Category Archives: No-Crime-Other
John Kinsel
A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals appeared sympathetic to Kinsel but said in an opinion released Tuesday that it could do nothing.
“It is beyond regrettable that a possibly innocent man will not receive a new trial in the face of the preposterously unreliable testimony of the victim and sole eyewitness to the crime for which he was convicted,” Judge Jacques Wiener wrote for the panel comprising himself and Judges Priscilla Owen and Jerry Smith.
“But, our hands are tied by the (Anti-Terrorism Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996), preventing our review of Kinsel’s attack on his Louisiana postconviction proceedings, so we dutifully dismiss his claim,” Wiener wrote.
From http://www.nola.com/…/07/federal_appeals_court_calls_te.html
Additional discussion ( re AEDPA, Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 )
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Courtney Bisbee
In 2004, Courtney Bisbee, was falsely accused by one teenager, of an alleged sexual “touching” incident while in a room of teenagers. The crime never happened. The story was made up by her teenage accuser’s mom in a scheme to sue a school district for money. Her own son, and the prosecution’s star witness, would sign a sworn affidavit admitting his mother forced him to lie about this.
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Article Courtney Bisbee Case – Redux (Sentencing) Oct 3 2015, at The Wrongful Convictions Blog, Part 2
News
20 November 2015 : Evidentiary hearing granted
Wrongly Convicted Group Website 