My name is Joseph Brown. I was convicted in (unclear) death for the murder of Martha Day that happened in 1992 in Memphis, Mississippi. Rachel Walker murdered Martha Day, August 8, 1992. Rachel Walker murdered Moses Nick Green, August 6, 1992. Officer William Mitchell, Robert Dawson, and Willoughby Jones, who led this investigation, were all having sex with Rachel during this time period in 1992, and that’s who did this investigation.
I have proclaimed my innocence for 31 years, and I still claim my innocence today. And, I wanted to talk about — I was sentenced on March of 1994, March 14th, 1994. Within four years, the state of Mississippi tried to murder me on March 17, 1998. As of this date that time is the fastest time on the record in Mississippi, from trial until someone is sent to the death chamber at Unit 17 here in Parchman, Mississippi. And since then, for the last 27 years, the state of Mississippi prosecutors have been pretty much stalling me around on this case; pretty much making me sit here on death row for the last 17 years, because they haven’t, they don’t have what they claim to have in the beginning, and the state court is trying to find these absurd reasons to justify their prosecutors in the state of Mississippi.
Because I presented factual affidavits from people who were there and having sex with these officers at the same time Rachel Walker was going, these judges on the Mississippi Supreme Court, they simply ignored these things. But, the main thing I want to talk about is the gun inside this case that Willoughby Jones got from the bar owner, that he gave to Robert Dawson inside of the police station. Robert Dawson took this gun outside of the police station and placed it in his car, and kept it for 24 hours before he turned it over to the investigative technician, Thomas McGee. And, during the examination of this gun, Floyd Newman said he put bullets and guns separately in a brown paper bag. Robert Dawson claimed when he got the gun, he had to take the bullets out because he had to push them out of the cylinder and William Mitchell, Thomas McGehee did gunshot residues on two different people at two different times, yet their investigation showed that they could not process these gun residues because William Mitchell had labeled both kits with the same name, and that doesn’t make sense because William Mitchell has no business doing gunshot residue because, according to him at trial, he did no part of his investigation, as far as legwork, you understand.
So, like I said, for the last 31 years, man, I’m just confused, man. Yeah, I don’t understand this thing. I don’t understand how nine judges could look at the documentation that I put before them. I don’t see how they could look at an hour and a forty minute video of a capital murder suspect undoing her own handcuffs in front of detectives, and I can’t understand how they can have such a casual relationship inside of this video, and these nine judges not find a problem with this situation here and still vote against me, nine zero. So, I want to put it out there because I want people to know that since 2017 to 2020, three men have left Mississippi death row, have been exonerated, and Mississippi media has had no input about these three men leaving death row. It has not had any input about who may be on Mississippi death row that is going through these things.
So, I just want to put the word out there. I just want to find someone out there in the world that would take Mississippi seriously about what Mississippi is doing as far as them murdering people, and potentially murdering innocent people, such as myself, because this Mississippi state court has unambiguously sided with prosecutors in the state of Mississippi, and they have no qualms in finding excuses to justify their reasoning for denying me on my petition.
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