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Re: Destruction of notes and data
Posted by:
Jim Mazerat (IP Logged)
Date: February 18, 2007 03:59PM
She was not the original Judge making the ruling. All she did was agree with a judge that was forces to recuse himself because of conflicts of interest. The same review was not conducted on the other defendant’s motion for the production of the notes. The agent notes were supplied to those defendants.
As I put in another post A comparison with another defendant in the Cascade 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.
This may be good support for what John and Pat are saying.