outraged hundreds of thousands of people who said they feared an innocent man was being put to death, based on his defense attorneys' assertion that witnesses who had identified Davis in court as a killer two decades ago had tried years later to take it all back. Dorothy Ferrell was one of those witnesses.
Date: Sep 27, 2011
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
The Troy Davis Case Fuels Debate on Reliability of Eyewitnesses
that I should say that Troy Davis was the one who shot the officer like the other witness [sic] had... I felt like I was just following the rest of the witnesses," said Dorothy Ferrell, another witness in the case. "I also felt like I had to cooperate with the officer because of my being on parole..
One witness, Dorothy Ferrell, for example, stated in a 2000 affidavit: "I told the detective that Troy Davis was the shooter, even though the truth was that I didn't know who shot the officer." She said she lied because she felt susceptible to police bullying, given that she was on parole for a shop