royalfan5
12/5/2006, 11:21 AM
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=1636&u_sid=2291749
The jist of it is:A farm couple was murdered in their home on Easter Night. Their nephew and his cousin were arrested. Nephew(who is classified as borderline mentally handicapped) confesses and implicates his cousin however there is no physical evidence linking them. A couple weeks later, a teenaged couple from Wisconsin on a crime spree are arrested for the murder, and they confess without implicating the other two. There is also substantial physical evidence linking them to the crime scene. So the DA was going to try everybody for murder even through they had two seperate scenarios on how it happened. Basically the DA was going to try and prove that the couple was murdered twice by two seperate groups of people. The DA also lost some of the evidence he had. Eventually they freed the cousin who was being held as the getway driver, and now they have dropped charges against the nephew. I think this case illustrates how low the legal talent pool can be in rural areas, and the lack of common sense in the justice system at times.
The jist of it is:A farm couple was murdered in their home on Easter Night. Their nephew and his cousin were arrested. Nephew(who is classified as borderline mentally handicapped) confesses and implicates his cousin however there is no physical evidence linking them. A couple weeks later, a teenaged couple from Wisconsin on a crime spree are arrested for the murder, and they confess without implicating the other two. There is also substantial physical evidence linking them to the crime scene. So the DA was going to try everybody for murder even through they had two seperate scenarios on how it happened. Basically the DA was going to try and prove that the couple was murdered twice by two seperate groups of people. The DA also lost some of the evidence he had. Eventually they freed the cousin who was being held as the getway driver, and now they have dropped charges against the nephew. I think this case illustrates how low the legal talent pool can be in rural areas, and the lack of common sense in the justice system at times.