The Case Of North Carolina Vs. Darryl Hunt

Pursing this argument further about the use of informant’s I would now like to observe the credibility of an informant is yet another attribute that leads to the wrongful conviction of the innocent. In the case of North Carolina vs. Darryl Hunt, there were multiple informants used to testify in case. Darryl Hunt who was wrongly convicted at just the age of 19 back in 1984 and spent 19 years of his life locked away after he was accused of the murder of young white beautiful Deborah Sykes a newspaper editor at the time. Although Darryl had DNA testing to prove his innocents, judicial system place the blame on this young, at the time African American male, in order to come to a resolution. Throughout the Darryl Hunt case there were faulty eyewitness testimonies that not only corrupted the

9 and Aug. 10. Upon Hunt being questioned about his whereabouts giving Detective Daulton Crawford’s name. In a next statement she declared that Hunt had stepped out and she found that Hunt returned with mud on his pants, after reviewing the case on Crimestoppers report. She also made the mention that she wish she knew who it was so that she could collect the money for herself. At Hunt’s first trial however she recanted her story. Then later upon being visited by police in the juvenile detention center she said that she was on drugs and was incompetent. Now take a moment to think about your brain on drugs. For many of you that statement may remind you of the original 1987 “This Is Your Brain on Drugs,” an anti-narcotics campaign that features an egg, your brain, being fried by the oils of what is being metaphorically termed as drugs. But really the sad reality behind your brain on any illegal substances has crucial and sometimes even deadly effects. Taking in toxic and harmful drugs can cause a change in the way an individual sends, receives and processes