[Forgotten Amendments]

This is the most blatant, sickening frame-up I've ever heard of. Not only did they hide the evidence that corroborated his alibi, the grand jury threatened his witness with taking her kids if she told the truth. So, she lied and put him on death row:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/17/transcript-reveals-shocking-grand-jury-intimidation-of-witness/

People should go to prison for this. In effect, it's attempted murder.

And of course - the real cop killer got away.

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[wastedyears]

The Harris County District Attorney's Office found the phone records during a post-conviction review of the case last year. They were in the garage of a homicide detective.

"Protect and serve," huh?

[editor-surveyor]

For all those that want to move to Texas!

[coloradan]

I would support sentencing those who frame others with the same maximum sentence the framee would face if convicted of the false charges. Which just happens to be the death penalty in this particular case.

[fortheDeclaration]

How do we know it was him who was on the phone?

And who was he talking to?

It seems that it wouldn't have taken much for the Defense attorney to get phone records.

[SeaHawkFan]

It is crap like this that forces me to lean heavily against the death penalty.

At least in Texas, exonerated individuals get $80,000 for every year in prison.

[UCANSEE2]

Where is the Trayvon Martin/Mike Brown crowd when it comes to cases like this ?

[VerySadAmerican]

The detective should get the death penalty. He tried to get someone executed. That should be at least life in prison.

And I would be other cops knew about it. But that thin blue line is never crossed. That’s why I have no respect for cops. They’re all on power trips.

I was watching The First 48 a few years ago about a murder in Memphis. This cop honed in on this kid and was convinced he was the killer. Then evidence exonerated him. The cop kept saying “Man, I was wrong. I’m going to have to be more open minded in the future.” I thought “Yeah, and if the cameras weren’t on your corrupt ass that kid would be on death row by now.”

[Altariel]

Why is being a “cop killer” worse than being a Stay-at-home-mom killer, a teacher killer, an engineer-killer, a woman-killer, a man-killer, a doctor-killer.

Murder is murder-—enough of this peasant-murdering-knight-equals-outrage while knight-murdering-peasant-equals-meh nonsense.

Those who framed that poor soul should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and put on death row themselves.

Our would-be-overlords would be less likely to engage in this behavior if they had immediate criminal consequences for their criminal activity.