Time for another letter to the DA. There's a lot of shit going on right now that's extremely relevant to this case; let's make sure that Harris County hears about it. As always please feel free to copy this letter, write your own, or just send one of the blog flyers on the toolbar to your right.
The Honorable Devon Anderson
1201 Franklin Street, Suite 600
Houston, Texas
77002-1923
Ma’am,
I'm writing to you today about the case of Carlos Coy, #908426.
A statistical study using a
survival analysis model calculated the likelihood of exoneration of the prisoners
currently on death row; removing the possibility of a prisoner being removed
from death row, and therefore losing the exhaustive review process inherent to
a death sentence revealed a statistical likelihood of about 1 in 25 eventually
being exonerated.
It is sobering to imagine that we
have executed innocent people, and this study highlights the fact that many of
these individuals, who may eventually have proven their innocence, see their
sentences reduced to life in prison. Once this is done the government no longer
reviews their cases, so the circumstances which make it most likely that the
truth will eventually be found are lost.
You know more than most people the
exhaustive reviews and appeals that the justice system provides to prisoners
sentenced to die. If it’s possible that 1 in 25 of them are actually innocent,
what must the margin for error be in cases in which there is no
government-funded review?
In a case like Coy’s, where there
was never any physical evidence, where the testimony against him was confused
and contradictory, does it not seem that the likely hood of a wrongful
conviction would be greater than 1 in 25?
Ma’am, I believe that if you take
the time to consider his case you too will see that there is no evidence that
justice was served. Please, order a review of his case. Give Coy a new trial,
one free of the whiff of corruption that so thoroughly permeates his current
conviction.
http://www.newsweek.com/one-25-executed-us-innocent-study-claims-248889
http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/Study-1-in-25-death-cases-likely-innocent-5435706.php
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/study-25-death-cases-innocent-23503280
3 comments:
I have a question totally unrelated, sorry I am off topic but I sent los a letter in the pen and I put a 0 in front of his inmate letter, it will still get through right?
That's not off topic! I don't know for sure, but I think it will get through just fine. If not they'll return it to you, and you can re-send it.
where can i read the girls testimony?
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