Man convicted of 1989 Portland murder granted bail after star witness recants
In court Thursday, Cady recanted the damning testimony she gave 25 years ago that identified Sanborn as Briggs’ killer and said she was instructed by detectives on how to testify. Cady had been identified as the only eyewitness to the crime. No physical evidence connected Sanborn to the scene, and the state’s case was entirely circumstantial.
Cady, who was 13 at the time of Briggs’ murder, was also legally blind when she claimed to have seen Sanborn commit the crime at the end of a dimly lit pier, but her vision problem was not disclosed to Sanborn’s defense team.
Cady said she was questioned at length at least 10 times by Portland police detectives James Daniels and Daniel Young, and that they threatened her with incarceration if she did not cooperate.
“They basically told me what to say,” said Cady, who now lives in Augusta. Cady said the detectives frightened her and suggested they would press charges in unrelated assaults and have her locked up for years if she didn’t testify as they instructed.
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How and the fuck does a legally blind witness put you in jail? smh...
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1. "A terrible defense attorney HAD to play a big part in this" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Apr-14-17 11:03 AM by flipnile
>How and the fuck does a legally blind witness put you in jail? >smh...
Either that, or it was something bigger than dude (political?), and someone was set on him going down for this.
But yeah, one would think that's something that your defense attorney would figure out and make use of. I wonder if he had the dreaded appointed attorney because he couldn't afford one.
**************** TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*
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