My and my family have been the target of a DA that wants a conviction no matter the cost.  I haven’t followed this story at all but the mistrial leads me to believe they don’t have the evidence they need.  In that case, they have no business going to trial.

Before the first trial, I knew absolutely nothing about this case. I did not add any theories to the case and diligently went through all of the evidence presented during trial. The fact is that the person being tried is innocent until proven guilty and the state failed to present enough evidence to prove his guilt.

Our legal system provides for a trial by a jury of your peers. Otherwise, the vigil ante antics would have had Buzbee hanging from a tree without the right to a trial.

Apparently there was reasonable doubt; otherwise, there would have not been a first mistrial. The burden of proof rests on the shoulders of the prosecution. With no physical evidence, they will have their work cut out for them to try and convince 12 jurors.

I,m pretty sure that the judge told all jurors not to add thier own theory to the evidence that was presented.  You cannot fathom what a person addicted to drugs is capable of doing. Most robberies are carried out by someone dealing with an addiction. I would have to honestly say that you were not a fair juror to BUZBEE or the State of Alabama. (SFAL resident)

Yes, his death was apparently a homicide; however, the medical records were from immediately following the attack. I can understand wanting to receive justice for Mr. Wilson, but I also believe that the Buzbee’s also deserve justice.

I personally believe that a “crack head” and someone so high on drugs would not have been capable of pulling of such an elaborate scheme in such a very miniscule amount of time and leave NO evidence at the scene or take any with him.

The prosecution needs to reexamine its case and I believe that the lack of evidence speaks for itself. The crime in itself appears to be more of a crime of passion due to leaving more money behind than they took. It appears to be more of a robbery to cover up a crime rather than a crime to cover up a robbery.

I believe an autopsy was done and his death was ruled a homicide, because he robbed and assaulted. I really don’t understand the big deal about the victims medical records four months later.

The victim never would have been in the hospital if he was not struck down by a crack head coward.

H1,
On Sunday, August 16, 2009, Mobile Press published the following in its paper “A new issue was argued Friday, when Pylant objected to Reid’s order allowing Beck to obtain medical records from Wilson’s initial treatment at the University of South Alabama Medical Center.

Reid didn’t change his ruling, which provided Beck the “operative report for the surgery removing portions of (Wilson’s) temporal lobe” and a “pathology report on the tissue removed.”

The judge allowed the defense access to those records on August 14. In your post, you stated that the records were available to the defense for 2 years, I am sorry, but I beg to differ and according to the newspaper, your statement is in error. The expert witness the defense wanted to testify was in reference to those records the defense only had access to for a week.

To SFALresident

You have a right to your opinion and they are deeply rooted, but I am glad you were not the only juror. Now that the defense say that have a Doctor to prove BUZBEE’s innocence, why would the prosecution proceed to try a so-called innocent man without looking at what the defense has. If it is what BECK says it is then BUZBEE probably will be set free. This defense attorney is as crooked as the road and he will try to win at all cost. The medical records were in possession for the last two years and he did not use them during your jury term? This so-called new evidence is a joke and nothing but a delay by the defense, another smoke screen. P.S. thank GOD that everyone has a right to an opinion.

The DA’s objection today to obtain the mistrial was regarding the defenses medical examiner report that the defense just received the information on last week in a ruling from the judge. The State had 2 medical experts on the stand in the last trial and they would have had 3 weeks before the defense began their case.

My question is, if the defense got results in a week, why is it going to take so long to find someone to refute it with 2 medical experts already on the State’s team? Is it possible that it will take a LONG time to find someone to refute the report because the report exhonorates Buzbee?

Still curious in Spanish Fort. . . .

I thought justice was backwards in MS….It appears to me that this is a politically driven case where the DA’s office has to convict SOMEONE for this crime. Did this DA come from MS????  Scary!!  I would think that in this day and age that DNA and fingerprint evidence that excludes the current accused would be enough to exonerate this man.  How long exactly does the current DA administration plan to detain this man with so little evidence against him?

You would not believe this trial! What they were trying to use against Buzbee could have convicted 1/2 of the Spanish Fort community. My cell records even placed ME in the same triangulated cell area.

They should let Eric out of jail. This is a gross miscarriage of justice.