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Judge ordered the removal of a YouTube video produced by a 13-year-old boy that exposes the sexual and physical abuse that he and his brother endured while in CPS foster care

 
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Judge ordered the removal of a YouTube video produced by a 13-year-old boy that exposes the sexual and physical abuse that he and his brother endured while in CPS foster care



Perhaps the judge in question doesn't understand the Bill of Rights? Freedom of speech to criticize one's government is enshrined as the most holy of all protected speech in the land. The judge has no legal standing to have the video removed. Furthermore, it would appear the judge doesn't understand how the internet works. He can't stop the signal!
 
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"It's better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one." - Volaire

What exactly is the point of our prison system? Is it to protect the public from dangerous people or to promote reform in people who have broken the law?
 

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Witness In Glossip Appeal Arrested In Rogers County
Sep 23, 2015

OKLAHOMA CITY -
Attorneys for Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip are livid claiming prosecutors are intimidating their witnesses. This comes after Rogers County deputies arrest a man who came forward in saying he overheard in prison that Glossip was set up.

Defense attorneys say Michael Scott was arrested by deputies with guns drawn Tuesday afternoon after a warrant was issued that same day over a $200 dollar unpaid fine and failure to complete community service related to a recent DUI arrest.

Scott became a key player in the Richard Glossip case after he contacted defense attorneys saying he overheard Justin Sneed bragging in prison that he set Glossip up. Sneed killed Barry Van Treese but testified Glossip was the mastermind behind the murder.~

A second man has also come forward in the past week saying he shared a cell with Justin Sneed and Sneed also indicated to him he alone committed the murder. In the court filing that man says after he told DA Prater he wouldn't talk to him a warrant was also issued for his arrest.

http://www.news9.com/story/30102023/witness-in-glossip-appeal-arrested-in-rogers-county
 

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Oklahoma Appeals Court Says Glossip's Execution Can Proceed

OKLAHOMA CITY — Sep 28, 2015,

Oklahoma's highest criminal court on Monday narrowly denied a death row inmate's last-minute request for a new hearing and ordered that his execution can proceed, despite his claims that he is innocent.

In a 3-2 decision, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals denied Richard Glossip's request for an evidentiary hearing and an emergency stay of execution. The court ruled the state can move forward with giving Glossip a lethal injection Wednesday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester. ~

In a dissenting opinion, Presiding Judge Clancy Smith wrote that the court should grant a 60-day stay of execution and hold an evidentiary hearing.

"While finality of judgment is important, the state has no interest in executing an actually innocent man," Smith wrote. "An evidentiary hearing will give Glossip the chance to prove his allegations that Sneed has recanted, or demonstrate to the court that he cannot provide evidence that would exonerate him."

Judge Arlene Johnson also dissented separately, writing that she thought Glossip's original trial was "deeply flawed" and that an evidentiary hearing should be ordered.
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/oklahoma-appeals-court-glossips-execution-proceed-34109486
 

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Is Oklahoma About to Execute an Innocent Man?

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Glossip was offered a plea deal before his retrial, but he rejected it, insisting that he was innocent. He was convicted and sentenced to death at his second trial in 2004. Once again, his attorneys failed to show video of Sneed's confession to jurors, though that was one of the reasons he won his appeal. The Intercept reports that they would have seen Detective Bob Bemo coach Sneed into implicating Glossip:

Sneed's story has continued to evolve. A year ago his adult daughter, O'Ryan Justine Sneed, wrote a letter to the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board saying she believes her father lied about Glossip's involvement in the murder to avoid the death penalty.

"For a couple of years now, my father has been talking to me about recanting his original testimony," she said. "I'm sure if he felt safe that he would not lose his plea agreement, he would give new and truthful testimony, much different from his testimony 17 years ago. He has asked me several times to look into what the legal ramifications would be to his own case if he recanted."

nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/09/oklahoma-about-to-execute-an-innocent-man.html
 

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