Do you remember this.

[liberty]

Do you remember this ?

The ordinal story: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2 ... %2C00.html

Do they still get the million even if they are reprobates?
I remember how outraged you all were; what do you think now? They both got what they deserved; She would not gotten beaten up if she had not dated a felon and he would not have gone to prison if he had dated someone (black woman) whose words would be automatically believed over his.

In the court of public opinion the white southerner is always the liar.






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Published: October 21, 2009
COLUMBUS, Ohio — The young woman found in 2007 in a backwoods trailer in West Virginia, where she said she had been held captive and raped, recanted her story on Wednesday.

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Megan Williams, left, with her mother, Carmen Williams, in 2007, shortly after she accused seven people of attacking her.


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Frankie Brewster and her son Bobby Brewster were among those convicted of attacking Ms. Williams in this mobile home in Big Creek, W.Va. Ms. Williams's lawyer now says she is recanting her story of the attacks, which resulted in jail terms for six people.
“Megan Williams was 20 years old in September 2007 when she reported that she had been kidnapped, raped and tortured in an allegedly racist attack,” Byron L. Potts, Ms. Williams’s lawyer, said Wednesday in a brief statement. “Megan Williams is now recanting her story.”

The turn of events represents a striking reversal in a racially charged case that led to the conviction of seven people, all but one of whom are serving lengthy prison sentences. It also raises questions about whether the prosecutor, who resisted strong pressure to pursue hate-crime charges based on race, should have gone further in checking Ms. Williams’s credibility.

But Brian Abraham, the former prosecutor for Logan County who handled the cases, said the seven people charged with the crimes relating to Ms. Williams’s abuse had been convicted based on physical evidence and their own corroborating statements, not on Ms. Williams’s testimony.

“The ironic part of this whole thing is that we were criticized by Ms. Williams and her supporters for allowing the defendants to take plea agreements,” Mr. Abraham said, adding that the reason he offered plea agreements was that he was skeptical of Ms. Williams’s testimony.

At an early-evening news conference at his office here, Mr. Potts added that Ms. Williams had made up the story to reap revenge on a boyfriend who had beaten her up. Ms. Williams is coming forward because she no longer wants to live a lie, Mr. Potts said.

The recantation builds on an interview Ms. Williams gave in January to The Call and Post, a newspaper in Cleveland, in which she said she had indeed been abused in the trailer. But she said her mother, whom she feared, had made her embellish the story for financial gain. Ms. Williams’s mother, Carmen Williams, died in June.

Mr. Abraham said that Ms. Williams’s initial police report corresponded with the physical evidence and crime scene. “But then,” he said, “Ms. Williams began talking to the media, and her story grew and changed, and that is when we stopped relying on anything she said.”

Ms. Williams, who is black, had said the beatings sometimes involved racial epithets. Many civil rights leaders were critical of the prosecutor’s offer of plea agreements to the defendants, all of whom are white, and his pursuit of hate-crime charges against only one of them.

The Rev. Al Sharpton addressed a 2007 rally against hate crimes in Charleston and gave $1,000 to Ms. Williams’s family as a Christmas gift.

Mr. Sharpton said Wednesday that he had sent a letter to the current Logan County prosecutor, John Bennett, asking him to look into Ms. Williams’s new statement. “If the prosecution depended on something Ms. Williams said that she is now saying is false, the prosecutor needs to reopen this case,” Mr. Sharpton said. “And I told Ms. Williams exactly that.”

Those charged with the crimes against Ms. Williams, who now lives in Columbus, may have been easy targets for such accusations because they had a history of violent crime.

At the time of the alleged assaults, Ms. Williams was staying at a ramshackle trailer owned by Bobby Brewster and his mother, Frankie Brewster, in Logan County, about 50 miles from Charleston. Mr. Brewster had killed his stepfather at the trailer when he was 12, the authorities said, and served time at a juvenile facility. In July 1994, Mrs. Brewster shot and killed an 84-year-old woman she was looking after, also in the trailer, according to court records. She served six years at a state correctional facility and was paroled in 2000.

The police discovered Ms. Williams at the trailer in September 2007 after receiving an anonymous tip that she was being held captive. Ms. Williams later told the police she had been stabbed, sexually assaulted, beaten with sticks, forced to eat human feces and doused with hot water.

But in correspondence with The New York Times starting in February 2008, one of the accused offered a more complicated picture of life at the trailer.

In a letter in March 2008, that person, Alisha Burton, wrote that Ms. Williams had been held captive but only after a romantic relationship with Mr. Brewster took a turn for the worse.

“At the end, Frankie and her son, Bobby, would take turns pushing the chair by the door and sleeping there at night,” Ms. Burton wrote. “They made sure she wouldn’t go get the help she needed when she was cut by Bobby. She was held there for a week after she was cut by Bobby and Frankie B. b/c they was scared someone would get the law.”

Ms. Burton confirmed that Mr. Brewster had beaten Ms. Williams, but rejected the notion that the abuse was a hate crime, since Ms. Williams and Mr. Brewster had dated for months.

[Scooter]

So exactly what were we supposed to take the boyfriend's word about? That he didn't beat, stab and kidnap his girlfriend, even though one of his co-accused backs up Williams's story on all three of those counts?

[liberty]

So exactly what were we supposed to take the boyfriend's word about? That he didn't beat, stab and kidnap his girlfriend, even though one of his co-accused backs up Williams's story on all three of those counts?

He’s a felon; I wouldn’t take his word. I don’ t care if he kid when he killed his stepfather.

[Scooter]

You apparently also don't care about communicating in intelligible language.

[Sue U]

In the court of public opinion the white southerner is always the liar.

What part of "convicted based on physical evidence and their own corroborating statements, not on Ms. Williams’s testimony" don't you understand?