Insane Walmart policy allows UMich Innocence Project to prove killer didn't do it

[Bozita]

http://www.freep.com/article/20110203/NEWS06/102030499/U-M-law-clinic-Records-prove-convicted-killer-Mark-Craighead-innocent-after-all?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|p

U-M law clinic:
Records prove
convicted killer
Mark Craighead is
innocent after all

1:18 AM, Feb. 3, 2011
By DAVID ASHENFELTER
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer

Detroit homicide detectives were waiting
for Mark Craighead when he got home
from work and errands in June 2000.

They wanted to question him about the 3-
year-old slaying of his best friend, Chole
Pruett.

Craighead said he asked whether he could
call a lawyer.

They refused, and he reluctantly went with
them.

During the next 17 hours, he said, the cops
squeezed him to admit to killing Pruett. He
wound up signing a vaguely worded
confession that undercut his claim that he
was locked inside a Sam's Club in
Farmington Hills, working the midnight shift
the night Pruett was killed.

A jury convicted him of manslaughter, and
he spent seven years in prison.

Today, law students at the University of
Michigan's Innocence Clinic are battling in
court to exonerate Craighead after finding
Sam's Club phone records that, they say,
prove his innocence.

-snip-

A Sam's Club supervisor testified that
Craighead typically worked the midnight
shift, when the crew was locked inside the
store to prevent theft -- then a store
policy. But the boss couldn't remember
whether Craighead had worked that
particular night.

-snip-

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[Th1onein]

1. "Insane" Walmart policy? Huh?

How is keeping phone records insane? Those records prove this man's innocence. He's already served his time and is out of prison. Do you really think a guilty man, already out of prison, would be asking for a new trial to prove his innocence? He has a lot at stake: his freedom.

I don't get the title of your post.

[jmowreader]

2. The "insane" policy isn't keeping phone records

It's that Walmart was locking employees into the stores overnight to keep them from stealing.

[drm604]

3. I think "Insane" is referring to the policy of locking workers in the building overnight,

not the keeping of phone records.

[lmarcotty]

4. Locking employees in is the insane policy, I think

Phone records, good policy - locking your employees into the building so they can't leave, not so much. Reminiscent of the Triangle Shirt Factory disaster, you know? I think Th1onein agrees with you on the righteousness of the defendant's cause, but was remarking on the irony that the bizarre Walmart employment practice of locking employees in might constitute the evidence necessary to overturn the guy's conviction.

[virgogal]

6. Other stores lock workers in. It happened to my son about 15

years ago.

[leveymg]

5. Wal*Mart's insanity was locking up its employees. The guy was a convict before he was wrongly

convicted.

A hard-time prisoner of Sam's Club.

[May Hamm]

7. I didn't get it either...

It didn't make any sense to me as written but luckily more responses have come in since then and clarified it.