Now I have heard it all (well, almost - but this is just plain freakin stupid)

[The Straight Story]

Inexplicable

According to police, Derrick House and another man planned to kill four people in a 1985 Chicago drug hit and needed a stranger to knock on the door so that House and his companion could gain entry. They paid teenager Charles Green $25 to do that, and House completed the mission. Green was convicted and imprisoned for "participating" in the murder. House got the death penalty, but as a result of legal challenges, was recently released. House's companion was never convicted. Thus, the only one of the three still in prison 22 years later is the one who just knocked on the door. In August, a judge is scheduled to hear Green's latest petition for a new trial.


http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html

'85 murder case resurfaces

Victims' relatives to follow hearing of man found guilty of knocking on a door

By Maurice Possley | Tribune staff reporter
August 2, 2007



GLENDALE, Ariz. - With a judge poised to rule Thursday on whether Charles Green is entitled to a new sentencing hearing, or perhaps a new trial on charges of participating in a quadruple murder in 1985, sympathy and support for the only man still in prison for the crime has emerged from two unexpected quarters.

Green was 16 when police accused him of taking $25 to knock on the door of a West Side drug house, allowing two rival drug dealers to gain entrance and commit the murders. As the Tribune reported last month, one of those men was never tried and the other was freed in a plea deal after serving time.

Green, who is serving life in prison, says that he is innocent and that his youth worked against him in the appeals process.

Among those with a keen interest in Thursday's hearing are Roberta Brooks, the mother of murder victims Kim and Yvonne Brooks, as well as other family members. Now living in Glendale, they were stunned to learn that Derrick House, the other man convicted of the murders, was released from prison and that Green was seeking a new trial.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-green_02aug02,1,2031593.story

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Yeah it is, but it happens all the time...

guys driving the getaway car in a shooting getting the DP because everyone else copped a plea, guys who made a phone call getting the max because everyone else copped a plea...

If you're "last in line" you're screwed. Somebody's gotta pay for the crime, and you're it.

[countmyvote4real]

2. Amerika doesn't like black people. n/t

[rocktivity]

3. If he took the money, and he knew WHY he was taking the money, he's guilty

whether his partner weasels out of it or not. The "wheel man" in a bank robbery doesn't get charged or punished less just because he kept the motor running while he partners actually pulled the "caper."

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