Convicted Murderer
Tim Masters
By: Francis DeSales
Tim Masters was convicted of murder. He was innocent.
There's nothing unusual in that. Many hundreds of persons are
in prison convicted of crimes they didn't really commit.
Prosecutors don't care if a person is guilty or not. All they care about is putting someone in prison. Much of the time, they get the wrong person. What's unusual with the Masters' case is that he was released. A great defense team and a special investigator got a DNA test. It completely exonerated Mister Masters. That's VERY unusual! Few people care if a prisoner is guilty or not. Tim Masters' case is very unusual. He spent over 9 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit. Finally diligence on the part of unusual lawyers and investigators exonerated him. When Mr. Masters was only a 15 year-old, his neighbor was viciously murdered. After a number of years had passed, the cops charged Masters. They lied. That's what cops do. Never believe a cop. They lie. A quack psychologist was paid to testify against Tim. The psychologist relied on drawings that Tim had made as a child. He say that Tim had not only murdered the woman, but was a danger and might murder again. In reality, the drawings were just the kind of grotesque violence that many, if not most adolescent boys doodle. No matter, Tim was given life. The jury bought the "he'll kill again" lie. Much more effort must be put into freeing the innocent people in prison. Much more effort must be put into keeping innocent people out of prison. That's especially true for murder cases where life imprisonment or the death penalty are possible. The best hope to protect the innocent is to curtail police and their powers and to limit what prosecutors can do and how they can do it. Remebmer Mike Nifong and the infamous Duke rape case fiasco.
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