Exonerations are at an all time high as more wrongful conviction cases continue to surface. While some are due to mistakes, an overwhelming number of them involve abuses of power — fraud and corruption — coerced witnesses, jailhouse snitches, junk science, fabricated evidence, perjury, prosecutorial misconduct and unfair judges. In two Wake County, North Carolina…
I wrote an article about the importance of third party verification of digital evidence a while back. It is the only way to know for sure that the evidence — the files or search terms or whatever is pertinent to the case were actually searched for by the accused. It is standard procedure in civil…
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…
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…
Before watching the Cooper trial, I never paid much attention to trials. I always assumed that strong evidence must exist in these cases, otherwise we would see a lot more acquittals. I casually read the local news, never taking a close look at the specifics of the cases and without having the ability to view…
Brad Cooper Case 