The swamp in North Carolina where James Jordan's corpse was recovered. Imagine this happening today at the height of his career in the social media age?
The evidence outlined in court documents include:
▪ A sworn statement from the trial’s former jury forewoman who admits she did her own investigation of Jordan’s murder, which violated a judge’s order. Paula Locklear says that during the trial, she visited the South Carolina creekside where the body was found and developed her own theory on how the killing occurred. A Charlotte legal expert says her action amounts to a “tremendous problem” for the original case and could get Green’s conviction overturned.
▪ A defense attorney’s affidavit that appears to show that a state forensics expert has recanted pivotal testimony that she found James Jordan’s blood in his car. Jennifer Elwell, a veteran serologist with the State Bureau of Investigation, is quoted in Mance’s declaration that her tests were far more inconclusive than what she described in court. She also admits withholding results of four inconclusive tests that could have undermined the prosecution’s theory of how Jordan died, the affidavit says.
Green’s attorneys say in their motions that Robeson County District Attorney Johnson Britt intentionally exaggerated Elwell’s findings during the trial and failed to share her notes from the inconclusive tests, which appears to have violated the trial judge’s order on the exchange of evidence.
In another twist, the defense documents also claim that Elwell will say she was ordered by a supervisor to destroy the only known sample of Jordan’s blood shortly after the trial. The documents quote Elwell in saying that in more than 20 years with the state, she had never been asked to dispose of blood evidence from a murder trial before. She did so after testifying that the sample would be preserved “for years and years and years.” Green’s defense attorneys at the time were never told that the evidence had been destroyed, documents say.
New questions raised in slaying case of Michael Jordan’s father | Charlotte Observer
Amajor is a KD stan, you see me clowning him right? I obviously don't need Amajor's approval to post what I post.
