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David Camm: Indiana; Major Development; Bulletin: Settlement reached in the malicious prosecution lawsuit brought - by the former Indiana State Trooper who was twice acquitted of killing his family - against Floyd County..."Camm had sued Floyd County for $30 million for what he alleged was malicious prosecution after his arrest and imprisonment in the fatal shootings of his wife and two children in September 2000, the Courier-Journal reported in October 2014. In the claim, Camm sought damages for his wrongful convictions, the trauma he suffered while held in prison, his past and continuing loss of income, and emotional well-being. The suit named former prosecutor Stan Faith and four former employees who worked in his office – Jacque Vaught, Tony Toran, Mark Henderson and Emily Fessel. Also identified are current Floyd Prosecutor Keith Henderson, Deputy Floyd Prosecutor Steve Owen, former investigator Wayne Kessinger, and two men Faith hired to work the crime scene and analyze forensic evidence, Robert Stites and Rod Englert. Garry R. Adams with Clay Daniel Walton & Adams PLC in Louisville said while Camm reached a settlement with Floyd County employees, those considered Indiana state employees – such as Faith and Henderson – are still involved in the $30 million lawsuit. He added that the "primary bad actors" are still involved." Courier-Journal;

Next: False confessions: Vice Magazine explores why police interrogations lead to so many false confessions - and suggests an alternative approach to the prevailing model in the USA - and other countries - which permits police to lie to suspects. Writer Cole Kazdin..."Police interrogation in America is fundamentally dishonest," says Richard Leo, a professor of law and psychology at the University of San Francisco and a leading researcher on police interrogation practices. "Police are allowed to lie all the time. They call lying about evidence 'ruses.' It's kind of Orwellian in the sense that it's not really a ruse. If I'm telling you I've got your fingerprints and your DNA and I have a surveillance video... and you're a kid and you don't know that police can lie about evidence, you're thinking, How would I be in a video?" Combined with other manipulations, experts say, such tactics can drive an innocent person to confess to murder."
Previous: Major Development; Flawed forensic labs; 'Bureau of Forensic Fire and Explosives Analysis' (Florida); Florida's only state-run lab that analyzes fire evidence has been stripped of its national accreditation after a review team doubted its work in more than a dozen cases, The Tampa Bay Times reports. (August 16, 2016);..." The team reported that it randomly tested 26 cases and found 14 in which the lab erroneously found the presence of gasoline, which it said "indicates concern regarding the competency of laboratory personnel.""There were 14 cases in which concerns for the accuracy of the reported findings are in question," the review said. The three-person review team, which included a forensic expert from the Pinellas-Pasco medical examiner's office*, Reta Newman, also reported a lack of protocols, lack of quality controls, erroneous conclusions and use of a method "not accepted in the scientific community." That method is the use of distorted extracted ion profile ratios to identify presence of gasoline in fire debris. As Florida's elected CFO, Atwater encountered controversy with the lab soon after he was first elected six years ago. In a case that he inherited from his predecessor, Atwater quietly paid $247,000 in taxpayer money to settle a civil rights lawsuit filed by a North Florida man who said a botched lab investigation of a boat fire resulted in his being charged with arson and insurance fraud. The settlement was confidential (Atwater's office confirmed the payment) and charges against A. Stanley Freeman of Crawfordville were dropped. But the case didn't end there. A private investigator hired by Freeman, John Lentini of Islamorada, has relentlessly questioned the lab's work and filed a complaint last year that foreshadowed the lab's current problems. "I suspect that erroneous identifications of gasoline happen on a routine basis," Lentini wrote in a four-page complaint he filed in May 2015, a month after the lab passed an accreditation review with flying colors. "The director and his staff want very badly to avoid a false negative," Lentini told the Times/Herald in an interview. "A false negative means a bad guy is going to get away, but a false positive means an innocent person is going to get charged with arson." Lentini said it happened in a second case involving a Miami woman, Irma Castro, whose house fire he said was attributed to the same flawed conclusion of the presence of gasoline." Reporter Steve Bousquet. The Tampa Bay Times reports. Tampa Bay Times; Steve Bousquet;
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"A $450,000 settlement was reached Friday in a lawsuit between Floyd County and former Indiana State Trooper David Camm, who was twice acquitted of killing his family. Camm had sued Floyd County for $30 million for what he alleged was malicious prosecution after his arrest and imprisonment in the fatal shootings of his wife and two children in September 2000, the Courier-Journal reported in October 2014. In the claim, Camm sought damages for his wrongful convictions, the trauma he suffered while held in prison, his past and continuing loss of income, and emotional well-being. The suit named former prosecutor Stan Faith and four former employees who worked in his office – Jacque Vaught, Tony Toran, Mark Henderson and Emily Fessel. Also identified are current Floyd Prosecutor Keith Henderson, Deputy Floyd Prosecutor Steve Owen, former investigator Wayne Kessinger, and two men Faith hired to work the crime scene and analyze forensic evidence, Robert Stites and Rod Englert. Garry R. Adams with Clay Daniel Walton & Adams PLC in Louisville said while Camm reached a settlement with Floyd County employees, those considered Indiana state employees – such as Faith and Henderson – are still involved in the $30 million lawsuit. He added that the "primary bad actors" are still involved. Camm was a state trooper but left the agency about four months before he reported finding his wife, Kim, 35, and their children, Brad, 7, and Jill, 5, fatally shot in the family’s garage in Georgetown in September 2000. Camm, who spent 13 years in prison, insisted he was innocent, but prosecutors and police said evidence at the crime scene and on his clothing showed he was responsible. The case captured national attention as Camm was tried twice, only to have both convictions overturned. He was acquitted in 2013."
http://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/local/indiana/2016/08/17/settlement-reached-david-camm-suit/88906586/

See comprehensive Wikipedia report at the link below:Witness tampering allegations:
"In addition to testimony by Rob Stites alleging subornation of perjury, several other allegations of witness tampering surfaced during the case. Lynn Scamahorn, a DNA analyst from the Indiana State Police claimed that during the first trial former Floyd County Prosecutor Stan Faith threatened her when she refused to perjure herself that she found Camm's DNA on Charles Boney's sweatshirt.[72]Fingerprint analyst John Singleton reported a similar encounter. He claims Faith wanted him to "shade the truth" while testifying regarding the then unidentified palm print on Kim Camm's Bronco later determined to belong to Charles Boney.[73] The defense also accused the state of witness tampering and presenting false and misleading testimony regarding the molestation allegations. During the first trial, the prosecution alleged that the injuries Jill sustained happened during the attack, as testified to by the state medical examiner. During the second trial, they altered their timeline to implicate Camm instead of Boney on the basis of testimony by a single witness who changed their theory at the last minute. "Dr. Spivack, before in her deposition, told us that the injuries occurred near the time of death due to the painful nature of them. Today, on the stand, she backtracked to fit the state's theory." said Defense attorney Stacy Uliana.[74] Following the verdict, the jurors explained that they made their decision largely on the molestation allegations, specifically, the testimony of Spivack, who testified that the child was molested several hours prior to her death instead of during the attack.[75] DNA analyst Lynn Scamahorn also claimed the prosecutor also attempted to get her to commit perjury by testifying that lab results indicate the comforter from the master bedroom in the Camm household contained vaginal secretions or saliva from Jill to help bolster their claims that Jill had been molested; no such test exists.[76] The fraudulent testimony of Rob Stites and the attempted coercion of Lynne Scamahorne were featured in a forensic textbook called Forensic Fraud: Evaluating Law Enforcement and Forensic Science Cultures in the Context of Examiner Misconduct."
 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Camm

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