This is the worst verdict I've seen yet, in the 30-or-so episodes I've watched of this program. It makes me totally lose faith in the jury system. You wonder: "what are these people thinking?"
ere, a man with 16 charges against him including eyewitnesses who saw him shoot and kill a man, and then drive off in a stolen police car.....got off, on all counts! Unbelievably, Daniel Martinez, beat the rap, thanks to a high-profiled and slick lawyer who obviously fooled a stupid jury. Martinez, everyone agreed, was the town "low-life," a guy with a rap sheet "longer than the Rio Grande," as narrator Paul Winfield puts it.
Martinez wound up playing both sides of the fence: a full-time criminal and a snitch for the police. The combination didn't work out, and a "Good Samaritan," wound up losing his life because of it. The details of the story I'll leave for you to discover by watching this episode.
I didn't understand another thing: why the victim in the case just simply didn't call the police instead of slipping out of his house in the middle of the night to investigate a woman's screams and other suspicious noises. Well, his heart was in the right place.
The history of this criminal, the Sante Fe police department, which didn't come off looking good, either, and a fascinating look at "The City Different," comprise this hour-long show.
Sante Fe, one of the art capitals of the U.S., looks fascinating but it's not just one long art festival. It has crime, just like everywhere and by the early '90s, the rapes and murders came were highlighted by this bizarre case.
Oddly, justice did prevail a year later....but not concerning this case.
ere, a man with 16 charges against him including eyewitnesses who saw him shoot and kill a man, and then drive off in a stolen police car.....got off, on all counts! Unbelievably, Daniel Martinez, beat the rap, thanks to a high-profiled and slick lawyer who obviously fooled a stupid jury. Martinez, everyone agreed, was the town "low-life," a guy with a rap sheet "longer than the Rio Grande," as narrator Paul Winfield puts it.
Martinez wound up playing both sides of the fence: a full-time criminal and a snitch for the police. The combination didn't work out, and a "Good Samaritan," wound up losing his life because of it. The details of the story I'll leave for you to discover by watching this episode.
I didn't understand another thing: why the victim in the case just simply didn't call the police instead of slipping out of his house in the middle of the night to investigate a woman's screams and other suspicious noises. Well, his heart was in the right place.
The history of this criminal, the Sante Fe police department, which didn't come off looking good, either, and a fascinating look at "The City Different," comprise this hour-long show.
Sante Fe, one of the art capitals of the U.S., looks fascinating but it's not just one long art festival. It has crime, just like everywhere and by the early '90s, the rapes and murders came were highlighted by this bizarre case.
Oddly, justice did prevail a year later....but not concerning this case.