Crosley Green on 48 Hours - I am VERY troubled by this.

[kent]

OK, OK - fixed the link for the video by snagging it from YouTube.  NOW maybe somebody will have a comment?

If you watch the video, I'm sure you'll find this situation equally disturbing.  The inconsistencies (footprints, DNA, damming testimony, photo line up, GSR issues, etc.) along with an apparent rush to judgment are astounding.

Link to a VERY SMALL portion of the program text in part from:

www.cbsnews.com/news/crosley-greens-last-chance-for-freedom/

For more than 16 years, "48 Hours" has investigated what many say is a case of injustice. That case began in the early morning hours of April 4, 1989, when a young woman called 911 saying she thought her boyfriend had been shot. The problem was she was three miles away from the crime scene and she had trouble telling police how to get there.

"Something was not right," said Mark Rixey, who at the time was a road patrol deputy for the Brevard County Sheriff's Office. "Why would somebody say there's something happening here and nothing's there?"

"All we had was that he had been shot and that he was in the orange groves. I sent a deputy to pick her up because we absolutely, would never have found her ... we'd have been there all night looking," Diane Clarke, who was a patrol sergeant in Brevard County, told "48 Hours" correspondent Erin Moriarty.

"She remained in the vehicle out here and refused to walk down there," said Rixey.

"'You don't wanna see him? You don't wanna know his condition?' ...there was something wrong with this," said Clarke.

ETA to fix previously posted video link - I hope

 

[Deleted]

Wow, they didn't even investigate the GF? 

Brevard County has a lot of corruption and people on power trips.

[kent]

Jun 1, 2015 11:56:39 GMT -5 @rockit said:

Wow, they didn't even investigate the GF? 

Brevard County has a lot of corruption and people on power trips.

GF isn't talking except to say it was Crosley that did it.

On the DNA side of things, the prosecutor hung his hat on mitochondrial DNA vs. Nuclear DNA based on a hair sample found in the truck.  As it turns out, Crosley's brother, O'Connor, had been in the truck PRIOR it being sold to the victim.

From the published text:

Uses of Mitochondrial DNA Found in Hair
 Mitochondrial DNA is found in cell mitochondria – cell organelles located in cytoplasm responsible for supplying the cell with energy. Mitochondrial DNA is far more abundant than nuclear DNA with a typical human cell containing many thousands of copies of MtDNA as opposed to just one single copy of nuclear DNA.

In many countries, governments have access to DNA databases where the profiles of thousands of prosecuted criminals are stored. The DNA profiles are however, nuclear DNA profiles and not mitochondrial DNA profiles. This again contributes to the increased distinguishing power of nuclear DNA in crime solving. Further to this, mitochondrial DNA has no discriminating power between individuals as all people sharing a common maternal blood line will also share the exact same MtDNA profile. This means that one cannot distinguish between individuals from the same maternal line based upon analysis of their respective MtDNA profiles as profiles will be identical between maternal blood relatives.

[kent]

OK people - time to comment - I fixed the post.

[Tennesseer]

I read the article-did not watch the video.

I think a full investigation and re-trial is in order here.  Too many holes and what appears to be potential coerced testimony.

[NastyWoman]

I saw that 48 hrs episode.  What cn I say: the stubborn denial that they may  have convicted the wrong man/person was beyond disgusting(and I'mgiving them more of the benifit of than is deserved here).  As presented there were actually many reasons to doubt that this man was guilty and justice (shoud) demand(s) that this case gets a thourough review!