Posted on 09/17/2012 9:08:09 AM PDT by Bratch
So, how was the public convinced that MacDonald was guilty despite all of these “reasonable doubts”?
Enter my old neighbor Joe McGinniss.
MacDonald signed a contract giving McGinniss exclusive rights to his life story, and so McGinniss was given unprecedented access to the defense team – living with them, working with them, eating with them. But when the guilty verdict came down, McGinniss did a one-eighty on them. Apparently, falsely convicted men don’t make for good books. McGinniss decided it was a better story to agree with the jury. MacDonald wasn’t a sympathetic figure. He did himself no favors with some media appearances. So, McGinniss went about writing a book that would convince people the government got the right verdict and we could all pat ourselves on the back and leave Jeffrey MacDonald to rot in his jail cell till Judgment Day.
McGinniss’ book actually embellished the prosecution’s case – even supplying a motive. According to McGinniss’ theory of the case, MacDonald secretly wanted to break free of his wife and kids and so he murdered them one night in a fit of rage induced by some diet pills he was taking. (Oddly enough, the millions of other people who were also taking those same diet pills somehow avoided murdering their families.)
Morris’ final description of McGinniss is apt: “a craven and sloppy journalist who confabulated, lied, and betrayed while ostensibly telling a story about a man who confabulated, lied, and betrayed.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Hey I’m a huge fan of Gov Palin and McGinnis is clearly a pinko moron,but McDonald is a viscous murderer.His wife and children were torn to shreds with knives and clubs but his wounds were only superficial and were made in front of the bathroom mirror where they found his blood on the sink ,as if he were standing there stabbing himself with an icepick.THis guy is OJ with a Green Beret
Erroll Morris, a filmmaker who was responsible for freeing a wrongly convicted man in Texas, has written a book about MacDonald. That’s what prompted Sarah’s editorial.
I read not only Fatal Vision (McGinnis’ book), but also, several other accounts of the murder, trial and conviction. Even without DNA, there was plenty of evidence to convict MacDonald.
Just as long as Palin and her insights make you twist and squirm and equivocate, she's OK in my book.
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N'kay?
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Mcginnis I think has written other books that had him believing the accused was innocent at the onset.
Blind Faith and Fatal Vision basically retell the trial and what the jury found. I’m failing to see why Palin is getting in the middle of this, but more so why is McGinnis in Palin’s face?
MacDonald is guilty, but he did not get a fair trial. The Judge and Prosecutors railroaded him.
Edwin Wilson was convicted by a federaljury, too.
Was he guilty?
I thought she was going to sue him...what happened to that?
And maybe someday MacDonald will be convicted of a crime he didn't commit, too. Assuming that they ever let him out of jail on the ones he did do, of course.
I refuse to stand up fort McDonald, but you go ahead and do so if you like.
She totally nails McGuinniss with excerpts from his own diary. His theory of motive is nothing more than projection. Like all libs, they accuse others of what they are actually doing or want to do.
I was not standing up for McDonald; I was asking if you think someone is guilty just because he was convicted by a jury.
I will ask you this. Can you think of anything better than a jury? The evidence was overwhelming. They convicted even after McDonnell had many free years.
He got off light. Nobody has ever proved anyone else is responsible for these murders.
“and the point is that the ONLY case of ‘diet pill rage’ was McDonald’s and that thousands of other users of diet pills never experienced any similar symptoms...”
Where exactly did you pull that “fact” from? At that time, “diet pills” were basically various forms of amphetamines, aka “speed”. There were a great many adverse side effects, complications, and addictions caused by those “diet pills”, which is why most of them are illegal now.
Wiseass! LOL
The Manson “family” looked like hippies too.
Yes I can; an honest prosecutor and an honest judge, which is why we have juries. ;-)
Palin was pretty careful to qualify her article. She’s not carrying a torch for McDonald here, but rather reviewing the Morris book. Morris takes after McGinniss hammer and tongs and Palin piles on.
The case is going to court and the evidence which was kept out of the original trial will be allowed in.
Best,
Chris
Palin takes a swipe at McGinniss? Why didn’t she follow through on her law suit for his ‘lies’ about her in his book?
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