My new video about the Cooper case (wrongful conviction in NC)

[sunshine05]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltSO-uA1ti0

[Hatha Sunahara]

That's a great video. I recently saw a movie called Conviction which has a similar theme. It was about a man who was framed by some overzealous cops, and whose sister actually went to law school and worked tirelessly for 15 years to overturn his conviction using DNA evidence. Your video reminded me of that story, and to not give up hope. Here's a link to the IMDB page on Conviction:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1244754/

You would think that with the huge effect it can have on people's lives, the legal system would have higher standards for validating evidence and dealing with incompetence or corruption among those who administer it. But it doesn't. It's more like one of those shredding machines that tree surgeons use. Better to keep a lot of distance between it and you, if you can.


Hatha

[Glass]

I think an excellent video and no death metal music attached. What a nice change to an expose video on YT. I did find the audio a bit low.

I think this was an internal tribal dispute OR she was sacrificed and they covered it up.

[sunshine05]

That's a great video. I recently saw a movie called Conviction which has a similar theme. It was about a man who was framed by some overzealous cops, and whose sister actually went to law school and worked tirelessly for 15 years to overturn his conviction using DNA evidence. Your video reminded me of that story, and to not give up hope. Here's a link to the IMDB page on Conviction:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1244754/

You would think that with the huge effect it can have on people's lives, the legal system would have higher standards for validating evidence and dealing with incompetence or corruption among those who administer it. But it doesn't. It's more like one of those shredding machines that tree surgeons use. Better to keep a lot of distance between it and you, if you can.


Hatha

Yes, I remember seeing that movie. Since learning about the Cooper case, I've come across a few others like this where it's so obvious the guys were railroaded. The saddest thing is how terribly it affects the families. They are good people and they are dealing with financial hardship, the pain of their son/brother being sitting in prison and in some cases custody issues because in cases like this the children always end up with the victim's family and they can make it difficult on the families of the accused. It's so disturbing that this is happening and it really can happen to anyone.

[iOWNme]

GREAT video sunshine....Kudos to you for your efforts.

[k-os]

Wow, sunshine05, that video gave me the chills. It's not only really well made, but . . . the amount of disturbing information it is a little overwhelming. I started to list all of the points that disturbed me, and I discovered I was copying the entire video's text. Damn. That poor guy.

People throw the phrase "my worst nightmare" around, but I really do think that being falsely accused of killing the person I love the most has got to be my top 3 worse nightmares.

So, what's your theory on all of this? Were the cops "just" lazy douchebags who wanted to "score" a conviction, or was someone (or multiple people) on the police force involved in a more sinister way? Or something else?

[willie pete]

Never talk to the police without council, it will NEVER help you and ONLY Hurt you, and Especially in a case like this envolving a couple soon-to-be divorced. I think it's a given, the FIRST person they look at in a situation like this is the other spouse

[sunshine05]

Wow, sunshine05, that video gave me the chills. It's not only really well made, but . . . the amount of disturbing information it is a little overwhelming. I started to list all of the points that disturbed me, and I discovered I was copying the entire video's text. Damn. That poor guy.

People throw the phrase "my worst nightmare" around, but I really do think that being falsely accused of killing the person I love the most has got to be my top 3 worse nightmares.

So, what's your theory on all of this? Were the cops "just" lazy douchebags who wanted to "score" a conviction, or was someone (or multiple people) on the police force involved in a more sinister way? Or something else?

Part of it is that Cary has such a "safe town" image that I think they really just wanted this to go away. A random crime could be really damaging to that image.

There's a lot of politics at play too because the attorneys representing her family have a lot of influence in this county's court system.

The judge is a former cop and prosecutor and when Brad's attorneys started with the corrupt cop talk, they just weren't going to let him get away with that so they rigged it so that the jury wouldn't get to hear about the tampering evidence. It's so frustrating to see all of this and there is little one can do about it.

[sunshine05]

Never talk to the police without council, it will NEVER help you and ONLY Hurt you

Yes, he talked to police the first 2 days and it came out in the trial the lead detective post added over 10 items to his notes, trying to make it appear that he wrote them all on those first two days. The defense atty called him on it. Some of it was clearly made up and you can't post add information like that! They are so crooked.