DOUBT
rather than release Brewer and declare
him innocent, West and District Attorney Forrest Allgood insisted that while
someone else may have raped the little
girl, West’s analysis still clearly showed
that Brewer had bitten her.
They posited that perhaps Brewer
had held the girl down and bitten her
while someone else raped her. Brewer’s
conviction was overturned, but Allgood
promised to try him again. So Brewer
remained in prison. Brewer’s attorneys next tried to get the DNA profile
of Christine Jackson’s killer uploaded
to state and national databases to see if
“How many other
cases like this
are out there?”
they could find a match. Allgood fought
them every step of the way. (Allgood did
not respond to a request for comment.)
In 2004, Tyler Edmonds was convicted of conspiring with his sister to kill
her husband. Edmonds was just 13 at the
time. The prosecution’s theory was that
Edmonds and his sister had simultaneously held and fired a gun at the victim
while he slept. Hayne testified that he
could tell by the bullet wounds in the
body that there were two hands on the
gun that created them.
HUFFINGTON
02.03.13
That assertion was too preposterous
even for the Mississippi Supreme Court.
In 2007, the court overturned the verdict
— but also went out of its way to explain
that the ruling pertained only to the Edmonds case. Th