What The Jury Never Heard

Supporting Documents

Police records confirm that the accuser was interviewed in connection with a 2019 homicide investigation just five months before accusing Edward. Edward had already told counsel that he personally witnessed her coordinate false information to protect her roommate, Geoff, who was on probation at the time and had a violent criminal history. None of this was disclosed to the defense, and the jury never heard that another viable suspect existed or that the case depended entirely on credibility in a trial with no eyewitnesses and no independent evidence.

The detective already had Edward’s home address and phone number in the police report, yet claimed he could not locate or contact him.
The detective relied solely on the accuser’s phone call and never interviewed Edward, never visited his home, and never sought independent corroboration.
The case was closed within hours after viewing a 20-year-old, judicially exempt prior charge, without recognizing its exemption.
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 was never told that Edward disputed the authenticity of the Facebook messages shown to them, nor that the messages lacked metadata, timestamps, deletion logs, or forensic verification.
The jury never heard that the messages were four years old and produced only days before trial, with no opportunity for verification.
The jury saw screenshots and was left to assume they were genuine.

The jury never heard Edward’s account of what happened.
They never heard that Edward was prevented from testifying because the State threatened to introduce an inadmissible, judicially exempt prior charge.
At sentencing, the jury never heard that the prior charge was legally exempt, nonviolent, and age-based, or that mitigation witnesses were instructed not to contradict the State’s narrative.