New evidence of police misconduct on the part of Atlanta homicide detectives was filed in court today (see the motion below). Over the last 19 years, police and prosecutors have denied there were two tapes of Scott Davis’s illegal interrogation were recorded. Police also denied that the one tape that was presented at trial had been  altered or edited. This is a key issue in Scott’s current appeal because Scott has claimed for 19 years he was threatened and the interview was altered. All of this wss denied at trial by the lead homicide detective to hide the police misconduct. The altered tape was a major reason Scott was falsely convicted at trial.

Evidence of both alterations and two tapes came out after trial during Scott’s state habeas hearings. However lead detective Rick Chambers testified again falsely in those hearings and denied that two tapes existed. The state habeas Court essentially agreed with the detective over multiple audio experts simply because the detective was present during Scott’s interview.

New evidence was collected two days ago that there were in fact two tapes recorded by detectives in the case. During a recent recorded interview with the second homicide detective in the case, Marchel Walker, detective Walker admitted definitively that there were in fact two tapes recorded. He states on the recording that there was one micro cassette recorder and one regular standard size cassette recorded in a separate tape recorders during the interview. Walker states that both tapes were transcribed and then hand over to prosecutors. This standard cassette was never disclosed or turned over to Scott’s defense team despite repeated requests for all evidence. Prosecutors and police have also denied the existence of this second tape during testimony and in court filings. They have done this for the entirety of the case.

Walker’s new admissions prove that Detective Chambers and others have committed repeated perjury throughout Scott’s case. The new admissions also support Scott’s contention that the tapes were altered and that they were done so to hide both the threats made against him during the interview and his exculpatory answers that were removed. Scott also has argued the majority of Chambers’ testimony was false and that Chambers was responsible for a majority of the misconduct in the case. This new evidence supports Scott and should forever impeach Chambers’ testimony and credibility.

This new evidence also supports Scott’s contentions in his current appeal that police and prosecutors conducted the case with bad faith and have intentionally mislead the Court and Scott’s defense team throughout the entirety of this case. It supports the main contention that Scott’s trial was unfair because of this intentional misconduct. This new evidence further supports this in should be an overwhelming piece of evidence to overcome any argument from the State that this case was handled with good faith.

Scott has argued from the beginning of this case that police wrongfully accused him of the crime in 1996. Once the initial arrest fell apart in 1996 and Scott was released , police and prosecutors have lost and altered evidence to support their initial failed arrest. This new evidence should prove the misconduct beyond a doubt.

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Read the filed motion below :

 

Notice to Consider New Evidence of Material Facts – file stamped – Read the Motion