The Forensic Report That Excluded Him — Dated Before the Pleas

By Mrs. Eileen Hunter — about the author.

The Gene Screen forensic report in State v. Hunter is dated January 30, 2002, and the State received it on February 2, 2002. It excluded Tony Hunter from the crime scene, the victims, and the murder weapon. (R. 229; the forensic record.)

Now place the informants’ outcomes on that timeline. Within weeks of the State receiving its excluding forensic results, Clarence Kennedy pled to a reduced charge with a statutorily forbidden 20-year suspension, and his burglary charge was dismissed. Later that spring, Comanche’s cases resolved with the “bought and paid for” hearing; his habitual-offender bill would be dismissed thirty-nine days after Mr. Hunter’s indictment. The filings argue the sequence speaks for itself: as the physical case collapsed, the informants’ value — and their treatment — rose. (Kennedy file; Comanche file.)

The other half: correlation in a docket is not causation, and no court has found these dispositions were consideration for testimony. The jury, however, never got to ask the question — it never saw the records. (The disclosure claims.)