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  His name is Steve Craig. He knew Lt Oliver, but was almost a friend of another police officer who testified at the trial, Officer Stoddard. Steve Craig made a statement 4 years ago which places a firing shotgun in the vicinity. But Steve Craig was unable to testify at the trial. Strange. At the trial, Officers Stoddard and Parker testified under oath that they never fired a shot. But police records filed immediately after the shooting refers to an "exchange of gunfire" between Workman and police. Strange. And Philip Workman has been wounded: was it impossible to identify the bullet that wounded Philip Workman? Certainly not. But nothing has been done as everybody thought it would certainly be Oliver's gun and bullet. But of course! Steve Craig, more precisely, said in his sworn affidavit that he saw Officer Parker fire a shotgun at Workman. And an article in the Memphis Commercial-Appeal also reports that police say Parker "exchanged shots" with Workman. Why didn't they say anything about it at the trial. Steve Craig also said that the police told him "there was no need to talk about this...unless it was with someone from the department." Asked if it mattered who fired the fatal shot -if Workman was responsible for the situation that led to Oliver's death- the former prosecutor Don Strother says: "That would be for the jury to decide." WHEN, HOW? Police Officers Stoddards and Parker remained mute on that subjet at the trial and no retrial has been made possible, just because at this time, Harold Davis didn't already recant. The 6th US Circuit Court of Appeals did find those allegations "troubling", but decided it wasn't relevant because Craig said he saw Paker shoot only after Lt Oliver had been shot. But why the officers never admitted to firing shots at a man who the government claims had killed a cop and was trying to get away? Interestingly, the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals recently overturned the death sentence of another inmate, Erskine Johnson, because Shelbu County prosecutors withheld evidence that someone other than the defendant fired a shot that grazed an innocent bystander. |
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