David+Munchinski

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Case Facts:
 * David Munchinski is currently serving 2 life sentences for the murder of 2 Fayette county drug dealers, James Peter Alford and Raymond Gierke.
 * The 2 victims were supposedly sodomized before they were murdered by the 2 killers.
 * One of the killers, Scaglione, confessed to the killings but claims that Munchinski was not accomplice. However, he died before he could testify that fact to the court.
 * A 3rd person however, Richard Bowen, claimed that he was the getaway driver for Scaglione and Munchinski. This was the primary evidence for convicting Munchinski.
 * There was no hard evidence to pin Munchinshi and Scaglione at the crime.
 * Munchinski later proved that Bowen had falsified his testimony by proving that Bowen was not even in-state during the killings, let alone the fact that Munchinski had not even met him prior to trial.
 * Bowen hung himself before clearing anything about his testimony, leaving this case with many unresolved issues.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Munchinski had his case appealed 3 times, only to get convicted all 3 times because the same facts were presented each time.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Misc. Facts:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Wants nothing more than to be free and to prove to his daughter that he did not commit the crime.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">DNA evidence was not used in this trial because the practice was not perfected during this time.

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Personal Opinion:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">We think that he is in fact guilty of the crime.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s just one big circle of “he-said, she-said”.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; list-style-type: disc; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">There’s no proof that he was there when the murders happened, but he has also been unable to produce an alibi.