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Re: Destruction of notes and data
Posted by:
Jim Mazerat (IP Logged)
Date: February 18, 2007 03:50PM
Terry
I do not believe it was the trial judge that reviewed the notes, report, and electronic surveillance information. I believe this was a sitting judge in another district. Where it stated Brown was convicted on 7 counts of lying to a federal agent, if I am not mistaking 6 of the guilty charge were later reversed to not guilty.
It is important to look at the whole case to determine what to place any why to this day there are questions about the judge’s ruling. A comparison with another defendant in the same case, Ron Weems, shows what a great disadvantage Jim Brown had at the trial. Co-defendant Ron Weems was given the notes of his interview with Harry Burton. Weems used these notes effectively in cross-examining Burton, and the notes were significantly different than what Burton typed up in his final report. The notes were a great help to Weems, and certainly would have been of even greater help to Jim Brown. There is overwhelming agreement by any neutral party who has looked at the notes and reviewed Burton’s testimony that the handwritten notes of Burton would have set Jim Brown free.