Megan Williams recants story! I KNEW it!

[Bob Campbell]

Gee Dave, it could have been worse, they could have talked to you.
I know I wasn't the first to think it, just the first to post it.

[Dave Allen]

No, because they can't handle the truth.

They really should put that line in a movie sometime.

[CoolBreeze]

What was stated in the Columbus interview:

Williams lied in 2007 because she wanted to get back at a boyfriend who had beaten her, her attorney, Byron L. Potts, said Wednesday at a news conference in his Columbus office.

Williams no longer wants to live a lie, Potts said.

"She told me the only thing not self-inflicted were the bruises on her face," Potts said.

Williams, 22, who now lives with a caregiver in Columbus, was in the office with Potts, but she did not appear before reporters.

"She is recanting the entire incident. She says it did not happen, and she's scared," Potts said.

Potts said that Brewster's son, Bobby, was the boyfriend who had beaten Williams and that she had stabbed herself with a straight razor to help embellish the story of being tortured.

Potts urged prosecutors in West Virginia to re-evaluate the case and he said that Williams wants people convicted to be released from prison.

Brian Abraham, the former Logan County prosecutor who pursued the cases, said authorities realized early in the investigation that they could not rely on statements from Williams, who tended to embellish and exaggerate details. Instead, he said, the seven defendants were convicted on their own statements and physical evidence.

Potts said he did not know why the defendants have pleaded guilty to something they did not do.

He said Williams is aware that she could face legal consequences for fabricating the story and that he wants to have her psychologically evaluated. He said Williams told him certain people were controlling her and influencing her during the case. He did not elaborate.

In a January interview with The Call & Post, a black newspaper in Cleveland, Williams acknowledged she had been mistreated but said her mother made her embellish the story for exposure and financial gain. Williams told the newspaper that she was afraid of her mother, who knew some of the defendants.

Sharpton has sent a letter to Logan County prosecutor John Bennett asking him to look into the new claims.

"If Ms. Williams has, in fact, fabricated her story, then I urge your office to vindicate any wrongfully convicted individuals," Sharpton wrote.

[CoolBreeze]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAAGIgqXYt8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtWoE3bfMuc

[genlock]

News media types are trained to seek out the "toothless locals".
One of those interviews could be the big break that takes them
out of this area and back to civilization.

[AmpedNow]

Potts said he did not know why the defendants have pleaded guilty to something they did not do.

This is what's most baffling... It's one thing to have some mental case fabricate a big, messy story -- even though someone knew exactly what elements to mix into the story that would draw the national media like a moth to a streetlight: hate crimes, racism and rednecks -- but, what was in it for the accused, besides a rap sheet and a tarnished reputation?

This makes no sense.

[Bob Campbell]

Well, it did get them on tv and that's pretty important.

[genlock]

The accused were convinced that they had no defense against the charges.
They might have been too stoned to realize they had not committed the crimes.
They have a more healthy, better life in prison.
None of them appeared to be much brighter than Megan but now they will be rich
from all the lawsuit money, appearances on Oprah and all the talk shows and book deals.
Remember, you do not have to be able to read and write to publish your own book.
Megan will not be punished as she is retarded, Her mother is dead.
Can we somehow claim these people are from Lincoln County?