Before the trial initially took place, the three of them were questioned and told their own stories to investigators, in which were all inconsistent and factually incorrect (“…New Orleans”). In reality, the investigators did not have any real evidence other than an unreliable eye-witness account of the victim’s four-year-old son and stories from the three convicts that are not consistent with each other. In addition, the only reason that they were given life sentences was due to the fact that they were forced into making confessions; otherwise, the penalty would be direct
Before the trial initially took place, the three of them were questioned and told their own stories to investigators, in which were all inconsistent and factually incorrect (“…New Orleans”). In reality, the investigators did not have any real evidence other than an unreliable eye-witness account of the victim’s four-year-old son and stories from the three convicts that are not consistent with each other. In addition, the only reason that they were given life sentences was due to the fact that they were forced into making confessions; otherwise, the penalty would be direct