Before Dennis brown was convicted, he was a normal teenage boy. At the time, he was taking care of his blind father that was very weak and sick. He also has a learning dissability that came up at court. He dropped out of school and only had an education to the 9th grade (exoneree testimony). The grades us usually got were C's, D's, and F's. The reason his learning dissability came up, is when they were questioning him about the day of the rape and he answered with odd replies such as the perpetrator came through the window except the door. In september1984, a man broke into the victum of the crimes house. The victim was watching tv on the couch when the man came to her and threatened her with a knife. With no other way out, the man sexually …show more content…
Dennis brown at the time got $30 from his bother. He wanted to buy a dog with the money. On the day of September 1984, Brown stated that he went to Francis Brufielc to watch TV and listen to the radio. Normal teenage stuff of the time. After he left, he went back to his own house with his dad, but no one saw him in the road going back (exoneree testimony). On novermber 5th, Brown was pulled over by a police officer and was asked to be a stand in for a police line up case. A female police officer took him back to the shareffs station to put orange on so he can stand in. The victim identified him as the perpertrator who raped her. After the line up four days later, Dennis Brown was taken to jail and accused him of rape. "I denied the perpetrator as him, then was taken to a holding cell" (exoneree …show more content…
He didn’t have a lawer or anything at the time. Montgomery, started asking brown where he was the night of septermber 19th the day of the rape. He asked him lots of questions but brown kept on denying everything he knew about the victum. Montgomery got really frustrated, then pulled a knife out and threatened brown to sign papers. Brown didn’t know at the time, but he singend a confession letter that he did rape the women against his will. The DNA evedence was also very flaued in this case. There was a failer to infom the jury that 100% of the male population could have been included and that non coild be excuded is misleading. The DNA sample could have been mixed wit the victums own DNA and the perp and dessis brown also has the same l=blood type (bwrown vs miller). They aslo broke many rules on the topic of DNA. Miller, the lab tech who analyzed browns nda broke many ethics rules that were plain wrong. He gave verbal confirmation that the resuts were positive withot sighning any papers "verbal confirmation was in violation of police porcedure" (brown vs miller). Police officers arrested brown and he was charged with aggravated rape, addravated burgurlary and aggraveted chrimes agains