“evidence supporting the theory that the victim had not been killed until 1:30 a.m., at the earliest, precludes alley (who was accounted for from 12:10 a.m. on) from being the killer…”

so why is the state of tennessee still trying so hard to execute sedley alley next wednesday morning? because this evidence was never disclosed to alley or his lawyers at trial…

that’s right, withholding exculpatory evidence from defense counsel … or, prosecutorial misconduct …

according to the columbia school of law study, A Broken System: Error Rates in Capital Cases, 1973-1995, the second most common reason for death sentences being overturned on appeal is police or prosecutors who did discover that kind of evidence (missed important evidence that the defendant was innocent or did not deserve to die) but suppressed it, again keeping it from the jury…

and as tcask notes, this describes exactly the situation with sedley alley and the tragic death of suzanne marie collins…

On the night of July 11, 1985, Lance Corporal Suzanne Collins was abducted while jogging on the naval base in Millington, Tennessee. At 6:30 a.m. the following morning, her body was found at Edmund Orgill Park in Millington. Ms. Collins had been beaten and sexually assaulted with a stick. Eyewitnesses to the abduction described the attacker as 5’8″ with short, dark hair and a dark complexion, wearing black shorts and driving a wood-paneled station wagon. Shortly after the abduction, at 12:10 a.m. on July 12, Sedley Alley, whose wife worked on the naval base, was pulled over by the police because he was driving a car that fit the eyewitness description. The police located his wife and brought them both in for questioning. The police determined that the eyewitnesses had simply observed a domestic dispute, and at approximately 1:00 a.m. Alley and his wife were allowed to leave. Radio logs in evidence establish that Alley and his wife were seen talking on the front porch of their house at 1:27 a.m.. There is no evidence to suggest that Alley ever left the house after that time.

The Shelby County Medical Examiner examined Ms. Collins’ body at 9:30 a.m., and concluded that Ms. Collins had been dead for approximately 6 to 8 hours. Thus, the time of death was between 1:30 and 3:30 a.m.. The Medical Examiner later modified his assessment, telling a law enforcement officer that Ms. Collins had been dead for closer to six hours, making the time of death 3:30 a.m.. The State’s theory had always been that Alley killed Ms. Collins prior to being picked up by the police at 12:10 a.m.. Evidence supporting the theory that the victim had not been killed until 1:30 a.m., at the earliest, precludes Alley (who was accounted for from 12:10 a.m. on) from being the killer. Yet this evidence was never disclosed to Alley or his lawyers at trial…

as you may well know there is untested dna evidence that is crucial to unraveling the truth of suzanne collins murder…

the withheld evidence and untested dna evidence reminds us that alley’s case bears the hallmarks of many dna exonerations throughout the country…

tennessee’s death penalty system, like so many others, is deeply flawed and broken and sedley alleys’ case bears more proof as to why we need a moratorium on excecutions and a thorough study study revealing all of the ways in which the system fails all of us, murder victims’ included, in tennessee…

peace out – <3

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