FIRST DEGREE LIE PART 2
My First Degree Murder conviction was based on the theory that while Bill, Rose and I, drove from Lansing to Albion, we stopped at a Meijer's store, where I supposedly purchased the items used to kill Rose. That was the story Bill Brown gave the authorities. Prosecutor John Kelsey told the jury that the stop at Meijer's was proof that the killing was planned and thus the reason why I was being prosecuted for First Degree Murder.
After Bill Brown gave his initial story, he was questioned about the specifics. As I proved in First Degree Lie, Part 1, those specifics didn't add up. Meijer's didn't sell the hatchet Bill Brown said I bought. Furthermore, did anyone catch where Prosecutor John Kelsey said Bill Brown claimed the Meijer's store was located?
Bill Brown testified that the Meijer's store was located in Grand Rapids. He also testified that the Grand Rapids Meijer's store, was in close proximity to the house in Albion. Take a look at a map of Michigan. Grand Rapids is more than 100 miles away from Albion.
Calhoun County Prosecutor John Kelsey knew Bill Brown's story didn't add up... but he had to make it fit in order to win his case. Therefore, Prosecutor John Kelsey employed the assistance of the Michigan State Police, to help Bill Brown revise his story. The Michigan State Police took Bill Brown to a Meijer's store in Jackson, and gave him a location that would make his story more accurate.
Remember... Bill Brown is cooperating in exchange for his deal. In order for him to receive that one year deal and not be prosecuted for murder, he had to work with the police. Bill Brown said the Meijer's store was located in Grand Rapids, but in order for his story to ring true, the store would have to be located in Jackson. To make that happen, Michigan State Police detectives drove Bill Brown to a Meijer's store that would substantiate his story. Bill Brown played along.
The authorities were no longer investigating Bill Brown's
story, they were fabricating their own story. It wasn't Bill Brown who drove
the Michigan State Police detectives to that Meijer's location. The detectives
drove Bill Brown to the only Meijer's store that would support his story. Then,
the detectives asked him, "Is this the Meijer's you went to?" Of
course Bill Brown answered "Yes." The detectives didn't take him to
Grand Rapids and ask him if one of those locations was the Meijer's store he was
referring to. Basically, the Michigan State Police detectives took Bill Brown
to the Meijer's store location they wanted him to incorporate into his story
and said, "This is where you went."
Yet, all of that preparation still didn't stop Bill Brown from taking the stand and maintaining his initial lie: that the Meijer's store was located in Grand Rapids. I guess it was just too many lies to remember.
During my trial, Prosecutor John Kelsey showed the jury an aerial photo of the Meijer's store in Jackson and asked Bill Brown if it was the same Meijer's store he claimed we stopped at. Bill Brown said yes it was. When my defense attorney pressed Bill Brown for the specifics of how he knew that the aerial photo was truly the Meijer's he claimed we stopped at, Bill Brown told the jury that he recognized the highway. He didn't know what highway it was but in his memory, that was the highway.
However, when Bill Brown had given his previous testimony, before he was put on the spot and pressed for specifics, Bill Brown testified that he didn't have much recollection of the route we took but was sure that it was all back roads. "There was no highways involved," he stated.
Yet, all of that preparation still didn't stop Bill Brown from taking the stand and maintaining his initial lie: that the Meijer's store was located in Grand Rapids. I guess it was just too many lies to remember.
During my trial, Prosecutor John Kelsey showed the jury an aerial photo of the Meijer's store in Jackson and asked Bill Brown if it was the same Meijer's store he claimed we stopped at. Bill Brown said yes it was. When my defense attorney pressed Bill Brown for the specifics of how he knew that the aerial photo was truly the Meijer's he claimed we stopped at, Bill Brown told the jury that he recognized the highway. He didn't know what highway it was but in his memory, that was the highway.
However, when Bill Brown had given his previous testimony, before he was put on the spot and pressed for specifics, Bill Brown testified that he didn't have much recollection of the route we took but was sure that it was all back roads. "There was no highways involved," he stated.
I know what route we took from Lansing to Albion. I had been
driving that back road route my entire life. There are no highways anywhere
near those roads. Stopping at Meijer's in Jackson, or any other Meijer's in
Michigan, would have been to drive completely out of the way.
THERE WAS NO STOP AT MEIJER'S
Bill Brown gave the police a story that didn't add up. Yet, instead of tell Bill Brown to "get lost" because his story didn't match the facts, the authorities hid evidence and helped Bill Brown rewrite his story to make everything fit. Then those same prosecutors gave Bill Brown a one year sweetheart deal and framed me for a murder that never happened.
I've shown you proof that they hid evidence. I've shown you proof that they helped rewrite the story. You can not believe anything they say. I deserve a new trial.
THERE WAS NO STOP AT MEIJER'S
Bill Brown gave the police a story that didn't add up. Yet, instead of tell Bill Brown to "get lost" because his story didn't match the facts, the authorities hid evidence and helped Bill Brown rewrite his story to make everything fit. Then those same prosecutors gave Bill Brown a one year sweetheart deal and framed me for a murder that never happened.
I've shown you proof that they hid evidence. I've shown you proof that they helped rewrite the story. You can not believe anything they say. I deserve a new trial.
