Garbage!
AND EDIT! And whose hair was in the hand of the victim! Occam's Razor would suggest it was the killer. But did anyone sample hair from Adams who they wanted to convict! WHY NOT!?? And why not from Vivien or from the person who swore REVENGE on ADAMS. Why was the FACT of hair not used against Adams?! Why was the evidence illegally hidden until after trial. HA! HA! HA!
Here are some more names:
BALDWIN...1999
BARNES...2000
COLEMAN...1992
DARDEN...1998
DAVIS...1995
DREW...1994
GRAHAM...2000
GRIFFIN...1995
JONES...2000
McFARLAND...1998
ROBERTS...1999
SINGLETON...1992
TAFERO...1990
THOMPSON...1998
WRIGHT...2000
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Back to Adams...if they were not being "executed" just for being black, it was common southern practice to use blacks to solve crime. Most southerners did not consider them people and many still don't.
"was sentenced to death, 7-5, based largely on the fact that he was a career violent criminal"
He was NOT a "career violent criminal". Why make stuff up? He was convicted of stealing a pig in 1976, and he was UNCONDITUTIONALLY convicted of "raping" a white woman in racist Tennesee in 1962 for sex which was claimed to be consensual sex.
"There were several credible eyewitnesses who saw him and his car at the scene"
False again. The witness (Foy Hortman) spoke with a person leaving the house and Foy Hortman viewed lineup and stated "not Adams". Later in the actual trial of this "nigger" as both the derfense and prosecution called him for the all-white jury, Hortman stated "may or may not"!! The person who had Adam's car (Vivien Nickerson) fit many of the characteristics described by the eyewitness (Hortman). At the trial she claimed that Adams arrived AFTER the time of the murder, but the defense did not use this to impeach her testimony (previously she told police that Adams was with her in her house AT the time of the murder! Then there is the hostile witness (and possibly the murderer) who had sworn to get revenge on Adams because he believed his wife was having an affair with the man (I guess she refused to go along with the "rape" gambit).
"James Adams was convicted of capital murder on circumstantial evidence and on evidence that was contradictory. On the morning of the crime, Adams’s car had been seen traveling to and from the victim’s house and had been parked in the victim’s driveway. One witness reported that he thought Adams was driving the car towards the victim’s house shortly before the robbery and assault. A second witness positively identified Adams as the driver of the car seen leaving the victim’s home. This witness reportedly stated that he would testify against Adams because he believed that Adams was having an affair with his wife. However, the only witness to see a person leaving the victim’s house at the approximate time of the crime provided a description that did not fit Adams. After viewing a police line-up in which Adams was included, this witness was "positive" that Adams was not the person with whom he spoke. At trial, the same witness who could not pick Adams out of a lineup testified that Adams may or may not have been the person he saw leaving the house.
Adams said he was at the house of a friend, Vivian Nickerson, from 10:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. on the day of the murder. Nickerson initially confirmed Adams’s alibi and stated that she had borrowed Adams’s car before 10:30 a.m. At trial, she changed her testimony to say that Adams did not arrive at her house before 11:00 a.m. Adams’s attorney did not question the inconsistency of her statements. Although the state crime lab found that strands of hair on the victim were not from Adams, the crime lab report was not released until three days after the trial.
Race was a factor throughout the trial. During the trial, both the prosecution and the defense referred to Adams as "nigger." The prosecution repeatedly raised Adams’s prior conviction for rape in terms of the race of the victim. The fact that Adams had raped a white woman – not that he had merely committed rape – was the aggravating circumstance used by the state to secure a sentence of death, despite the fact that Adams had never before been convicted of a crime punishable by death." |
