Wudge
New Member
"The state has now agreed to settle his lawsuit against the lead investigator, Dwight Ransome, $3.9 million.The prosecutors in the case, David Hoke and Debra Graves, were reprimanded by the State Bar association for how they handled the case.
The paramount issue in the trial was whether Gell could have committed the murder because he went to prison on April 4 but 17 witnesses testified that they had seen Jenkins alive after Gell went to prison. Ransome based his case on the statements of a witnesses who testified that Gell told her he killed Jenkins. It turns out the witness Crystal Morris was not a reliable witness, for a number of reasons, most of which Ransome and the prosecutors should have realized."
http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Art...s_innocent_and_that_the_System_is_guilty.html
[Gell's case is a good example of why I have long considered NC to be the state with the most corrupt criminal justice system. Mike Nifong, of Duke lacrosse rape case infamy, was neither an accident nor an aberration. Crooked DAs and ADAs are bred there.]
The paramount issue in the trial was whether Gell could have committed the murder because he went to prison on April 4 but 17 witnesses testified that they had seen Jenkins alive after Gell went to prison. Ransome based his case on the statements of a witnesses who testified that Gell told her he killed Jenkins. It turns out the witness Crystal Morris was not a reliable witness, for a number of reasons, most of which Ransome and the prosecutors should have realized."
http://www.beaufortobserver.net/Art...s_innocent_and_that_the_System_is_guilty.html
[Gell's case is a good example of why I have long considered NC to be the state with the most corrupt criminal justice system. Mike Nifong, of Duke lacrosse rape case infamy, was neither an accident nor an aberration. Crooked DAs and ADAs are bred there.]