Jimmy Lee Page Found Innocent in Court yet Still Sits In Prison
Here is a case that is interesting to study.   Chuck Lindell wrote this piece that you should read in its’ entirety, but I have highlighted:
This is the Case of Jimmy Lee page
- Page pleaded guilty to the 1975 killing and received a life sentence. He served 11 years in prison and was paroled eight months before the Nacogdoches stabbings. (not related to the case against him)
- The woman’s body lay in the Nacogdoches woods, partially unclothed and stabbed repeatedly. The 7-year-old boy lay crying in the back seat of a nearby Buick, blood leaking from 20 stab wounds. Nothing connected the white woman and black child beyond blood splatters running from the car to the woods. But nine days later, police made an arrest that linked both brutal attacks to a local man: Jimmy Lee Page, a convicted murderer out on parole.
- jurors were swayed by the lack of evidence against Page and found him not guilty. Afterward, several even shook the defendant’s hand.
- But while everybody else filed out of the courtroom, Page did not go free ” not that day nor any other. Almost 20 years later, he remains Prisoner 258222, still doing time despite the not guilty verdict.
- Now 52, Page is in prison today because state officials revoked his parole ” trumping the jury’s verdict with their own finding of guilt. It’s a common practice. Last year, 91 Texas parolees were returned to prison after being charged with a new crime, even though the charges against them were later dropped or they were acquitted in court.Bound by looser rules than a court of law, parole officials reached their verdict on Page after hearing testimony from only one witness, a police detective who declares Page is “guilty as homemade sin.” In the years since, he was denied parole a dozen times, most recently in early 2006.
- Two months after his arrest, Page was summoned to a parole revocation hearing inside the Nacogdoches County Jail. Detective Lightfoot was the only witness ” Joe was excused on the advice of a psychologist despite vigorous objections by defense lawyer Heath.Afterward, the hearing officer concluded that Page had tried to stab Joe to death and recommended that his parole be revoked. (Charges were not yet filed in Marshall’s death.)
Then as now, parole hearing officers need only determine whether evidence of a crime is probably true ” a far easier burden of proof than in criminal trials, where guilt must be established beyond a reasonable doubt.
Other practices have changed, however, making it likely that Page would be treated differently today.
 Why is he still sitting in prison if he was found innocent of the charges against him? His parole was revoked prior to the charges even being brought against him, is this how the system is set up?
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April 16, 2007 - 02:30 AM on April 16th, 2007
Look boys the rats can send you up the river for anything. This case is normal in the system today we now have almost 3 million inside the bars of hell, and some sould stay on the inside but its a known fact that about 1/3 sould not be in prison so whats new? and maybe someday you! for being to political or saying something about a gang guy or some other race that is looked on as racism, and may God help you all.
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