Former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw’s emotional breakdown went viral one year ago this week in the worst way possible. He became a national punching bag when a jury convicted him on 18 of 36 counts of sexual assault-related crimes against eight black women. His sentence: 263 years.
But what if he didn’t do it — any of it?..
Prosecutors failed to present a single, corroborating witness or a single piece of direct forensic evidence proving Holtzclaw committed any of the 36 alleged assaults allegedly perpetrated at 17 different crime scenes.
Holtzclaw never once asked for a lawyer during a two-hour interrogation by sex-crimes detectives — which came just 12 hours after he allegedly forced a 57-year-old woman to perform oral sex on him during his last overnight shift on June 18, 2014. In fact, Holtzclaw was completely forthcoming and consistent in his description of the 15-minute traffic stop involving northeast OKC resident and star accuser Jannie Ligons. He readily agreed to take a lie detector test “anytime,” voluntarily submitted to a buccal swab, handed over his uniform for DNA analysis, and signed a waiver allowing detectives to search his home, computers and phone.
“I want everything” done, Holtzclaw told detectives — even when they falsely claimed to have incriminating video that “doesn’t look really good” and purportedly showed “a whole lot of action being performed…”
A sexual assault nurse examiner test… came up empty for Holtzclaw’s DNA…
The forensic evidence backed up Holtzclaw, not Ligons.
She claimed Holtzclaw forced her to put her hands on the hood of his car during the stop. She also alleged that he put his hands on the roof while purportedly assaulting her as she sat in the backseat as he stood on the rear passenger side with the door open. Extensive fingerprint and DNA tests all over Holtzclaw’s vehicle — again, just hours after the alleged assault — also came up empty…
Now, 12 of 13 accusers (including four on whose charges Holtzclaw was acquitted) are suing for monetary damages. The litigation circus is being led by Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown family lawyer, Benjamin Crump.
Those women included:
–Convicted felon Sherry Ellis, who testified under oath at a preliminary hearing that her attacker was “black” and short (Holtzclaw is light-skinned and 6’1″ tall), and who could not identify that attacker as Holtzclaw while he sat in the courtroom.
–Convicted felon Tabitha Barnes, who described Holtzclaw as “dark-skinned” and had not reported any inappropriate behavior — until a sex-crimes detective informed her about the Holtzclaw investigation, supplied her with a date and she changed her story. Barnes testified positive for PCP on the morning she testified at trial. She had also ingested hydrocodone and marijuana.
–Carla Raines, who denied seven times she had been the victim of any inappropriate police conduct — until a sex-crimes detective informed her about the Holtzclaw investigation and she changed her story to claim that he had forced her to expose her breasts.
–Convicted felon Terri Morris, a drug addict diagnosed as a “paranoid schizophrenic with depressive features” who couldn’t pick out Holtzclaw from a line-up and described him as having skin with a “dark color,” either “Indian” or “Irish” or maybe “white” and in his “thirties, forties, I don’t know, fifties.” She also misidentified Holtzclaw’s patrol car, told the investigators to “leave me alone,” and called their questions “bulls—.”
–Convicted felon Shardayreon Hill, who had been rushed to the hospital in December 2013 at the behest of Holtzclaw and his assisting officers after she crushed a vial of PCP in her mouth and spilled more PCP on her skin. Hill called police in September 2014 alleging Holtzclaw had sexually assaulted her — only after the Ligons allegations went public and only after she faced felony charges for destroying evidence and intent to distribute PCP…
“Daniel in the Den: The Truth About the Holtzclaw Case,” a two-part series, airs exclusively on CRTV.com’s new program, “Michelle Malkin Investigates,” beginning Dec. 5.
So Malkin will have this on today on CRTV.com . Lots of evidence at the link.
The cop’s initial reaction has a disturbing feeling of a guy who did nothing wrong, and wanted to get the investigation out of the way as quickly as possible. The whole article feels like the Rolling Stone case, with the added bonus of a suite of female drug addicts being told they could sue for millions if they just said the cop that arrested them months back sexually assaulted them.
Everyone needs to grasp that the Virginia State/Rolling Stone phenomenon is not limited to merely being a silly online story that will reflect badly on you in google searches. If you get accused in some SJW witchhunt, you may very well need a lawyer pronto, and you need to not deal with investigators without one.
I am not clear that would have helped in this situation. However if the DNA was innocent transfer, and he had taken his uniform home and laundered it immediately, perhaps it might have been removed, thereby removing the only thing the prosecutors could argue might have indicated he had any physical contact with the one victim.
In these times, when science is malleable, and rabbits are all neurotically unbalanced, being innocent is no defense. Even worse, as the collapse approaches, and shadowy state security agencies close in at the bidding of partisan political hacks placed by the opposition, there may be a lot of Alt-right figures who suddenly find they are accused of crimes, which conveniently are loaded with fingerprints, DNA, and all sorts of other evidence.
Lawyer up the moment you contact the machine, and fight it at every step, because one day it may have nothing to do with your innocence, and everything to do with a system in decay.
Tell someone new about r/K Selection, because the insanity can cost good men their freedom
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WHERE is the Innocence Project now?!?!
When accused, immediately start total warfare: Lawyer. no collaboration with investigators.