Kick them when they are down.

Ryan Ferguson's Habeas Corpus petition was filed recently and in addition to assertions about invalid testimony there were direct accusations that co-worker Boyd was in fact guilty of the crime.

This has resulted in such comments as: But to now drag Michael Boyd into the tarnishing, destructive spotlight of suspicion in a slaying more than five years after the fact smacks of desperation and flailing, tossing anything against the wall that might stick.

It should be known however that he was the last person known to have seen the victim. He is a big strong man and much more likely to attack the hulking victim than a slightly built youth of seventeen. He is likely to be more able to attack without warning since the victim would not be on guard and might well have his back turned to his assailant. Boyd lied several times about the vehicle he was using that night and where he parked it. He also appears to have altered the paperwork on the vehicle after the crime and to have subsequently disposed of the vehicle.

Although the injuries were alleged by the prosecution to be the result of a tire iron the petition suggests the cranial injuries were not the result of an implement being wielded against the victim but were instead the result of the victim's head being repeated struck against the wheel hub of the co-worker's car.

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