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331. Judicial indiscretion

By Joel Jacobsen

In Delaware, it's pretty big news that the state Supreme Court upheld the murder conviction of Michael Jones.  Shortly after a warrant was issued for Jones' arrest for homicide, he got into a car with a couple friends, one of them named Cedric Reinford:While the three were in Reinford’s car, Jones killed Reinford by shooting him three times in the head. Page and Jones then dowsed Reinford and his car with gasoline and set it on fire. Afterwards, they went to Reinford’s house to steal drug money from a safe in Reinford’s home. There, Jones shot and killed Reinford’s fiancée, Maneeka Plant, and shot Reinford’s brother, Muhammad, in the face.  Muhammad miraculously survived and called 911 ...You can see at once, can't you, why Professor Miller over at Evidence Prof Blog thinks it's such a shame that Jones' conviction was upheld? (That's an unfair, nasty, cheap shot, of course: all professors think their subject is more important than the lives of people they don't know...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on December 14, 2007 (boomark / email).