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THE PERSECUTION OF OFFICER MICHAEL CHAPEL

A CORRUPT GEORGIA COUNTY FRAMES ITS

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THE CASE IN PICTURES

(The easiest way to understand this very complicated case.)

DATELINE

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GEORGIA HABEAS

FEDERAL HABEAS

RAINCOAT HEARING

MOTION TO RETEST  (NEW)

JUROR AFFIDAVIT

TRIAL

TESTIMONY
CONTACT INFORMATION

 

ANALYSES

 

The Chapel Story

 

The Thompson Story

 

The Driver Witnesses

 

The Photo lineups

 

The Crime Scene

 

The Police Unit

 

The Raincoat

 

USAGE TIPS

 

Stone Testimony

 

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NEW FINDINGS

Blood Spatter on Driver's Door Photo Restored

The Police Fired Shot 2 Into Passenger Seat

Bullet from Shot 2 Different than Shot 1

Eyewitness Unable to ID Chapel Photo in Court

On the morning of April 16, 1993, Emogene Thompson, a 51-year-old grandmother was found dead of gunshot wounds in her automobile in the driveway of the Gwinnco Muffler Shop in Sugar Hill, Georgia. One week later, Officer Michael Chapel, Gwinnett County’s highly decorated; top-cop was arrested for her murder. Chapel was tried, convicted and sentenced to two life terms plus five years for Emogene Thompson’s murder. All else we think we know about this bizarre case is pure fantasy.

 

Officer Chapel was denied bail on continuingly flimsy technicalities, and, even though the Gwinnett County Police and District Attorney knew at the time Chapel to be innocent, they determined to convict him. They used the delay between his arrest and trial to—plant evidence in his patrol car—to alter photographic evidence of the crime scene—to secure classic hearsay evidence from the victim’s friends—to manipulate the testimony of honest witnesses—and to secure the perjured testimony of a number of key police officers and other state and county officials—and the cooperation of members of the Gwinnett County legal establishment, including even Chapel’s court appointed attorney Johnny Moore.

 

When the Georgia Supreme Court denied his motion for a new trial, the so-called legal professionals deserted Michael Chapel. An alternate juror at his trial who believed in Chapel’s innocence contacted him in January of 2000 and together they began to research his case.  The truth about the trial and the subsequent cover-up slowly began to emerge. As the conspiracy began to unfold the truth flowed more quickly until it became a torrent. As more and more of the issues in this case became untangled and integrated into the whole, the issues and the case itself became crystal clear as all the pieces fell neatly into place.

 

The heart of the State’s case was the victim’s DNA found in Chapel’s police cruiser that the State claimed could only possibly result from Emogene Thompson’s still missing and bloody purse being transferred from her car to his cruiser after her murder. Six months after the trial, the purse was found buried in he woods behind Thompson’s trailer home. The Police found no blood or fingerprints on the purse. See the video clips above and “Purse Luminoled” and “Purse Recovery”  under “FORENSICS” to the right.

 

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FORENSICS

Autopsy Exam

Gbi List 9-24-93

Gbi List 11-15-94

Crime Scene Report

Purse Recovery

Purse Luminoled

Postmortem

Latent Prints

Gaensslen Report

EXPERT TESTIMONY

Brian Frist, ME  2

Kelly Fite, GBI

Jennifer Wilson, GBI

Keith Goff, GBI  2

George Herrin, Jr, GBI  2

Jung Choi, DW  2

Martin Shapiro, DW

Sydny S. Kushner, PW

Danny Porter, Closing