Page 11 - The Certified Forensic Death Investigator - AFI-LLC Newsletter March 2021

Certified Forensic Death Investigator Program - AFI-LLC Newsletter March 2021

3 Detectives Obtained a False Murder Confession. Was It One of Dozens?
What happened next in the interrogation room would reverberate in powerful ways over the coming decades. A false
confession. An innocent man imprisoned for nearly 20 years. Serious questions about the tactics used by the three
detectives involved in the investigation into Ms. Burton’s killing — and many others.
-- continued at www.nytimes.com/2021/02/15/nyregion/3-detectives-obtained-a-false-murder-confession-was-it-one-of-
dozens.html

Colorado's New Rule Governing Access to Judicial Records in Criminal Cases 'A Tremendous Leap Forward'
(Colorado Freedom of Information Coalition - COFIC)
The indisputably terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year 2020 ended with at least one bright spot in Colorado:
12/17/2020, the state Supreme Court formally adopted a new Rule of Criminal Procedure (CRCP 55.1) sets both
procedural and substantive standards for when a trial judge may “suppress” judicial records on file in criminal cases.
-- continued at https://coloradofoic.org/zansberg-colorados-new-rule-governing-public-access-to-judicial-records-in-
criminal-cases-a-tremendous-leap-forward

Union Leaders Put on Trial for Assassination
(This Day in History – The History Channel – 02/17/1906)
This story has it all – assassination, corrupt politicians, corrupt judiciary, corrupt PIs, kidnapping, and the first
internationally famous trial and acquittal by Clarence Darrow.
Union leaders Bill Hayward, Charles Moyer and George Pettibone are taken into custody by Idaho authorities and the
Pinkerton Detective Agency. Idaho called in the Pinkerton Agency’s James McParland. Through a combination of trickery
and intimidation, McParland got Hogan to confess. The men were in Colorado, where local authorities were friendly to
the unions and would not extradite them based on the confession of a murderer. Government officials in Idaho,
including the current governor and chief justice, sanctioned a plan to kidnap Hayward, Moyer, and Pettibone so that
they could be put on trial in Idaho. Clarence Darrow was brought in to defend the first “Trial of the Century”. At
Hayward’s trial, Darrow made an impassioned 11-hour closing argument, and the jury acquitted. Hayward later fled the
country to Russia, where he died and was buried at the Kremlin in 1928.
PS – Clarence Darrow was a supporter of Horace Greeley for president, the namesake of our hometown, Greeley CO, and
his son Paul lived in Greeley – where Clarence and his wife visited from time to time.
-- continued at www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-first-trial-of-the-century

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