CROSLEY GREEN ATTACKS THE CONSTITUTION AND PROMOTES THE DEATH PENALTY

The Bill of Rights is a federal law. To protect your rights, you must go to federal court, or ask for an enforcement of federal law. We have all seen over and over, how Florida State Governor Ron DeSantis signs laws which are unconstitutional.

The “Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996” limits the ability of state convicts to appeal their convictions and sentences in federal courts. You cannot introduce new evidence in federal court. There is recently an outcry that the Supreme Court has supposedly said an innocent man can be executed in Shinn v. Ramirez, because under AEDPA a federal court cannot accept evidence of his innocence.

The argument is that under federalism, the states have a right to hold trials and punish criminals and the feds do not have jurisdiction. But if the feds don’t have jurisdiction, the constitution does not have jurisdiction. The argument is that states have an interest in various things such as minimizing court costs by not throwing out verdicts, and the feds cannot interfere in that sovereign interest.

But the interest of the state – of the governor, of the prosecutor, of the sheriff – is always against the constitutional rights of the individual. So saying the state interest is supreme, and the feds cannot intervene, is saying the Bill of Rights does not have jurisdiction in state courts. It is saying the federal interest in constitutional rights which are federal law, cannot interfere with the state interest in violating people’s constitutional rights.

This is exactly the argument and body of law that Crosley Green’s petitioners are currently arguing in support of. Crosley Green is arguing that states can give innocent people the death penalty, because federal courts have no jurisdiction to second-guess state court decisions to enforce federal rights.

Crosley’s supporters literally want to remove the Constitutional rights of the accused, to free a murdering rapist who all of 1) Crosley’s sister, 2) the firsthand witness, and 3) a DNA test that Crosley asked for, say he did it.