Where there is smoke; there is a smoke machine.

Where there is smoke, there is a smoke generator machine, particularly in Hollywood.

Jane Doe 2 a/k/a Jenna T a/k/a Jenna Thompson:

>>Thompson described her story to People,
Strange how these lice always talk to the media, not the police or lawyer or respectable press.
>> in which she was a 17-year-old from Maryland who visited a New York City modeling agency in 1988.
>>There, she said, she was sent to meet Cosby during the height of his fame on ”The Cosby Show.”
Oh, a powerful modeling agency it must be to risk sending a 17 year old girl out. What records exist of this agency?
>> His interest in her developed
Developed?? Over time?
>>into uncomfortable advances by Cosby, People reported Thompson as saying.
Advances? (Plural)! She went back for more?
>> She visited his home during a last encounter in the late 1980s.
Can't be more specific, can you? I would think she would remember the date.
As well as also remembering a reason she went to man's home instead of his office.
>> Cosby gave her $700 upon her departure.
In which bank did she deposit the money? Surely she would remember that. Seventeen year old boys who get a windfall, blow it in a bar, but seventeen year old girls bank it.
Did she give the agency their ten percent?
Or did she rip off the agency thereby revealing her proclivity for crime and deception?

Shirley McKie receives apology ...Public receives pablum!

Shirley McKie received a brief, pro-forma apology as the Forensic Services and Strathclyde police bask in whitewash. The official party line is now that fingerprint comparisons are merely the opinions of scientists and scientists are prone to disputes and conflicting opinions innocent of any underlying improper motivations.

The truth is simple.

Detective Constable Shirley McKie never entered the premises she had been guarding and therefore knew she could not have left her fingerprint on the jamb of the bedroom doorway. Her arrest and prosecution was almost certainly police retaliation for her having informed the defense lawyer of probable evidence contamination in a case that was embarrassing to the Strathclyde police. This was undoubtedly viewed by the police as a treasonous act of betrayal.

As to the two prints, it is now and always has been perfectly clear to anyone with the slightest training and experience in fingerprint examination that the impression made on Shirley McKie's official index card and the impression taken from the door jamb at the crime scene could not possibly have been made by the same finger. There is no valid basis for making any contrary claim and any expert who makes such a contrary claim does indeed do so on a basis other than a regard for the truthful reporting of his interpretations.

A photograph of Mike Tyson, a black male boxer, and a photograph of Paris Hilton, a white female media twit, bear several points of similarity but no matter how many such points of similarity are considered or what weight they are given no one would ever say that there is a forensic "match". And any Scottish inquiry that soft-pedals their questioning on such a matter does the Scottish public no good.

Shirley McKie was dragged thru the courts and railroaded into the poorhouse and the nuthouse by the Strathclyde Constabulary. She never entered the premises, she never had sex on the premises, she never lied about the case at all.

There is no question that the Shirley McKie case was a political one right from the start. As four Scottish experts testified that Shirley McKie had left the crime scene print there were five Scottish experts who were prevented from testifying that the crime scene print was not made by Shirley McKie and that any expert opinions to the contrary were clearly unsupportable. When the issue became an international one that extended to the entire fingerprint examination field, hordes of experts proclaimed that the crime scene print was definitely not from Shirley McKie. Many experts were also willing to add that anyone expressing an opinion that the crime scene print was that of Shirley McKie were not competent examiners.

Ian McKie: "We now have 13 experts proved to have made two misidentifications in the one case because of human error and frailty which they were able to sustain for nearly 14 years and in some cases still sustain. Throughout these years they were given countless opportunities to right the wrongs and accept their mistakes. Because of human error and despite having the most up to date identification tools available they were unable to do this and we must conclude innocently persisted with their provably flawed conclusions.

That not all these experts came from the same jurisdiction where it could be argued that the same culture, procedures and supervisory structures were in place only goes to reinforce the seriousness of the challenge fingerprinting faces from this report. We must assume that some of these conclusions were independently reached and did not result from some conspiracy, collective cultural arrogance or flawed organisational procedures. These were ordinary experts, many with a proven track record of excellence, who were able to get it wrong and persist in their erroneous conclusions."

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.

48Hours will be airing an updated story in March.