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Lead APD Homicide detective Rick Chambers altered evidence, hid evidence and repeatedly committed perjury during trial. Chambers is the one most responsible for Scott's false conviction
Lead APD Homicide detective Rick Chambers altered evidence, hid evidence and repeatedly committed perjury during trial. Chambers is the one most responsible for Scott’s false conviction

Scott Davis is an innocent man, yet he sits in prison wrongly convicted of the 1996 murder of David Coffin, Jr. This website will show you some of the facts that prove that the conviction of Scott represents a miscarriage of justice and that a killer remains free. The website also announces a $600,000 reward for information in this case. It provides you with a way to contact us and correct this injustice, and perhaps catch a killer.

David Coffin, Jr. was found dead of a gunshot wound to the head in his burning house in the early morning hours of December 11. 1996. Scott immediately became a suspect because his estranged wife was dating Coffin and because Scott had been attacked not once, but twice, at his home the same evening Coffin was found dead.

Scott was arrested on December, 13, 1996, mainly on the false assertion that he was the first person to divulge that Coffin had been shot. Scott sat in the Fulton County Jail for ninety days, then released on bail because Fulton County District Attorney Paul Howard did not seek an indictment against Scott due to “insufficient evidence”. Scott remained out on bail until June of 1998, when all charges were dropped. Charges were dropped because there was no solid or direct evidence that Scott had committed a crime. There were no fingerprints, DNA, or eyewitnesses that tied Scott to the crime. In fact, fingerprints found at the crime scene were compared against Scott’s and were not a match. Scott’s alibi for the burning of Mr. Coffin’s Porsche, found in DeKalb County was verified. Most importantly, Megan’s best friend came forward and said that Megan had told her Coffin had been “shot in the head” before Megan ever spoke to Scott.

The State’s case fell apart and evidence showed that Scott was innocent. Scott went on with his life. From 1997 until 2005 the State did little and found little to move the case forward. The Coffin family did continue the pressure by offering a reward for a conviction in the case. The reward started out at $100,000, but eventually became $300,000, which was the largest in Georgia’s history. James Daws, a private detective involved in Scott’s divorce case, came forward literally the day after the reward was announced, and said he had given Coffin’s address to Scott on Friday, December 6, 1996. This claim was fabricated and there is no corroborating evidence to support it.

The State did little on the case until April of 2005, when Det. Rick Chambers and Assistant District Attorneys Rand Csehy and Gayle Abramson went to California to hold a staged and untruthful press conference where Chambers claimed there was new evidence in the case and he secretly conduct a wiretap on Scott’s phones. In the press conference Chambers lied by claiming that the State had DNA tying Scott to the crimes and that the State had the alleged murder weapon which also tied Scott to the crimes. Both claims were blatantly false. No DNA tied Scott to any crime and the State had already lost the alleged murder weapon and many other pieces of crucial evidence.

The State was, as Chambers admitted during the trial, trying to ”tickle the wire” to try to get Scott and others to incriminate themselves. Scott, instead, professed his innocence and, in fact, incriminated Assistant D.A. Gayle Abramson for cocaine use during two encounters Scott had with her while she was covertly investigating him. Later it was learned that Csehy and Abramson were engaged to be married. They would both later admit Abramson’ s felonies in an interview with Scott’s attorneys.. This was all detailed in the Atlanta Journal Constitution in a report regarding the Nichols case. The State team left California empty-handed, but now with a major problem. Abramson also was one of the prosecutors of Brian Nichols, the courthouse killer, for his rape trial. The team returned but, instead of investigating Abrahamson’s crimes, D.A. Paul Howard and Senior A.D.A. Sheila Ross ignored the major crimes committed by their own. Instead, they began a cover-up and began the process of convicting Scott at all costs.

Later it was learned that, between the wiretap in April of 2005 and Scott’s eventual indictment in November of 2005, dozens of pieces of evidence disappeared without a trace and there was no acceptable explanation. The missing evidence included the crime scene fingerprints, that were not Scott’s and had not been run through AFIS or any fingerprint database; weapons; and “three bags of crime lab evidence”.

Scott went to trial in October of 2006. The State tried Scott using perjured testimony given by his former wife, Megan Bruton, Det, Rick Chambers, Jim Daws, Erik Voss, and others. Evidence of Coffin’s cocaine use was excluded from the trial. None of the evidence that could exonerate Scott was available. It was also learned that Howard had secretly tapped into the courtroom cameras and listened in on conversations and strategy meetings with Scott and his defense team that took place in the court room while court was not in session. Scott’s lawyers had asked permission to use the court room during breaks. They had no idea they were being watched on tv.

After a six-week trial and four days of jury deliberation, Scott was wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

This website will show you the facts that prove Scott is an innocent man and that he did not receive a fair trial.

On the front page, you will see the latest media announcing the newest discoveries of police misconduct that continue to be discovered today. New evidence that Atlanta Police Homicide detective Rick Chambers altered s tape of Scott’s police interview and in fact had withheld a second secret tape denied for nine years has been discovered when Chambers’ partner Marchel Walker was caught on tape admitting the evidence existed and was given to prosecutors. This completely impeached Chambers the lead detective and all his false testimony in the case. More is coming….

In the Suspects section you will see that the State investigated no other suspects and destroyed all the evidence that could identify his attacker.

In the Megan Bruton section you will see that all the evidence shows that Megan was the first person who knew that Coffin had been shot. She knew before the police knew. You will also see that Megan committed blatant perjury, ignored witness sequestration directives from the Court, and actively attempted to manipulate jurors and witnesses. Megan should be considered a serious suspect in the case.

In the Missing Evidence section you will see that five State agencies lost over 70 pieces of critical evidence without documentation or acceptable explanation. Anything that could help Scott disappeared, while anything the State deemed incriminating was preserved in a blatant double standard.

In the Prosecutorial Misconduct section you will see that representatives of the State lied, committed crimes, and manipulated evidence and testimony to convict Scott at all costs. You will see how this pervasive misconduct has influenced jurors and the justice system to convict Scott.

In the Evidence Vault section many case documents are provided to prove all the assertions in these sections. Witness interviews, trial transcripts, evidence documentation, and other facts will tie it all together.

Finally, in the Reward section you can see the information we are looking for to allow Scott a fair trial. If you provide useful, true and verifiable information, you will be eligible for part of the $600,000 reward, if Scott is freed and exonerated from information provided.

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