There is nothing more comforting to me then the sound of rain on a tin roof. I am currently sitting on my front porch on my mom's bench, and enjoying the coolness, the freshness, the smell, and the sound of the rain. Up until a few minutes ago, my dog was curled up at my feet, but he decided to run after my sister when she pulled into the driveway.
I guess I am blogging because I helped put a man in jail yesterday. It sounds, well bad. Yes the crimes against him were obvious that it was him. His DNA was found at the scene, on the disquise he used and left at the scene. The defense's argument was that no one could identify him, but his DNA was at the scene, and he had access to everything used. There were too many coincidences for it not to be a coinicidence, and yet, I am still wondering if it was the right verdict because I helped put a man in jail.
For understandings sake, I will put a brief overview so that every one knows what I am talking about, since I am allowed to speak about it now. June 14th of last year, a Key Bank was well, robbed. Well, attempted to be robbed. The suspect walked in, 6'2-6'4 medium complected african american, walked up to the desk wearing a black button down shirt with a logo emblazoned on the back, a long black wig, and dark sunglasses covering his face. He went up to the tellers station and demanded "Give me the mother fucking money". The teller complied and handed over two bundles of ones, totalling a thousand dollars. The suspect never noticed the on duty cop in the corner of the bank working security, and leapt onto the counter in an attempt to get more money from the drawer. The officer drew his gun and ordered him to get on the ground, and he did. The officer moved to the side to handcuff him, but the suspect pushed up off the ground, and ran. The cop tackled him outside the bank, but he managed to "buck" the cop off, and ran out of the parking lot to an already started getaway vehicle. He got away, but the money was left at the scene, every single dollar of it.
The evidence included the black shirt, and wig the suspect was wearing, the video of the robbery as it happened, and the fact that the former girlfriend of the defendant had rented the car used as the getaway vehicle as determined by the plates the cop managed to see, to the defendants family. But, the car was never searched as it had been turned into th renatl agency the same day and something went wrong there, there was more than just the suspects DNA on the items, though he was the major profile on each, and there is no one who could positively identify him at the scene. We were given no allibi, no witnesses from the defense besides the detective on the case who we had already heard from, and the body language of the suspect was very, controlling I would like to say and the other jurors agreed with me when his former girlfriend was on the stand. Then there was the DNA, at least 65% of it had come from the defendant, and he was the only profile on both that matched. There were two profiles on the shirt, three on the wig, his was the major profile on both, and the only same profile on both. So obviously he had to do it, right? There was video, and DNA, and the car. Too many coincidences, for it just to be a coincidence.
But yet, here I am a day later doubting myself like it could change anything now. At least we now know that he had a record for robbery before, so maybe that kinda makes it a little better.
Yours Truly,
Laurel Lee
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