By now it’s obvious to many that Brad Cooper was deprived of his right to a fair trial. The NC Court of Appeals agreed and ordered a new trial in September, 2013. The trial has yet to be scheduled. Through the many articles published at this blog I have tried to break down all of…
I haven’t spent any time covering this but have recently taken some time to review all of the testimony about the van sightings and I thought it may be helpful to spend some time summarizing all of the different descriptions as well as the time and dates provided by each witness. There were four witnesses…
One of the biggest contributing factors to wrongful convictions is police tunnel vision. This occurs in a fairly high percentage of the cases that have been studied – post DNA exonerations. It occurs when police narrow in on a suspect from the very beginning and then fail to consider other possibilities, suspects or scenarios. They…
I’ve been thinking about what Ann Peterson said during oral arguments, how the defense was thwarted again and again at trial and how no one seemed interested in getting to the Truth. I thought it might be interesting to create a list of all the obstacles faced along the way, beginning long before the trial…
Finally, there is progress! We’ve all been anxiously awaiting this. The trial was two years ago and we finally got to hear oral arguments on the appeal. Here is the video of the arguments and it is well worth the time to watch this. I thought it went really well. I was very impressed with…
Nancy Cooper was found wearing only a black and red sports bra when her body was discovered in a drainage pond on July 14th, 2008. On the afternoon of July 12th, Brad told police that she left to go running and hadn’t returned. Police questioned him extensively on the 12th and again on the 13th…
For those who didn’t follow this case, Brad Cooper was convicted of 1st degree murder for the death of his wife, Nancy Cooper in May, 2011. Although the State presented a lot of circumstantial evidence, the defense team was able to address every item and there was no evidence remaining to connect Brad in any…
This was another misleading part of the trial – Nancy’s running shoes. The prosecutors presented two pairs of her running shoes found in the home: an old pair of Asics and a newer pair of Sauconys. They wanted the jurors to believe that since her old and new pair of shoes were in the house,…
On the morning of July 12th, Brad made two trips to the Harris Teeter store. Trip one was made to buy milk for Katie, his two year old daughter. A second trip at 6:40AM was made to pick up laundry detergent. During the second trip, Brad received a phone call on his cell phone from…
