>"Darryl L. Pierce,,," wrote:
>
>Nexis wrote:
>
>>> > He asked where to find the information. I told him.
>>>
>>> I was actually asking for support for the assertion that Smith confessed,
>>> since that's what I was told. Nancy said that he confessed, implying that
>>> it was to the police. I asked for support for this since she said it
>>> previously, but I had not seen any such statement made anywhere
>>> concerning the case. The link you gave shows that her statement is false,
>>> he did not confess and instead another inmate came forward and said where
>>> the body
>> was
>>> located and said he got that information from Smith. That's not a
>>> confession, that's hearsay.
>>
>> He confessed. Regardless of who it was to, he made the statement.
>
>No, he didn't. A confession is an admission to the police that he did
>something. It's corroborated by either videotape of the confession or a
>signature on a transcript of the confession. Neither of those is the case
>here. An inmate has claimed Smith confessed *to him* that he did it and
>where the body's located, but there's nothing to corroborate it that has
>been identified by the authorities. It's purely hearsay at this point.
>
>And, here's the twist: what if the person who claims Smith confessed to him
>is the one who *did* do the crime and is trying to use this claim to
>further pin the blame on Smith? Not impossible, though I doubt that's the
>case here. The point is, what you have is *not* a confession. It's
>hearsay...

Perhaps beyond hearsay, a total fabrication... undercover cops have been
planted as cell mates before doncha know, never heard any confession but easy
enough to say they did. Anyway, a jailhouse confession is not worth anything
and in fact will almost always taint the cop's case.. when jailhouse
confessions are leaked it means there isn't better evidence, which definitely
implys an extremely weak evidentiary case. It's been admitted the video has
undergone major fiddling (by NASA no less), may as well toss that into the
trash. And the cops have been known to fudge all manner of evidence, especially
samplings for DNA testing. In the case at hand at this point the evidence
points to the guiltiest party being the poor kid's unfit imbecile parents.


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