It could mean, knowing that the system would be so gung-ho for guilt and its appearence so obvious that it could take James about ten to twenty years to finally see and breathe freedom, twisted by the system. I did not follow this case closely, knowing Melissa's problems with that area, I knew that justice would not be served in this case, as in Jordan Brown and in the case of the West Memphis Three. Their mindset is smaller than their common sense.
The defense counsel was not aggressive enough with everyone who was in that house that night. In fact, the defense counsel was not agressive with the mom and stwepdad as well. The goal is to fly them off the hinges, make them utter something or do some physical act to ruin their credibility. The reason the jury voted guilty, outside reading the transcript is that the jury could not think that someone else that night raped that little girl.
So on what ground would I appeal. It seems that the court did not make any mistakes thought the appellate court can throw out the case on grounds of judicial misconduct in the that the judge should have dropped all the charges and freed the defendent once he felt the prosecution could not prove their case. Let us hope that when this case is overturned, the prosecutor desides never to try it again and go after the right person.
Then there has to be DNA evidencce in this case, such a rape could not be covered up fast enough. If DNA evidence had indeed not pointed to James, then no charges would ever been filed against him. If someone tried to clean up the victim of that evidence, even that would be obvious if the victim could communicate about her rape, but since the victim was a baby, no such communication could take place.
The only other way James to be freed is the real doer confessing to the crime. Unlike murder, rape is easy to repeat again and again. For person who raped a baby, doing it again to some other infant or young toddler or even an older person would be so irresistable again. Maybe he would get caught this time. There will be no one to frame this time. Facing serious time in jail, the real rapist would talk about his life, eventually confessing to the crime that put James in jail. If not, he must be the lowest crook on this planet. with no conscience or regret, but the similarity to his crime to the crime the cops thought they solved will be damning.
BTW, if there is no DNA evidence, it easily clears James Prindle. If a younger kid committed the rape (one of the brothers), perhaps they could not ejculate at the time or they were crafty at pulling out at orgasm, catching the amor of their crime in a tissue or some other unobvious thing, getting rid of it later. Though it would not get rid of all "evidence". Pubescent males do leave some evidence if they raped without a condom. Ever heard of pre-ejacultate material? It is the one reason women get pregnant even if the practice coitus interruptus or the rhythm method. That male extra is a fluid that various from male to male and from the time they last "did it". Many men might not make enough, but others can make enough, so containing enough sperm to cause a pregnancy or in cases of rape, enough DNA to send them to prison. It is one of those things.
It looks like it could take two decades but there is a chance of DNA, the real killer or a technicality overturning this "textbook" unconstitutional verdict.
