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339. Intellectual dishonesty epic (pt. 3)

By Joel Jacobsen

Caminito, Bonino and Noia all confessed to murdering Murray Hameroff.  They were tried together, and the jury found their confessions voluntary.  Noia chose not to appeal.  But after 14 years, Caminito got a federal judge to vacate his conviction, based on the judge's finding that the police acted "satanically" by questioning him "almost continuously" for 27 hours, leaving him alone in an unheated cell for 7 of them.  (See post 338.)That last bit sounds like I'm being sarcastic, doesn't it?  Check it out: 222 F.2d at 699-701.  Caminito testified that he and Noia got together in the cells (this must have been during the "almost" rather than the "continuously" part) and agreed on a story to tell the cops...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on January 25, 2008 (boomark / email).