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the fiber evidence that was found and the fiber evidence that i had looked at was apparently so compelling that the defendant didn t want to continue on with this case, which is quite unusual for a capital murder trial. so, luna changed his plea to guilty and admitted what he had done in open court. mr. luna, how do you plead to the charges of capital murder? guilty. he testified that he enjoyed it, that he lived for the adrenaline rush that it gave him to victimize people and to get away with it. i cannot fathom the terror that that young man went through. and really, there could be nothing worse than seeing a joe luna walk out of your closet. in march of 2006, luna asked the jury to give him the death penalty. ....
no, i did not. never met them once? no. not once? no. it s incalculable the odds that it s not. that they were not in contact with him in his environment. the fiber evidence is your biggest obstacle. that fiber evidence may have been manipulated in this case point blank and simple because they had a suspect which was wayne and that manipulation no doubt continued even after my trial up until this point. there were just too many fibers placed on too many bodies. mike dearham in blue seen here the night of the verdict was one of the jurors. what would the chances be of finding these same all of these fibers? the chances would be just astronomical. this witness, robert henry, did place williams with the very last victim, nathaniel cater. henry worked with cater. ....
rogers home is eight blocks away from where he was found today. then there was the murder of larry rogers, a retarded youth. this witness testified she saw rogers slumped over in a station wagon as wayne williams drove away. but another person also saw rogers in that station wagon at that same intersection that day. he helped a police artist draw this sketch. it does not look like wayne williams. however, the defense never called the other witness to ask about the sketch. no. i don t even remember seeing that. supporters of wayne williams say there was one murder which shows the fiber evidence could be faulty. the death of 12-year-old clifford jones, left by a dumpster in an alley on a summer night in 1980. some of those unusual green carpet fibers were on his body. yet, another boy said he saw a coin laundry operator kill clifford jones. ....
when we met they pitched a royal fit. they were not going to overturn the conviction, the five of them wasn t. in the end, all the justices except smith agreed to uphold the conviction. wayne williams said the court was bullied into making its u-turn. i think the pressure came from as high as the white house. and we ll leave it at that. not so, said george smith, now retired from the court but still practicing law in his 90s. i can t imagine that would have happened in a case like this. i can t imagine having any case but certainly this case. it didn t reach to the white house. smith did write a dissenting opinion. he said the fiber evidence fell short of scientific certainty and the prosecution should not have been allowed to use the so-called pattern evidence on ten other murders. i said only similarity in the crimes in this case is the fact that all of them were dead. smith was denounced on the floor of the georgia legislature. ....
Royal fit. they were not going to overturn the conviction, the five of them wasn t. in the end, all the justices except smith agreed to uphold the conviction. wayne williams said the court was bullied into making its u-turn. i think the pressure came from as high as the white house. and we ll leave it at that. not so, said george smith, now retired from the court but still practicing law in his 90s. i can t imagine that would have happened in a case like this. i can t imagine having any case but certainly this case. it didn t reach to the white house. smith did write a dissenting opinion. he said the fiber evidence fell short of scientific certainty and the prosecution should not have been allowed to use the so-called pattern evidence on ten other murders. i said only similarity in the crimes in this case is the fact that all of them were dead. smith was denounced on the floor of the georgia legislature. i was an n-lover. ....