Renate Janka and a Painful Journey as Debra Milke's Mother
http://www.crimefilenews.com/2013/09/renate-janka-and-painful-journey-as.html (Archiv-Version vom 10.09.2014)
How to Help
Simple Things Anyone Can Do To Help Exonerate Innocent People and Prevent Wrongful Convictions
http://www.innocencenetwork.org/how-to-help (Archiv-Version vom 11.10.2013)
"Debra Milke was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in 1991 in Arizona for the murder of her four-year-old son. Debra is a victim of police negligence and corruption. The only evidence against her was a detective's claim that she provided a non-recorded verbal confession. Debra Milke is innocent.
On this week's show we will be discussing the Debra Milke case with wrongful conviction advocate Luca Cheli."http://www.blogtalkradio.com/injustice-anywhere/2013/09/25/debra-milke-awaits-new-trial-after-22-years-on-death-row
Debra Jean Milke – A confession made of the substance dreams are made on
http://groundreport.com/debra-jean-milke-a-confession-made-of-the-substance-dreams-are-made-on/
.....her (Debras ) case as Eldon’s leaves one to wonder how an allegedly ethical and skilled prosecutor could depend solely upon the shallow accusations of others, with the questionable testimony used in Debra’s trial certainly leaving doubt as to her guilt.
Not surprisingly, Saldate was the main witnesses in Debra case and at trial related the details of a confession that Debra allegedly made to him. In fact, according to Saldate, Debra admitted to having the two co-defendants murder her four year old son to gain five thousand dollars in life insurance. However, there was not a shred of evidence that is above reproof including the confession that came from a completely paraphrased report with the interrogation not recorded, witnessed or signed, despite Saldate’s superiors instructing him to record her interrogation.
Even a life insurance policy Levy asserted provided the motive for murder was provided by Debra’s place of employment which was by chance an insurance company. Levy’s target was not a crazed drug addict who took out a policy on her child looking to collect the cash. She was a working mother whose job provided a small burial policy that Noel Levy somehow convinced a jury would provide enough after the expense of a funeral and paying two killers to induce Debra to have her child slain. However, when one looks closer, the case seems a vile joke perpetrated against a grieving parent.
To begin, detectives and Levy enflamed the city and even Debra’s family members to build a weak circumstantial case that skirted by in court. At first glance, with one expecting to find solid proof of guilt, it actually seems details that imply guilt would have to be omitted from the website established for Debra. However, a closer look at the material available on the internet reveals that not only is the site accurate, but detectives and Levy did to Debra what was done to others. Levy needed no actual evidence, with no investigation ever done beyond looking for just enough to provide conviction against the child's mother. Solely focused on Debra's prosecution, the evidence was designed to fit.
It is already an established fact that Levy and Phoenix detectives had no qualms concerning fabricating evidence, when the lack of the bothersome detail got in their way. They used the ploy against Ray Krone, and David Hyde, and it appears several others. Debra’s family is not hiding the truth, the evidence simply did not exist, though Levy managed to create a good enough show to convict...
....Debra’s family members and friends were actually given details of the crime and investigation that did not exist, with the emotional state caused by the fabrications and prompting used to lead them into believing that they did not know Debra at all and to turn them against her. Saldate claimed that there was indisputable proof Debra was a monster, in order to reach the prosecution’s goal, and a family was cruelly torn apart by his game. As a result, one of those misinformed was Debra’s father who later died expressing his sorrow for having ever believed Saldate over his child....
...Saldate was ruthless, immediately plunging into an interrogation and using his tactics of intimidation. Even as the hysterical mother was trying to grasp the reality of her son's death, he was sitting within a breath's distance and bent to the height of the smaller frame before him, as trying to force the hysterical mother to submit to his commands. Then, after thirty minutes and before the media had abandoned him, he suddenly declared he had a confession in order to provide the grounds for arrest.
The way that meeting came about, and then the way that it was handled, confirms that Saldate went into things with the predetermined plan to convict Debra and raises many questions as to the credibility of his report of a confession and the rest of his investigation as well. It actually adds credence to Debra’s denial of any involvement in the murder, including that though other detectives from Phoenix who were capable of doing the interview were at the station long before Saldate, for some reason they were ordered by Saldate not to speak to Debra concerning the case. She was instead left anxious for news and waiting for the arrival of the only officer to ever be able to relate that there was enough evidence to convict her....
Sandy ( Debras sister )has even revealed that she attempted to testify truthfully, only to find herself facing the twisted version of her statement that Saldate had provided to Levy in one of his infamous paraphrased reports. The sister, who was not only misled regarding Debra's culpability in the crime, also faced the threat of being thrown in jail if she failed to testify, though she was pregnant, very near to delivery and ill. She reports that the harassment of her was so bad that she insisted her doctor induce labor early to allow her to be able to make the trip from Wyoming to Phoenix a week after the baby was born. She feared that they would indeed incarcerate her if she failed to be in court. Saldate had even forced her to give an interview just before trial despite the stress to her and her unborn child, and though his questions were not what one would expect. Rather, according to Sandy’s statement to attorneys, he asked no questions concerning the actual facts of the case. He was merely digging for dirt to use against Debra in Levy's smear campaign.
To make matters worse the details she provided were presented to the court in the way that Saldate interpreted them in yet another of his paraphrased reports, though they still did not reflect the sordid story that Levy wished to present. So, Sandy found herself facing a prosecutor who broadsided her with completely unfamiliar questions and expected her to respond despite his embellishing upon the facts available to him. She was to discover that Saldate’s twisting her statements was not the end of the duos trickery, as Levy managed to further distort her statements, and also cut her answers short to prevent her having the opportunity to correct the false impressions the jury was being left with. Too late she seems to have came to understand the tactics that Levy uses to gain conviction. Sandy helped to condemn her sister to death, though she was to come to deeply regret having doubted her, when faced with the actual truth of the case rather than the distortions and falsehoods of hard evidence that Saldate had initially presented to her.
http://arizonadeathpenltyinjustice.webs.com/debramilke.htm (Archiv-Version vom 24.06.2013)
Steve Drizin, one of the world’s leading experts on wrongful convictions and false confessions, writes:Es freut mich ausserordentlich, dass ich mittlerweile immer mehr Menschen lese, die an Debbies Unschuld glauben und sich auch für sie einsetzen.
I love the unexpected e-mail or phone message announcing a win in a wrongful conviction case. Such e-mails are rare, but even rarer in a capital case. I received such an e-mail today in the case of Debra Milke, an Arizona woman on death row for more than two decades for allegedly hiring two men to murder her son. I’ve always had my doubts about Milke’s guilt but I’ve never doubted that she was interrogated by a “bad cop” by the name of Saldate.
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"It’s hard to do justice to Judge Kozinski’s opinion which not only takes Saldate to task but takes his supervisors and prosecutors to task for continuing to let him interrogate suspects and build cases with confessions after his misconduct came to light.
Congratulations again to the lawyers and to Ms. Milke. After such disappointment, today is a day they can relish at least until they have to get back to work to prevent a higher court from snatching away their victory. The Center on Wrongful Convictions has been proud to play a small role in this effort. We filed an amicus brief in this case in 2007. Much of Judge Kozinski’s opinion – especially his defense of recording and his lack of faith in factual findings based on unrecorded interrogations (at least in a case with Saldate) – tracks arguments we made in the amicus brief. My colleague Laura Nirider, then “only” a law student, co-wrote the brief with me."
Steve Drizin, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University School of Law
http://www.falseconfessions.org/blog/author/admin/ (Archiv-Version vom 09.11.2015)
Das finde ich auch skandalös!!!!justicia schrieb:Das ist unglaublich!!!!! Da wird eine Aufnahme am Gericht und Verteidigung vorbei geschmuggelt und der Jury gegeben! Befindet sich Phoenix in Nord Korea? Das kennt man ja nur von totalitäre Systeme!
Wurde dieser "Beweis" auch von Koszinki thematisiert?
