Scott Wippert, Robyn Bramson, and Josh Solberg arrive in court. Ventura County Senior Deputy District Attorney Maeve Fox is bent on punishing fourteen-year-old murder suspect Brandon McInerney - to death. She’s already bypassed any legal scenario where Larry King’s alleged teenage killer might get a fitness hearing to determine whether or not he is amenable to rehabilitation [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Ventura County DA tightens noose around fourteen-year-old Brandon McInerney’s neck
Posted: December 31, 2008 in Brandon McInerney, children, criminal, family, politicsTags: Brandon McInerney, criminal, Josh Solberg, Larry King, life, Maeve Fox, murder, news, politics, Robyn Bramson, Scott Wippert, Summer McKiever, Ventura County
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TYLER’S CORNER: Simple Man
Posted: December 27, 2008 in children, criminal, family, life, Tyler EdmondsTags: Lynyrd Skynyrd, Simple Man, Tyler Edmonds
And listen closely to what I say. And if you do this It will help you some sunny day. Take your time… don’t live too fast, Troubles will come and they will pass. Go find a woman and you’ll find love, And don’t forget son, There is someone up above. And be a simple kind [...]
Another component of wrongful convictions – media bias
Posted: December 23, 2008 in criminal, lifeTags: Dinae Seltzer, Jesse James Hollywood, media bias, Paul Vincent Cortez, wrongful convictions
I’ve received several emails from a concerned woman out there by the name of Diane Seltzer. She is fighting for a worthwhile cause – media bias – particularly as it relates to a young man by the name of Paul Vincent Cortez. I can totally relate to this issue because I felt it so prevalent [...]
TYLER’S CORNER: I am in control of my life
Posted: December 19, 2008 in Stolen BoyTags: family, juveniles, life, news, Tyler Edmonds
Today I realized that I am in control of my life. Sounds crazy and random, but when you have lived a life like mine – that is something that isn’t all that hard to forget. My life has consisted mostly of doing what I’m told. Not because that’s the way I wanted it to be [...]
Can justice be found in New York for Joseph Giacona III?
Posted: December 15, 2008 in Stolen BoyTags: family, fourteen, Innocents Project, Joseph Giacona, justice, juveniles, juvenilesforjustice, life, murder, New York, news, Oneida County, politics
My heart goes out deeply to Joseph Giacona’s mother. She’s the upstate New York woman who has to sit and watch as her son faces the judicial grind of a place that sometimes, seemingly, has no sense of justice. A place where the innocent are convicted regularly, their lives wrongfully spent behind bars. Fourteen-year-old Joseph Giacona [...]
Exclusive interview with Brandon McInerney’s new attorney, Scott Wippert
Posted: December 9, 2008 in children, criminal, life, Stolen BoyTags: Brandon McInerney, children, juveniles, politics, Robyn Bramson, Scott Wippert, United Defense Group, William Quest
The case got going full bore yesterday, with the judge ruling Brandon McInerney competent and mature enough to stand trial in adult court. New dates were set in the case and an important discovery motion will be argued on December 29th, with a prelim date set for January 26th of 2009. After court, I had [...]
Breaking news: Brandon McInerney attacks District Attorney’s “Failure to Exercise its Filing Discretion”
Posted: December 8, 2008 in Brandon McInerney, Stolen BoyTags: adult, Brandon McInerney, family, juveniles, life, Maeve Fox, news, politics, prison, Scott Wippert, United Defense Group
Things are starting to heat up in a very interesting manner in the Brandon McInerney case. Brandon’s new attorneys, Scott Wippert of the United Defense Group, and Robin Bramson, have just filed a defense motion for discovery, which in great part attacks the Ventura County District Attorney’s “Failure to Exercise its Filing Discretion.” If the [...]
Exclusive interview with Tyler Edmonds
Posted: December 6, 2008 in children, criminal, family, life, politics, Tyler EdmondsTags: family, justice, juveniles, life, life sentence, Mississippi, politics, Tyler Edmonds
Tyler Edmonds is the soft-spoken kid from Mississippi who once gave a false confession to police in a murder case in an effort to protect his sister, but ended up getting a life sentence in an adult prison for himself, at the age of 13. After winning the right to a new trial and a subsequent acquittal, he [...]
New York’s strange case of then 13-year-old Joseph J. Giacona III
Posted: December 5, 2008 in Stolen BoyTags: family, father, Giacona, Joseph, Joseph J. Giacona III, justice, Justiceforjuveniles.org, juveniles, life, murder, New York, parents, politics, teens
Fourteen-year-old Joseph Giacona. My friend Brad Lewallen at JusticeforJuveniles.org recently notified me of the strange case of New York’s then 13-year-old sacrificial lamb. Now fourteen, Joseph J. Giacona III has been charged as an adult with the second-degree murder in September of his father. Prosecutors say Joseph shot his 37-year-old father in the head with a [...]
