"The original trial, where Milke convicted and sentence to death, was - according to Judge Kozinski - ‘essentially a swearing context between Milke and Phoenix Police Detective Armando Saldate, Jr.’ Judge Mroz reiterated the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals’s findings in March and noted that ‘serious doubts on the validity of the Defendant’s alleged confession.’ There was no physical evidence connecting Milke to the crime and no corroborating testimony. The State’s case depended entirely on a confession extracted by Detective Armando Saldate, Jr. Both men ( Styers and Scott), he said, have the added incentive of having their death penalties reduced to life sentences if they turn State witnesses. Yet both continue to maintain Milke’s innocence." dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2413102/Debra-Milke-set-released-spending-23-years-Death-Row-murder-son.html#ixzz2gYg8hqu0
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 21:18:21 +0000
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