. Unless we intend to abandon eyewitness id then we have to realize that people are going to be sent to prison on bad id. You can improve the procedures for id's by victims but the problem will never go away

"It's been a longtime coming." Finally, a high beam camera-light will be pointed at our broken justice system. Furthermore, to not feature Joyce Ann Brown story on a national scale would be an injustice.

One of the major issues is how people (not only juries, but police officers and investigators) give entirely too much weight to eyewitnesses.

There has to be some way to work to counteract that.

Here's what I never, ever got about Joyce Ann Brown's case--were her coworkers not eyewitnesses, too? I mean, they saw her at work during the time of the murder! Dang, if I ever get arrested and charged with something, I hope I'm not merely at work with regular folks during the time the crime occurred. Rather, I hope I'm in a convent feeding lunch to disabled orphans or something on a day when the Pope is visiting with a bunch of camera crews following him.

Seems like there was another Texas case where a black male was at work during the crime, his coworkers testified he was at work during the relevant time period, and he also got convicted and sent to prison until that was overturned much later on. Justice really is blind sometimes, and not in a good way.

Hey knottygirl
Don't be black and get arrested in Dallas.

Hey knottygirl
Don't be black and get arrested in Dallas.

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Got the first part covered. Hopefully I can avoid the second part as well. I still plan to hang out in convents and orphanages in my spare time just in case, though.