I’m not buying his innocence for a second. And reportedly a witness placed Mike hurrying away from the scene the night before the body was found. But plenty of murders – partic the spontaneous ones – are messy. Almost as if they tried to frame him by putting information in that Was not true and hiding true facts at the same time period it makes one feel as though Mike Peterson was innocent after all. if he did it, he is lucky, if he is innocent, he is unlucky. The Staircase netflix Documentary series and about the death of Kathleen Peterson and which follows the trial of Michael Peterson as well as the upcoming series starring Harrison Ford. Extremely regrettably the innocent are sometimes convicted – sometimes with the malfeasance of the police and/or prosecutor, though many more who are guilty are likely acquitted (or never indicted in the first place) – not that that makes anything better for the innocent. In April 2019, an extensive News & Observer story by Andrew Carter reported that Michael had written an e-book titled Behind the Staircase to exonerate himself, with any profits going toward charity. Until next time, cheers. That’s highly unlikely. Pop-culture phenom. if the information that was used in court was proved at the time to be false, he would have been acquitted. What 2 dead wives? Good luck in getting you name cleared. Karen, Michael Peterson looks broken. Had Phil been armed with this kind of counterpoint, it would have been a better interview. However Margaret is spitting image of Michael??? The state not only committed perjury but falsified evidence, hid other evidence? Owls do not attack, unless provoked. If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it’s a duck. No mention that Deaver and his blood testimony was all lies leading to his firing from the SBI .. found over 40 cases where he made up evidence or withheld evidence including this case … beyond a reasonable doubt! Plus with the things he wrote in some of his books, yeah…he’s guilty. Looks like you're using new Reddit on an old browser. Ultimately, what they think is irrelevant to us but probably not to him…. The strongest basis for acquittal – and one’s expectation of such – is innocence. I have watched this documentary 5 times now. It shields them from being sued by people wrongfully imprisoned. Who concludes that a person has been, say, shot in the head only if there is a gun lying around rather than a bullet hole in the head? An adult human? I am so done with all you that think you know all the answers just because you feel in your pinky toe it’s correct. I think she is his biological daughter! Michael also told the News & Observer that well-to-do friends from his and Kathleen’s napkin-ring and place-card days had deserted him. my barister told me i was not allowed to mention the first trial, and all the goalposts were moved to prevent justice in the re-trial. Indeed, he didn’t get a fair trial for the reasons you’ve mentioned, which proved how incapable and corrupt the prosecutors were. Source: NI Courts and Tribunals Service, NI Department of Justice No winners however, Deaver is a disgrace so, why not run a re-trial test by giving all new evidence and keeping out any and all prejudicial evidence (as ultimately agreed by judge in this case saying, he would have changed some things if he had to do it all again) and then see if he would have been found guilty? While I obviously disagree with him, I found MPs interactions to be fascinating and that is what I signed up for. I’ve asked this before: if not accidental, which is the MORE likely: he did it (esp given the circumstantial evidence) or the owl did? Click Here to Be Part of the 'Dr. We can, of course, only know it’s happened after the fact, and as a proportion of all convictions those shown to be wrongful, for whatever reason, are small. Per UK, I cite these figures for convenience (the ones I found first, before England or whole-of-UK): Wrongful convictions in Northern Ireland: £9m in compensation since 2010; Well, Ed, the response is simple. In the apparent absence of an intruder/weapon people would indeed think the person had fallen badly and hit their head. I have my opinion. The average person doesn’t stand a chance. ), I watched the documentary recently and thought, could she have found out the same night and he pushed her down the stairs. Very interesting case IMO. I certainly don’t think he is. Conviction for alleged sexual offences (involving adults) is particularly susceptible to wrongful outcome as such trials are typically relatively highly predicated on whom to believe and circumstantial evidence.