Evil in Action

Once again, Radley Balko produces another bombshell investigative article. In his latest, Manufacturing Guilt? he provides video evidence showing the state medical examiner for Mississippi framing a man for murder.

West stands over Oliveaux's body, which now contains a striking red abrasion on her right cheek—an abrasion that wasn't there before. West then takes the plaster cast of Jimmie Duncan's teeth and pushes it into the scrape on Oliveaux's jaw. Over the next few minutes he jams, drags, and scrapes the dental mold across Oliveaux’s cheek 17 times. For the entire 24-minute video, West uses Duncan's teeth mold on Oliveaux's skin more than 50 times.

More terrifying is that the prosecutors and the judge on the case saw the video, and West's bite-mark 'analysis' was still presented as evidence at trial. Sick sick sick.