Tunnel Vision: Trial & Error
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.99 (724 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1892941783 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 228 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
still guilty An interesting book because of its author; a convicted murderer. Marshall and his late sister did a good job with the writing, but fail to answer too many questions. Why Marshall spent thousands supposedly hiring private investigators from Louisiana to check on missing money in his Harrah's account, something which is central to the story, is never really cleared up. Nor does he address why even his two eldest sons concluded that he was guilty -- not by itself proof of guilt, but worth wondering about. As literature and as debate material, ultimately disappointing.. A liar, but not a particularly good liar. I read Tunnel Vision because I wanted to hear Robert O Marshall's side of the story. I concluded that only the most hard-core of the wrongly convicted junkies could believe his version of this saga. It is simply implausible, incredible and over the top.First of all, each page drips with Marshall's unabashed narcissism. He's the guy who's the best at everything. The best tennis player, the best blackjack player, the best skier. All the hot women want him. He writes this story like some kind of prisoners fantasy of the high life he once lived. But after reading the book, I came away with a new theor. "A pathetic wife killer's lies" according to Scott Spencer. A sorry attempt to explain how he was "framed" for his wifes murder. Bad lawyers, lying cops, corrupt legal system. Yeah right! He is guilty as sin and deserves to be right where he is. This book is a waste.
The decision to reverse Marshall's death sentence was upheld by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals on November 2, 2005." "In the stark language of the court," writes Seamus McGraw in JUSTICE DELAYED: THE ROBERT MARSHALL STORY (Crime Library), Judge Irenas declared that Marshall's lawyer had failed to meet the standards expected of 'competent counsel.'NJN (NJ public television) received the Philadelphia Press Association's Television Feature Award on June 25, 2004, for its documentary "Due Process: The Strange Case of Bobby Cumber", produced by Sandra King, which explores Bobby Cumber's conviction for his role in this case and the judge's statement that 'he would have applied a drastically shorter sentence were it not for the demands
Marshall still receives letters saying that outside observers feel there were too many loose ends on his case, that his true story has not yet been told, and that Blind Faith made no sense.Tunnel Vision is his response. Robert Marshall notes that Joe McGinniss, the writer who caricatured him in Blind Faith, also wrote Fatal Vision -- a book that was successfully rebutted, in 1996, in Fatal Justi
In the end, though, only Marshall was convicted on the strength of McInerney's compromised testimony, while the triggerman was acquitted; his conviction was upheld on appeal. For his impending final appeals, Marshall's public defenders have prepared an impressive document demonstrating that "the entire trial was a travesty of justice." While Marshall may or may not be innocent, one concludes that flawed evidence and police misconduct so compromised his trial that the death penalty was inappropriate. They found that Marshall had paid a shady ex-deputy sheriff from Louisiana, whom Marshall calls McInerney, to find out if Maria was investigating his affa