I watched the Stallings case from 1991 during which she was persecuted for supposedly poisoning her baby.
She was eventually released, however, what the judge and persecutor did to her led me to feel a lot of anger toward them.
The judge deliberately excluded exculpable evidence by barring testimony by true medical professionals in favor of those paid by the persecution which would have shown that the death was due to a syndrome and NOT by her action.
The judge clearly knew this evidence would have created more than a reasonable doubt and excluded it to deliberately favor the persecution.
Secondly, the persecutor continued his obtuseness, even after she was rightfully released. He was interviewed during the show and the "press conference" was also shown.
His 'apology' was nothing but a self-serving line of ----.
I wonder if the Stallings were compensated for being persecuted by this court from 1930's Europe.
I believe that these defects in the "system", i.e. persecutors such as this one, need to be eliminated from being in a position to do these things in this way to anyone of us who is CLEARLY INNOCENT. Unfortunately, this goes on time and time again.
BTW-I can spell "prosecutor" and I am NOT laughing.

I watched the rerun today as well...(I've seen it a couple times before too) and I couldn't agree more with everything you stated.

Things like this go on too much. Sometimes officers or judges don't care about evidence, they just want to lock up the first person they think of so they can look impressive and get that pay check. What a joke.

One of the biggest things that made me angry about this case is that police automatically came to the conclusion that Patty must have poisioned Ryan because she was left alone with him for a couple minutes. So how come it took the baby a full 3 1/2 days before he got sick enough to be considered at risk from his parents? Was a poison made that takes almost 4 days to kill a person that we don't know about? Sheesh. It's kind of scary that we have authorities like this in the world that are REALLY that stupid.

And every time I look at the update with the public "apology" to the Stalling's, I can't help but roll my eyes. We already have stupid criminals and kidnappers in the world, do we really have to have stupid autorities as well? Shake my head in disbelief.

I don't think it's so much stupidity as evil and deliberate on their part.
How many times do we see the same things said and done by these types all over the country?
It as bad here in "free" America as it is in many other parts of the world.
Haven't you ever gone to court on something as simple as a traffic ticket and heard the cop LIE on the stand?
I sure have.
I've got a friend who is an investigator for the local DA. You should hear some of the horror stories he tells me.

I wonder whatever became of the Stallings'. I hope they came out ok. I've looked a couple of places to find out but, as with a lot of these things, we don't know if they've healed from this butchery.
BTW-Do you watch things like forensics, etc? I read a lot of true crime also.
Of course, that's when I can't golf or fish.lol

Here's a link to an article I found about the Stallings case....

http://www.msbp.com/stlouis.htm