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Brandon Moon Case Summary

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This court case is about Brandon Moon who got accused falsely on three different counts of aggravated sexual assault. The case is a confusing one, saying that nothing adds up with the couple different sides of this particular case. On one side, where you have Brandon’s girlfriend, with Brandon stating that he was talking with her, and was going to meet up with her. But, on the other hand there were three women that said Brandon Moon was their attacker, but in the end, I guess that the four witnesses beats two of them. Brandon Moon supposedly had done everything he got accused of, while he was talking with his girlfriend on the phone at that specific time, and she testified in the court about the conversation they had on the phone. She …show more content…

After he had left, she went to the local store in her son's robe, and called the police station. When she went to the police station the next day, and helped create a composite drawing of the man who attacked her. The police made a line of men that fit the description that she had described of her attacker, and two other women's attackers that had been of the same description, with similar cases, one of the men being Brandon Moon. They all identified that Brandon Moon was the closest to the description, but they weren’t sure if it was him or not, though, the police got a warrant anyways, and Brandon had been arrested on May 1, 1987. The woman from El Paso and the three other women who went, took Brandon Moon to court, and accused him on three counts of aggravated sexual assault and sentenced him to seventy five years in …show more content…

More things went wrong soon after, when there was false, and misleading forensic evidence from the crime scene. Most of the blame came from the witnesses saying that Brandon was actually the one who did it, maybe just to make them feel better about themselves, but in all honesty he actually didn’t do it. Brandon Moon spent seventeen years in prison out of seventy-five, for three counts of aggravated sexual assault that he did not commit. But, much to people’s belief, Brandon Moon was not executed, he was let out of prison seventeen years later. Only after test results finally proved he was

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