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Cathy Belben (she/her/Belbs/Ms.)

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I brought Lainey into my home to keep Rosie company. Seems to be working out. 🥰 #bernesemountaindog

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I encourage everyone to read Just Mercy. Bryan Stevenson speaks truth to power and secures exoneration for a man wrongly accused of murder after LE tunnel vision condemned the wrong man. #DelphiTrial


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If you believe Richard Allen is guilty, I urge you to read this memorandum and consider it carefully before drawing a conclusion. Please keep in mind, the jury did NOT hear any of this evidence, nor were they informed about other potential suspects. Two alternate suspects, Elvis…


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A jury has declared that it is perfectly legal to hold someone in solitary confinement in a maximum security prison without being convicted of a crime, and psychologically torture that person to coerce a confession. This country is headed down a dark path. #RichardAllenTrial


All you have to do is browse the National Registry of Exonerations to see that wrongful convictions are all too common. #RichardAllen law.umich.edu/special/exoner…


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No credible eyewitnesses. No DNA. No blood on the suspect. Not enough time for one person to do it. No history of SA or violence. Trash bullet “evidence.” Confessions under psychosis. A nonsensical timeline…what did I miss? #RichardAllen


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Why is @NewsyBarbara & @bobsegallwthr @WTHRcom LYING about what was heard inside the courtroom? #RickAllen's daughter said she DOES love her father—I have multiple unbiased sources in the room. You are disgusting. #DelphiTrial


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“The continued usage of spit hoods has been deemed by human rights experts as inhumane and to contravene multiple international conventions,including the Convention Against Torture and United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners(Nelson Mandela Rules)”

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Apparently some reporters in the room could see the laptop where the defense was playing the videos. They showed Allen being dragged naked through the prison, there were also some where he was wearing a black hood (aka a spit hood) and being walked around.



Tunnel vision is the tendency of actors in the criminal justice system to use short-cuts to filter evidence selectively to build a case for a suspect’s convicti… Source: Sage Journals #DelphiTrial #RichardAllen search.app/fk94N5eNGGxs8R…


Reminder: "psychosis/psychotic" refers to someone who has had a temporary mental break w/reality. "Psychopath/psychopathic" refers to a person who has a pervasive, lifelong personality disorder that causes lack of empathy. #Delphi #RichardAllen


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You might also be interested in a recent chapter Deborah Davis and Richard Leo wrote in “Interviewing and #Interrogation: A Review of Research and Practice Since World War II” about #FalseConfessions and jurors. It’s open access — no pay wall. ➡️ legal-tools.org/doc/qjmj8b/pdf


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