STORY: "'Fatal Vision" case: Jeffrey MacDonald memo urges judge to vacate triple-murder conviction," by staff writer Paul Woolverton, published by the Fay Observer on April 2, 2013.
GIST: "The lawyer for former Army doctor Jeffrey MacDonald argued in a memo filed Monday that new evidence should overturn his conviction for the 1970 murders of his wife and children at their Fort Bragg home. Lawyer Gordon Widenhouse of Chapel Hill reiterates evidence he presented during a seven-day hearing in federal court last September. Prosecutors have 60 days to file a response.
The memo includes some of the key points made by MacDonald's defense, including statements from Helena Stoeckley that she was in the house with three men who killed the family and that she was pressured by a prosecutor to lie during MacDonald's trial. The defense also points to DNA evidence from unidentified people that could indicate intruders were in the home. The technology to test DNA did not exist when MacDonald was tried in 1979. The combination of the DNA and Stoeckley's statements "show by clear and convincing evidence that no reasonable juror would have found Jeffrey MacDonald guilty if she had heard this new evidence," Widenhouse wrote."
The entire story can be found at:
http://www.fayobserver.com/articles/2013/04/01/1247518?sac=fo.homPUBLISHER'S NOTE:
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The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at:
http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith
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http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html
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