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This 10 page paper outlines the two trials. In the Julie Rae Harper case, there had been speculation that perhaps Tommy Lynn Sells murdered Julie's son, Joel Kirkpatrick. This paper focuses on defense strategy. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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novels but he recently embarked on a project demonstrating that sometimes, in real life, people are wrongly convicted. His recent work is entitled The Innocent Man. There was also a
television series that focused on the Innocence Project, which depicted a team that uncovers new evidence when it is thought that someone sits on death row for the wrong reasons.
Indeed, witnesses lie, police do shoddy work and juries make mistakes. In one case, a mother was convicted of killing her own child while he slept, purportedly because she was
involved in a custody battle with her husband. The prosecutor never came up with a theory as to what happened that night, only that there was no one else who
could have done the deed. Julie Rae Harper, with a local attorney in tow, would be easily convicted, but then, a serial murderer began to talk about his exploits. As
it turns out, there had been speculation that perhaps Tommy Lynn Sells murdered Julies son, Joel Kirkpatrick. While theories would come to the surface, it would not be until a
twist of fate allowed the release of Harper and the opportunity for a new trial, that she would finally be exonerated. II. The Julie Rae Harper Trials
The Julie Rae Harper case made headlines. A mother had seemingly concocted a story about an intruder, but the jury did not believe that. Rather, they convicted her
of murdering her son while he slept as she was involved in a custody situation. As in other cases where an intruder is blamed-such as the Jeffrey McDonald case-many times,
the witnesses are not believed. Often, it is assumed that a member close to the case is the real killer. In this case, that is how the first trial went,
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