Framed With Google Maps: The Truth About the Brad Cooper Case, by Lynne Blanchard
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Framed With Google Maps: The Truth About the Brad Cooper Case, by Lynne Blanchard
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A woman disappears while jogging in an upper class suburb and is later found murdered. Was it a random crime or did she know her killer? Discover how police fabricated evidence to implicate the suspect of their choice as tunnel vision took hold. This shocking true story will open your eyes to the horrors of the American justice system as you learn how easily one can be wrongfully convicted of a crime and locked away for years.
Framed With Google Maps: The Truth About the Brad Cooper Case, by Lynne Blanchard- Amazon Sales Rank: #703169 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .73" w x 6.00" l, .95 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 322 pages
About the Author Lynne Blanchard resides in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband and two sons. She graduated from Kent State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry and worked in the field of coatings and polymers in various technical and sales roles. She currently works as an advocate for the wrongfully convicted.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful. Lynne Blanchard has done an amazing and thorough job of sifting through all of the ... By Megan C. This is an extremely troubling account of how anyone can be convicted of a crime - with or without evidence. Lynne Blanchard has done an amazing and thorough job of sifting through all of the evidence of this case. It's an easy read and very detailed - she manages to break down how the police and DA's office in this case were able to convict someone based on gossipy neighbors. Everyone in America should read this book - it's terrifying.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful. Lynne Blanchard did a really good job laying out the details of this case By Ivon H. Lewis Lynne Blanchard did a really good job laying out the details of this case, I was shocked back in 2011 when I watched the trail, and I still can't believe all the lies and false evidence the police, FBI, the prosecutors and the judge got away with. The whole case was based on neighborhood gossip, at least one witness was so visibly nervous on the witness stand, that he should have become a suspect right then and there. Officials should be in jail over what they have done to Brad Cooper and his family, but they are all still around, and so is the real killer of Nancy Cooper. I do NOT recommend going jogging in Cary, NC.I am glad the author took on the task of writing this book, and exposing the truth, while it was obvious during the trial that Brad was being railroaded, after reading this book I realize, it was even worse then I thought.I do hope Lynne will write a book about the Jason Young case, as it went very similar to Brad's, given the gas mileage of his car, and the distances involved, there was no way he could have done this, or would have stopped at the gas station someone said they saw him.
23 of 25 people found the following review helpful. Justice Denied – Wake County North Carolina By Terry Cooper As someone who was present at both the custody hearings in the summer / fall 2008 and the criminal trial in spring 2011, I feel that Lynne Blanchard has done an outstanding job in synthesising the thousands of pages of court documents into a very readable book based on actual facts from the trial or depositions and not suppositions. What is clear as one reads the book is that the Cary police focused on Brad Cooper the very day Nancy Cooper was reported missing. His children were taken from him two days after Nancy’s body was recovered and five days after she was reported missing - long before any evidence collected was even processed and over three months before he was even charged.The early chapters focus on the botched investigation by the Cary police department in which evidence was compromised, sometimes never collected and procedures for chain of custody of evidence completely ignored. There are examples of critical evidence destroyed by police, withheld from Brad’s defense so it could not be challenged in court to prove his innocence (for example IP address for Google map file), and witness statements and police reports that were manipulated and altered to suit their case. Witnesses favourable to the defense were often ignored early in the investigation and possible leads pointing to other suspects never followed up on. Perhaps Howard Cummings, the lead prosecutor, summed it up best when questioning Carol Cooper about the supposed missing ducks, “You realize you just made our witnesses look like a bunch of liars?” It is interesting Howard Cummings and his prosecution team condoned the lies and misrepresentations of their witnesses but this was one telling example where he himself brought this up in front of the jury.As Lynne clearly articulates in her book, this case was never about searching for the truth but rather getting a conviction. The “tunnel vision” was evident from the day Nancy went missing. The police and prosecutors did everything in their power to make “the glove fit” for the indictment and jury even when they knew the evidence was false or misleading. Worse still the judge in this case, Paul Gessner, allowed prejudicial hearsay to dominate the trial so that the jury was unable to really distinguish fact from fiction as the weeks went on. The prosecution team, along with the obvious tacit cooperation of Judge Paul Gessner, denied the defense every opportunity to challenge the evidence presented regarding the map search as will be discussed below.The only piece of evidence the jury convicted Brad Cooper on was his supposed 42 second search of the area Nancy’s body was found one day before she was reported being missing. If the reader focuses on this chapter in Lynne’s book as well as the chapter on the appeal court’s decision to order a new trial one will clearly see to what ends the judicial system (Cary police, Wake County prosecutors, judge Gessner) went to make a conviction.Let’s start with the opening statement by prosecutor Amy Fitzhugh. No mention whatsoever was made about the google map which was the key, and only piece, of evidence supposedly linking Brad to Nancy’s murder. If introduced, as any first year law student knows, it would have laid the foundation for all the prejudicial hearsay that was coming. To the readers it is easy to make the conclusion it was left out because the prosecutors knew the map was placed on Brad Cooper’s laptop while unsecured in Cary police custody and its authenticity could easily be refuted by the defense. It was only introduced once the prosecution team recognized the trial was not going as expected and there was no evidence tying Brad Cooper to Nancy’s murder. The prosecution had to play this card, and with Paul Gessner’s biased cooperation, were able to stymy the defense at every turn.Once the map was introduced, the court denied the defense every opportunity to refute its legitimacy including the processes used for the testing procedures based on “national security”. Expert defense witnesses were denied the ability to testify before the jury. The prosecution was never able to explain the lack of a map search “cookie”, altered files, no browser history for the map search, invalid time stamps, cursor file anomalies, deleted Google watermark and numerous incursions on the laptop while in police custody …. the list goes on. The defense’s expert witnesses (Jay Ward, Giovanni Masucci) were willing to testify the computer was tampered with but Paul Gessner never gave them the opportunity.Criminal defendants have several rights but the most essential protection is the requirement that the prosecution prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. By blocking Howard Kurtz and his defense team from introducing evidence through their expert witnesses Brad Cooper was denied this basic right. In the end, the North Carolina Court of Appeals recognized this travesty of justice and ordered a new trial. The State’s request for a discretionary review by the North Carolina Supreme Court was rejected.The readers may wonder why Brad Cooper took a plea bargain to second degree murder but given what happened after the appeal court ruling he had no choice. As Lynne mentions in the book, the legal counsel Brad was assigned was clearly not prepared to represent him given Brad was facing the very same judge Paul Gessner who was chastised by the appeal court on his rulings. During the 9 month period from the appeal court ruling and to the plea agreement his assigned defense attorney James Freeman, who was not even on the capital public defender’s list, only met with Brad four times, had not finished reading the trial transcript but worse still never informed Brad about the pending plea agreement. Brad found out about the agreement on the prison television and now had only days to make a decision before going before Paul Gessner. Given the options of getting out in 6 years versus going once again in front of Paul Gessner with a possible life sentence in the balance with his assigned legal representation the choice was easy given the time to go to trial (two years or more). Furthermore, there were no assurances Brad Cooper and his lawyer would have the same resources available to them as were provided in the first trial to prove the map was planted. James Freeman was not as experienced in such cases as were Howard Kurtz or Robert Trenkle, Brad’s original attorneys, who did everything possible to discredit the map and other witnesses despite the obvious bias of the judge (as you will read in the book Howard Kurtz actually asked Paul Gessner to recluse himself because of his bias).Lynne’s book is a “must read” for the citizens, and particularly the legal community, of Wake County. Everyone should be entitled to a fair hearing before a competent, independent and impartial judge which was certainly not the case in either the custody or criminal proceedings. Unfortunately those responsible for this miscarriage of justice are still players in the Wake County justice system and proving “guilty beyond a reasonable doubt” is something these individuals clearly ignored and will likely do so again.
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