{"id":10103,"date":"2020-07-09T07:25:07","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T07:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/us\/?p=10103"},"modified":"2020-12-04T09:25:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T09:25:34","slug":"10-facts-about-kris-maharajs-case-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reprieve.org\/us\/2020\/07\/09\/10-facts-about-kris-maharajs-case-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"10 facts about Kris Maharaj\u2019s case in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Kris Maharaj is innocent. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But after 33 years, Kris remains in the South Florida Reception Centre in a dorm of 46 men because innocence isn\u2019t enough to let someone out of prison in the US. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s why we are in court again, fighting for Kris. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are trying to prove that Kris\u2019s original trial was not fair. This should be straightforward \u2013 but Florida State prosecutors are fighting us every step of the way to keep this innocent man locked up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are 10 facts about Kris\u2019s case that everyone \u2013 including the State prosecutors \u2013 need to know:<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n
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  1. Not one of Kris\u2019 6 alibi witnesses was called during his original trial.<\/li>
  2. Prosecutors told the judge in Kris\u2019s original trial that their key witness passed a lie detector test when he had actually failed. Kris passed a lie detector test with a leading expert.<\/li>
  3. The State\u2019s other key witness changed his testimony after prosecutors helped him get off scot-free on a possible life sentence in Jamaica.<\/li>
  4. The first judge in Kris\u2019s case solicited a bribe in exchange for setting him free. Kris spurned this and reported the attempt. The judge was then arrested on the third day of the trial when a law enforcement officer posing as a Colombian cartel member offered a bribe in exchange for bail.<\/li>
  5. The second judge met secretly (and illegally) with the prosecutors to draw up the execution order before even listening to the evidence at the judicial sentencing hearing.<\/li>
  6. A retired DEA special agent pointed out the various \u2018red flags\u2019 in the police investigation \u2013 and agreed that these pointed to the fact that the murders were the work of Colombian drug cartels.<\/li>
  7. The state failed to tell Kris that a senior member of the cartel \u2013 under investigation by law enforcement at the time \u2013 was staying in the opposite room to where the murder of Derrick and Duane Moo Young happened in a Miami hotel, yet the lead detective lied and said he was \u201clegit\u201d.<\/li>
  8. The prosecution presented Derrick & Duane Moo Young as innocent, declaring taxes on $24,000 a year, and withheld from the defence a briefcase full of documents showing they were laundering $5 billion around the Caribbean.<\/li>
  9. Five drug cartel associates, including one of Pablo Escobar\u2019s chief lieutenants, gave statements in 2014 admitting that they \u2013 not Kris \u2013 were responsible for the murders, that Kris had nothing to do with it, and they knew nothing about him.<\/li>
  10. In 2019, Federal Magistrate Judge Alicia M. Otazo-Reyes made a legal finding that Kris had proven his innocence by \u201cclear and convincing evidence<\/em>\u201d and that \u201cno reasonable juror could convict him<\/em>\u201d \u2013 but ruled that this was not sufficient for Kris to be set free.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    If we can\u2019t prove that Kris\u2019s original trial was unfair in court, Florida\u2019s attorney general argues that it does not matter if Kris is innocent. He\u2019ll remain in jail, where he is exposed to the worst effects of COVID-19 because he is 81 years old and in poor health. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    It should be a straightforward argument, shouldn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The judge has already acknowledged his innocence isn\u2019t up for debate. But the Florida prosecutors are determined to keep an innocent man behind bars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    That\u2019s why we are fighting for Kris. Thank you for being a part of this fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    We are trying to prove that Kris\u2019s original trial was not fair. 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