Martina Correia’s Torch Passed to Bill Windsor
By Mary W Maxwell, PhD, LLB

Troy Davis was executed four years ago today, on September 21, 2011, the autumn Equinox. The US Supreme Court outdid itself in unfairness by refusing to listen to the recantations made by 7 of the 9 “eyewitnesses” at Troy’s original trial. (See below.)

Troy's sister, Martina Correia, had done wonders to rally people to his cause. It is lucky for America that a senior citizen named Bill Windsor is fighting the battle of court injustice with all his might. He may have never met Martina, but he has got her spirit.

In the past, there had never been a citizen's roundup of injustice like that of Bill’s. Happily there didn’t have to be; courts deployed justice on a regular basis. Nowadays, local courts in America (I won’t even mention federal courts – Jahar Tsarnaev, anyone?) have become instruments of harassment. They mock the law.

That statement should be hard to accept – go ahead, refute it. i say Bill Windsor, with the magic of a Youtube series of videos has proved it true. Hundreds of interviews conducted by him are available now.

If you have 30 minutes to spare, listen to his story here. Or please just take my word for it: courts in Texas and Montana have been imprisoning this hero. Why? Because he is a threat to all the bad stuff that is going on. And why the hell is it going on? I am pretty sure it’s intended to break the nation’s will. After all, once you realize the law has disappeared, you are screwed.

In my new book, "Fraud Upon the Court" (Trine Day Press), I examine the Troy Davis execution in detail. Here are bits of the excerpts from the recantations of the original so-called eyewitnesses. Their statements were the only evidence on which the man was sent to Death Row.

The Recants

1. Antoine Williams: They asked me to describe the shooter and what he looked like and what he was wearing. I kept telling them that I didn’t know. It was dark, my windows were tinted, and I was scared. …. After the officers talked to me, they gave me a statement and told me to sign it. I signed it. I did not read it because I cannot read.

2. Kevin McQueen: The truth is that Troy never confessed to me… I made up the confession from information I had heard on TV.

3. Jeffrey Sapp: I got tired of them harassing me, and they made it clear that the only way they would leave me alone is if I told them what they wanted to hear. I told them that Troy told me he did it, but it wasn’t true. ….I didn’t want to have any more problems with the cops, so I testified against Troy.

4. Darrell Collins: After a couple of hours of the detectives yelling at me and threatening me, I finally broke down and told them what they wanted to hear. They would tell me things that they said had happened and I would repeat whatever they said. …the police had me so messed up that I felt that’s all I could do or else I would go to jail.

5. Dorothy Ferrell: From the way the officer was talking, he gave me the impression that I should say that Troy Davis was the one who shot the officer like the other witness had .... I also felt like I had to cooperate with the officer because of my being on parole…. The truth was that I didn’t see who shot [MacPhail].

6. Larry Young: I couldn’t honestly remember what anyone looked like or what different people were wearing. Plus, I had been drinking that day, so I just couldn’t tell who did what. The cops didn’t want to hear that and kept pressing me to give them answers. They made it clear that we weren’t leaving until I told them what they wanted to hear …. [Emphasis added]

-- end of Recants

Martina Correia, before her death at age 44, emailed me a copy of the judge’s trouncing of those witness recantations. I provide an excerpt below, with my sarcastic comments in square brackets. Note: the federal district judge, William T Moore, Jr, was under instructions from the US Supreme Court to see if Troys’ innocence could now be proven.

The recanter whose recant Moore ‘analyzes’ here is Darrell Collins. He was age 16 at the time he gave eyewitness. I repeat: he was a monor and was being interrogated by police. Is that even legal?

Note how a "legal expert' can make the the English language wotk wonders. I’ve give this excerpt an appropriate title:

Contortionist’s Delight

“At the trial, Mr. Collins reaffirmed [!] that Mr. Davis was wearing the white shirt and assaulted Mr. Young. His present recantation is a second attempt at recantation in which he goes further than he did at trial [At trial, he had to ‘recant’ when the cross-examiner found inconsistencies.]; it is new only in its breadth and rationale, not in its existence. [I want Judge Moore disbarred right now. There has to be respect for our intelligence.]

Mr. Collins also told the police that Mr. Davis was responsible for the Cloverdale shooting, but recanted this testimony at trial. [Judge knows that Cooper, the victim at Cloverdale, has said Troy didn’t shoot him, but makes no mention of that.]

(Mr Collins) also testified at trial that he included this in his police statement due to police coercion. However [he had] testified at trial that he lied about Mr. Davis’s involvement in the Cloverdale shooting due to police intimidation. [So what?]

In his recantation affidavit, Mr. Collins claimed a second lie -- that he never saw Mr. Davis strike Larry Young. He averred that he was comfortable revealing the first lie at trial but not the second because he felt the police cared more about whether Mr. Davis assaulted Mr. Young than Mr. Davis’s responsibility for the Cloverdale shooting. [Naturally. MacPhail died, Cooper lived.]

At the hearing, Mr. Collins again claimed that he lied about both the assault on Larry Young and the Cloverdale incident due to police coercion. Specifically, he claims that he simply parroted what the police told him to say. [Indeed.] However, he did not recant his earlier testimony that Mr. Davis was wearing the white shirt on the night of the shootings. [Note: SCOTUS could allow Moore to have Collins clarify this matter now.]

At the hearing, Mr. Collins did not recant his testimony regarding the white shirt. Instead, he testified that he presently had no memory of what color shirt Mr. Davis was wearing that night [I call that a recantation!], but would assume that whatever he told the police about the color of Mr. Davis’s shirt would have been a lie because all inculpatory testimony he provided is presumptively false in his mind.

Of course, that statement is very different [No, it isn’t] from stating that, as a matter of his own knowledge, he is sure that he was lying. Mr. Collins’ testimony is neither credible [To me it’s credible in light of “After a couple of hours of the detectives yelling at me and threatening me.”] nor a full recantation. [Shame on you, Judge]

First, regardless of the recantation, Mr. Collins’s previous testimony, that has never been unequivocally recanted [I would say it has been “comprehensively recanted”, wouldn’t you?] still provides significant evidence of Mr. Davis’s guilt by placing him in the white shirt. [Excuse me, “significant?”? He said he lied.]

Second, if Mr. Collins’s claim that he simply parroted false statements fed to him by police is truthful, query why Mr. Collins never directly identified Mr. Davis as Officer MacPhail’s murderer. Surely, this would have been the best available false testimony [Mother of God!], and given Mr. Collins’s proximity to the murder it would have been as reasonable as any other false testimony [Reasonable in what sense? If he had not been threatened by police, should he have made it up for the sake of reasonableness?]

Third, there was credible testimony from Officer [!!] Sweeney and Mr. Lock [say] that Mr. Collins’s testimony was not coerced. Further, even if Mr. Collins’s allegations regarding coercion and false testimony are true [what? Is the judge now entertaining the possibility that the police are coercive?]] they are not new.

Mr. Collins testified at trial that he was coerced and that his statements regarding Mr. Davis’s involvement in the Cloverdale shooting were fabricated. Moreover, his explanation as to why he revealed only the lie regarding the Cloverdale shooting at trial is not believable (explaining that Mr. Collins believed the police cared more about his false testimony regarding Mr. Young than the Cloverdale incident). [Excuse me, am I in the Soviet Union?]

Indeed, it would be puzzling to think that the police would not find Mr. Collins’s accusations of harassment in the context of the Cloverdale shooting offensive but would be bothered by the exact same allegations with respect to the assault on Young. – end of quote.

Sweardagod, Judge Moore said, in effect, that Darrell shouldn’t be listened to – to save Troy form lethal injection --because if the cops had wanted to get Darrell to tell a story incriminating Troy Davis they would have pumped him with “the best available false testimony.”
Sweardagod.

Note: I got “sucked into” the case because Troy’s sister, Martina, had such a winning way and his Mom, Virginia had so much faith that the worst would not happen. Virginia died at age 65 of no apparent cause, five months before her son was executed. Martina died two and a half months after the execution.

-- Mary W Maxwell can be reached at ProsecutionForTreason.com. She writes for GumshoeNews.com in Australia. Her recent letter to the Massachusetts Attorney General, re Tsarnaev, is linked below.