What The Jury Never Heard

Supporting Documents

They never knew that Edward was prevented from testifying because the State threatened to introduce an inadmissible, judicially exempt prior charge. Defense counsel told him not to take the stand even though Edward wanted to.
The jury never heard Edward’s side of the story, and his defense counsel never presented it.
The jury never heard that Becca dealt drugs for Geoff and was heavily into substance / alcohol use.
The jury never heard that Edward saw Geoff manhandle and yell at Becca on multiple occasions, and this was part of the reason she moved in temporarily with Edward.
At sentencing, the jury never heard that the prior charge was legally exempt, nonviolent, and age-based, or that witnesses in support of Edward were instructed not to contradict the State’s narrative.

This case hinged entirely on Becca's credibility; however, Edward's defense counsel never tested it.
The accuser had previously provided false information to law enforcement to protect her roommate and best friend, Geoffrey Jackson—with several recent felony convictions for assault / robbery / weapons.
The accuser told the jury that her roommate Geoff was a great guy with a small criminal history from his distant past. Defense counsel never challenged this false statement.
The jury never knew that her roommate Geoff was on probation for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon at the time of the alleged assault incident and had motive and proximity to be the more likely suspect.

The detective already had Edward’s home address and phone number in the police report yet claimed he could not locate or contact him. Defense counsel never pointed out this credibility issue to the jury.
The detective investigated by making one phone call to Becca to get Edward's number; she gave him an unknown number that did not match Edward's correct number in his police report. He called it once; no answer, then closed the case. He never verified if that was actually Edward's number.
The case was closed within hours after viewing Edward's 2003 conviction with the misleading label and did not consider that the conviction had been judicially exempted as consensual and nonviolent.
The jury never heard that there was no probable cause beyond the accuser’s word and that no meaningful investigation occurred — because defense counsel never presented it to the jury.

The jury never heard that messages supposedly written four years ago were produced only days before trial, with no opportunity for verification.
The jury was never told that Edward disputed the authenticity of the Facebook messages shown to them, nor that the messages had never been forensically sourced with timestamps and deletion logs.
The jury saw screenshots and was left to assume they were genuine because the court mistakenly allowed them to be submitted without authentication