Harris will have to address

rmrd0000 — Fri, 11 Oct 2019 03:30:18 +0000

In reply to Kamala Harris' Prosecutors Sent This Innocent Man to Prison for Murder. Now He's Talking

Harris will have to address her record. Kevin Cooper was convicted of murder when she was DA in SF.. Harris delayed Cooper's ability to get DNA testing that could prove him innocent. She only changed her position after she was elected Senator, and then after the case had been reported in the NYT.

https://theappeal.org/spotlight-kevin-cooper-case-exemplifies-decades-of-systemic-failures/

The initial testing allowed by then Governor Jerry Brown was incomplete. The rest of the testing was approved by current the current Governor. The results are pending.

From the above article

The system was not done exposing its worst in Cooper’s case. New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof wrote an exhaustive and devastating column detailing the evidence indicating that Cooper was framed by law enforcement for the murders. “In 1983, four people were murdered in a home in Chino Hills, California,” he begins. “The sole survivor of the attack said three white intruders had committed the murders. Then a woman told the police that her boyfriend, a white convicted murderer, was probably involved, and she gave deputies his bloody coveralls. So here’s what sheriff’s deputies did: They threw away the bloody coveralls and arrested a young black man named Kevin Cooper.

As in so many cases, Cooper’s trial was, to put it mildly, racially charged. One man brought a noose around a stuffed gorilla to a hearing. According to Cooper’s current lawyer, “he didn’t have a half-decent defense.” The crime was high profile and law enforcement was under pressure to punish someone. Kristof dispatches with the evidence against Cooper by exposing law enforcement negligence, such as when the district attorney shut down the on-scene investigation “for fear, he said, of gathering so much evidence that defense experts could spin complicated theories.” Kristof also exposes probable lies, like when a deputy suspected of planting evidence claimed not to have entered the room where the evidence was found, but his fingerprints were found there. Various judges have concluded that Cooper was framed. Kristof notes that the bloody coveralls were not the only evidence pointing to a different culprit, but it was all ignored.

Democratic debates are not the forum that will challenge Harris to address her record. Reporters are going to have to repeatedly question her actions. Californians may already be aware of her record. She polls in fourth in her home state.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/Kamala-Harris-far-behind-in-new-California-14487498.php

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