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IPFS News Link • Criminal Justice System

Where Justice Goes to Die

• by William Grigg (Pro Liberate)
Ten years ago, a 21-year-old woman named Tonya Hart was shot to death in a Moscow, Idaho trailer court. Two years later, a local man named David J. Meisner, who confessed to the crime during a recorded police interrogation, was convicted of murder and sentenced to life in prison. Last month, the Idaho State Supreme Court ruled that trial judge John Stegner committed a reversible error when he refused to allow the defense to present evidence that someone else might have pulled the trigger on the gun used to kill Miss Hart. 

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