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    Because in the law and order world they don't eat their own.
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    Ahh, I love the smell of corruption in the air.
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    AG: Court of Criminal Appeals upholds capital murder conviction of George Martin

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    MONTGOMERY, Ala. —Attorney General Steve Marshall announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has affirmed the conviction of George Martin for the 1995 capital murder of his wife. Martin was convicted in Mobile County Circuit Court in June 2019 for the murder of Hammoleketh Martin, and was sentenced to life without parole.

    “Twenty five years ago George Martin took the life of his wife by setting her on fire in order to collect insurance money,” said Attorney General Marshall. “Martin, a former state trooper, who was originally convicted of this heinous crime twenty years ago, has spent decades evading justice. Today, the Court of Criminal Appeals upheld Martin’s second capital murder conviction and his sentence of life without parole. It is finally time for this cold-blooded killer to pay for his crime.”

    Martin was previously convicted in Mobile County Circuit Court in 2000 and served 15 years on death row for killing his wife. In 2015, his conviction was overturned and a new trial was ordered. Rather than proceeding with a retrial, the lower court dismissed the indictment and Martin was freed. The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the lower court’s decision in 2016. The Attorney General’s Criminal Appeals Division argued that the indictment was improperly dismissed and that Martin should be required to stand trial again. On August 31, 2018, the Alabama Supreme Court agreed and ordered Martin be retried for capital murder.

    In its August 2018 order, the Alabama Supreme Court restated the facts of the case as follows: “In 1995, the charred remains of Martin’s wife, Hammoleketh, were found inside a burned vehicle that had collided with a tree. Although it appeared to be an accident, evidence indicated that the vehicle fire was intentionally set and that the victim was alive when the fire started.

    Further evidence indicated that Martin made inconsistent statements to law enforcement concerning the time he discovered his wife missing, whether his wife carried a gasoline can in her vehicle and whether his wife had used a BIC brand lighter found at the scene as a flashlight because the dome light in her vehicle did not work.” Although Martin acknowledged the existence of a $200,000 life insurance policy, he denied there was any other. However, there was another policy for $150,000 that was collectible only if his wife died as a passenger in a vehicle. A trooper report prepared by Martin the year before involved an accident with similar circumstances.

    https://www.fox10tv.com/news/mobile_...3dddaaf59.html
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aaron View Post
    Why do murderous police escape the ultimate punishment so easily? There was a police chief in GA (Sidney Dorsey) who contracted the killing of another officer and didn't get death. I mean come on.
    There is probably a few more but the only wife killing cop I can think of on DR is Robert Fratta in TX.
    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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