In a troubling example of a bungled and costly case that ill-served the victim, her family, and Tennessee taxpayers, Shelby County Judge James C. Beasley Jr. overturned the murder conviction of Tennessee death row inmate Michael Dale Rimmer late Friday afternoon in a 212-page order in which he concluded that Rimmer’s 1998 counsel and his resentencing counsel “provided ineffective assistance of counsel by failing to properly investigate and present evidence…” The result: “…the court’s confidence in the verdicts has been undermined and reliability in the verdicts cannot be had.”
The prosecution was less than forthcoming about witness evidence that was contrary to their theory of Rimmer as perpetrator. Testimony from a man who Continue reading
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