Simon face told all after he read about the 4 year old girl. I almost saw him thinking that he'll handcuff his kids in radiator so they can't go out, and became victims. Lol, ik you have a sick sense of humor Simon, but radiator?? That's little weird. Lol
This brings up an interesting idea, why not make police who knowingly do this stuff legally accomplices after the fact concidering they willfully helped the guilty parties get away with their crimes by framing innocent people.
Kevin!!! Lol… “I guess it wasn’t missing it was all over the ground”…terrible, but watching Simons face realizing what he’s saying after he interrupted himself …. 🙏
In the small rural southern community I grew up in an African American man was found drowned wrapped in logging chain. The sheriff ruled the man had stolen more chain than he could swim with.
Who in their right mind would move from Africa to a southern state in America? At least when he was as in Africa he didn’t have to deal with shiny things being such a temptation.
Thank you for posting a BB today Simon!!! I just had a surgery on Tuesday and I've been having a lot of complications, from the anesthesia so seeing my favorite YT channel post a video makes my miserable day into a tolerable one. ❤ Edit: Holy crap. You guys sure you posted this video on the right channel? Was looking to laugh not watch a casual criminalist episode lol.
Yeah, this is the channel I watch after a hard day. I don't expect every BB episode to be sunshine and rainbows, but it should be funny, even if it's dark humor. This was just depressing.
Lol simon doesn't give a s**t about his viewers, only the ad revinue. Why do you think he stopped pushing merch as much? My main thing is how often he talks about his kids. Like, c'mon. That's gonna come back to haunt them in middle school. "My two year old just finished toilet training and oh my god... it felt like it took forever..."
@@iainballas the likelihood that any elementary or middle school kids would set aside enough of their attention to even listen to these videos seems pretty low. There are also much worse things he could be saying about his kids, and to the degree that it trivializes what he does talk about.
The emotions that come from having reclaimed your innocence, being released from the prison you were supposed to grow old and die in, AND walking out to "Sorry that was our bad" ( except way better because instead of useless words, it's millions of dollars) must be wild. I don't even know t what feelings would accompany that
I imagine it would be a very bittersweet feeling. It probably depends on the person, but I'd feel vindicated that I was finally proven right, but bitter that no one listened
I think "way better" is not really honest. It's barely a drop for having one's life stolen and future destroyed. It's be better to say "not even a start". I don't think you can grasp what kind of torture the American prison system is. Nor how marginalizing it is to be a former prisoner.
There is at least four systems that I can see. Yet... well, your core reasoning isn't wrong because so much in America follows what you are highlighting. The four I see: Politicians can do insider trading, legally, because they literally have different rules.... The wealthy can do things differently because they can slow the system down, painfully so.... Normal individuals get a window-dressed version so they don't see what is really happening.... The poor, oh... we are not allowed to talk about that because it is akin to 'critical race theory!'
Let's not forget that when innocent people are compensated for their lost years and the trauma they experienced: A) No amount of money will ever EVER make up for it. B) The money used to compensate them is paid by citizens. C) All involved (judges, attorneys, police, etc.) are almost never punished or held accountable for their actions.
When a conviction was obtained through illegal means like coercion (lying shouldn’t be allowed), those who do it should get sentences twice as long as those they helped wrongly send to jail.
@@Author.Noelle.Alexandria That would take an impartial investigation to uncover. Many countries do have a non-police agency that investigates the police whenever there's doubt. In the USA investigations like that are almost always done by the police department that is being investigated, for some unfathomable reason they usually find no evidence of any wrongdoing.
Simon got that intuition When you hear the noise you don't go check it out you turn the other way. His intuition was like "this is the beginning of a horror movie, No I will not check your bag"
In the late 60's, my older brother's best friend was arrested for murder. He was hanging out with another guy that had an arrest record. And old man that lived near the guy was horrifically beaten and murdered. The police immediately went to arrest him, just in case he was involved. My brother's friend was there, so they arrested him, too. The police had found a 14 year old girl at the scene. She had prior arrests for drug possession and prostitution. Rather than seeing her as a potential murderer, the police and DA claimed she was simply a witness. When asked why she was there, she stated that the old man owed her money. She was asked if she had seen the two boys in the house at the time of the murder. She said she had seen them murder the old man. Afterwards, she said she asked the boys to give her the money in the man's possession and they did. She had the blood soaked money on her person! The jury still found the boys guilty. My brother's friend was executed. I was little at the time, so I didn't remember much, but I was curious. I googled his name and got the story. Turns out the case is now in a textbook about corruption in the legal system. In case you're curious, his name was Craig Chandler. RIP, Craig. You were a nice kid.
🫂 this is so tragic and so sad. Also… for a 14 year old to have to sell her body for drugs at such a young age… there was something very very wrong in this girl’s childhood for sure, which is also sad and tragic.
Fuckin' hell thats nuts... did nobody think that the drugged out kid with the blood soaked money might be the killer!? People's bleeding hearts get in the way of using their damned heads way too often.
That's just removing it from the record. Vacated is to actually unwind time from a legal standpoint. Doesn't even require expungement. And a person who is guilty, does time, and successfully petitions to have their record expunged is a thing. But it doesn't undo the conviction. Vacated does however.
This one got crazy but on the plus side I’m glad to see the blaze boys and writers of the blazement are getting proper living condition facilities including access to showers I guess hiring a blazement lawyer backfired a bit on Simon but worked out for the basement staff in the end… 😂
Simon, I'm going to blow your mind. Finding proof that exonerates you is not enough to grant an appeal or retrial in America. A case just a few years back; a man's family paid to have DNA evidence tested which proved that it wasn't the man convicted who had done it. He filed an appeal. The appeal was denied because it wasn't filed within a certain time frame. A reporter interviewed the DA or judge (I can't remember) on the street and asked why he would deny an innocent person an appeal? He got this big shitty grin on his face and said because he didn't file in time. The reporter asked him "Doesn't it bother you that an innocent man was convicted of a crime he didn't commit?" His grin got even bigger as he said "well, he should have filed on time." They don't care about if you're guilty or not; it's all about the conviction rate and putting black people in jail. 😡
The worst part of innocent individuals being wrongly convicted is that there is someone still free that could offend again, possibly costing someone their life.
@Cancer McAids Ok, get of your high horse and calm down. Obviously the innocent individual being convicted is a terrible outcome for everyone and I never intended to downplay that fact. What I really meant, that should have been obvious, was “a bad part”. I guess I misspoke and expressed my point poorly.
This is the reason I'm opposed to the death penalty. I think there are crimes for which execution would be an appropriate punishment, but any risk of executing an innocent person is too much.
I feel the same 99% of the time unless it involves children. Someone harms a kid I want them to fry and they better use a dry sponge. Btw I've got 5 kids so I couldn't handle anything happening to them.
@@lovingtennessee7726 But in the video one of the wrongful convictions WAS involving a child. Also, the more monstrous the crime, the more the police are going to want to arrest SOMEONE if only to avoid the anger of the community that would result from not arresting anyone for it.
@@lovingtennessee7726 Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for the deaths of his three children. Evidence of him killing then include the heavy metal posters on his bedroom walls and him wandering around in shock saying “it should have been me instead” and the lighter fluid, charcoal grill he and his family used by the front door…and the smoke in the ceiling formed a star. Lighter fluid wasn’t used in the fire, a man in shock saying he should have died instead of his kids is nothing, what the hell does listening to metal have to do with anything, and the smoke on the ceiling was toward the windows. ALL the evidence, to this day, point to the fire being an electrical fire, not murder. New technology since then has shown this even more, Fucking Rick Perry shut down a task force tasked with investigating an innocent man being killed. And he was innocent. I get the feeling, though. Wanting to slaughter those who hurt kids. But let prison take care of them. We shouldn’t risk executing innocent people. We can release them from prison, but not bring them back from the dead.
Actually, i feel like rotting in a cell for the rest of your life is a much more fitting punishment for animals like those compared to the sweet release death
19:50 I believe the 4 yo was the tampered witness, while the victim was a teenager. Still brutal, but a different crime. 26:28 a pardon does that... but weird enough, it also cements the guilt: only proven criminals can get a pardon, and if someone convicted for a crime is pardoned, the case is never reopened. 27:01 ... which is why I'm baffled by this.
9:35 it's possible to lose a lot of blood and still survive with prompt medical treatment. My father was in a nasty accident and lost about 75% of his volume
Flying home on military leave, there was someone in front of me going through with a pool stick, which he couldn't do for some reason. We were going on the same flight, so the TSA agent asked me if I'd check it with my bags. It was a very small airport that had only 2 gates.
Given the way the news reported things, slanted things, etc. It took forever for the truth to come out. My brother in law is a retired policeman and his advice is: never talk to a cop, do not try to be helpful, and demand a lawyer immediately.
It's weird that police stations/officers expect to have any trust from anyone, now that knowledge of how much they lie (even under oath in court) is so widespread.
Can't argue that racism is prevalent in America. However, I assure you it's alive and well in Czeckoslovakia(where Simon lives) and every single other place humans are.
Yeah unfortunately the same racial bias happens in the U.K. every day too. It’s possibly a slightly different flavour of shite, but it’s the same racism rebranded.
Sounds like the police here in Calgary, Alberta Canada where the police investigate themselves and decide they are not to blame. No governmental agency will investigate police misconduct, and the public must file complaints with the very agency they are complaining about. One police officer fractured the skull of a 12 year special needs boy and in short nothing was done; the officer was found blameless.
The whole point of bond is to force you to turn back up for the trial. It's supposed to be an amount you can afford to put up but enough that it hurts to lose, then post trial you get it back no matter what the outcome(in some countries with interest too). America has a weird version of bonds where it's too expensive to afford in the first place, then they have private companies charge 10% of the bond amount to front the bond themselves. This obviously defeats the point, if you're not getting the money back at all why would you care about returning for the trial, and if you're paying a lesser amount it's not going to hurt as much. Bond done well is an effective motivator to return for trial. Bond done the american way is just punishing poor people for being poor.
Simon is such the artful master of peddling all things :As Seen on TV: ;) How much could I pay you to promote my all-natural, freshly cut cockenball trimmings?
The disabled boys who spent 30 years in prison actually made me want to throw up, wtf. And you just know that there are countless stories like theirs out there. It's sick
Actually there are many occasions where if they signa confessions they can go home. It is usually after the district attorney realizes the person wrongfully convicted will eventually go free. There are many times where a wrongfully convicted person is told to confess to a lesser offense and they can go free. There are many examples of people being in jail for 10 or more years, then sign a confession so they can be let out on time served. American justice system isn't about putting the criminal away, but about putting away "someone" for the crime.
Justice Antonin Scalia was a titan of the constitution. "If you agree with an outcome you think good judge, but if you disagree that's a bad judge. You can't judge a judge by the ruling until you understand the statues they were dealing with. It's often garbage in garbage out." - Antonin Scalia
@@AngeliqueStP The statement isn't wrong. If the prosecutor feeds you BS with the aid of the police and the accused doesn't have a lawyer good enough to do something against it. Or the bastards even made you wave your Miranda rights... What's the judge supposed to do? IIRC the judge is usually not even allowed to dig for evidence in either direction. So if nobody brings those alibies up or that the DNA doesn't match, the judge is forced to rule on BS.
Another excellent example of this kind of nonsense happening is Melissa Lucio in Texas. She had a stay of execution two days before she was scheduled to be executed. Here’s hoping she finally gets released. People are fighting for this and I’m so hopeful they finally get her out of that prison.
@@ThatWriterKevin Well if all we're gonna do is SPECULATE, then you can write about the best and worst anythings ever. So go for it. I encourage you to do so.
@@shaunsmusicreviews I like the bearded, seated version of him doing Brain Blaze. But I guess I will like the prior, standing version more when I watch previous content.
@@jamshaidmushtaq1811 He really looked like he was in cocaine on those episodes! …yet I have to admit that they are funny and highly entertaining. Enjoy!
It wasn't an 11 year old that Leon, and Henry were accused of killing. It was an 11 year old. The 4 year old was her younger sister, who later claimed her sister had gone to return a bicycle to Leon.
@NHarmonik thank you for pointing it out. Now the question is do I correct it, leave it, delete amd repost it or just delete it as I'm sure he knows by now. Decisions, decisions lol.
I work with the developmentally disabled and people have been afraid and them for years even though they're the least likely person to commit any kind of heinous crime
Bail is set by a Judge, who chooses it based on the means available to the accused. If they show up to court, they get their money back. It has to be an amount of money that the accused will be motivated to get back. If a poor man and a rich man are both arrested for the same crime, bail for the poor man may be set at something like $500, while bail for the rich man may be set at $5 million. Other factors may also increase the bail, such as how likely the judge believes the accused is to run, instead of coming back for his money. Furthermore, when bail is paid, the accused is released into the custody of the person who paid the bail, and that person is expected to make sure that the accused makes their court date, as it is often their money on the line, not that of the accused. The accused may also employ the services of a Bail Bondsman, who will pay their bail, for a much smaller fee. If the accused then fails to show up to court, the Bail Bondsman will hire bounty hunters to bring the accused to justice.
Lol. It depends wildly on the judge, plus 500 for a poor person to come up with has a far larger impact the 250M to a rich person. A rich person children will still eat. Bail needs to end.
Have you or a loved one suffer from the big sad because Kevin didn't provide you with lols. Then you may be entitled to basement shroom compassion. *Basement shrooms may be replaced with an mushroom of equal or lesser value provide that they can be smuggled in. You must accept these shrooms in the condition that they're in We can not held liable for damages caused by the delivery method Simon choses, may that be thrown, yetted
In Texas right now 2 men who admitted to kidnapping SAing and pimping out an underaged girl are gonna be released with no jail time, meanwhile the little girl was punished for being assaulted. That the sorta story that u wanna hear about?
@Rogue Wolf nah bro. #allegedlife saves you everytime. It can be "alleged" that I enjoy fornication with walrus' and I can't say anything about it because that magic word was used
16:55 that’s what I think is pretty good here in Switzerland, if there is any doubt in misconduct of the police, the investigation will be made by the police corps of another canton so they won’t be biased like in that case
19:24 "This is not what I signed up for on Brain Blaze this is the $h!t I have to deal with on Causal Criminalist" Well you lock them all up in ONE basement they are gonna talk to each other and naturally work will spill over!
Scalia: #1. supported the overturning of Roe v Wade #2. opposed same sex marriage #3. supported the death penalty for those under 18 and for those who are mentally handicapped #4. supported an absolute right to firearms #5. supported Citizens United decision, which essentially ruled that corporations could be considered the same as private citizens as far as contributions to political campaigns. This led to the rise of dark money in politics. He died in 2016 and was replaced by Neil Gorsuch
I wonder if those in charge of the afterlife had enough support to send him to hell? Afterlife lobby groups that petition proper consequences for arseholes in power should be a thing.
@@TheEvilCommenter if that's aimed at me then guilty as charged! I'm Australian and only have a vague understanding of American Constitutional Law. We don't even have a Constitution in Australia! But I do like the idea of Judges bring held accountable for their decisions in the afterlife. Especially if they supported the death penalty for children and the mentally handicapped (we also don't have death penalty in Australia).
@@TheUnamedPerson The 2nd amendment doesn't give the right so that it can be used against the government, though. It was because the military was much smaller and there was still fear of re-invasion by the British at the time. It's meaning has been perverted by past conservative-stacked Supreme Courts and NRA gaslighting for the purpose of selling guns. Anyone who is fantasizing about overthrowing the government just because their preferred candidate didn't win an election, simply isn't nearly the patriot they claim to be.
Here in South Africa there is massive corruption everywhere especially in the justice system where there are numerous rumors of criminals paying off judges or prosecutors to get rid of their charges
When my dad landed in whatever country it was with the death penalty for drugs there was an announcement about it on the plane. "The penalty for drug smuggling here is death. If you have drugs in your possession, do not get off the plane. 2 people from random places on the plane did not get off that he could see.
I was hoping you were going to mention the case of Willie Nash, a 39yo black man who in 2018 was sentenced to 12 yrs in prison for having a cell phone while in jail for a misdemeanor. A phone the guards had failed to confiscate during strip search. He later asked a guard to charge it, instead he got 12yrs. Mississippi Supreme Court upheld the conviction and sentence. Very heartbreaking story. Racism sucks
I agree Simon, wrong channel for it. Not that the topic can't be touched on, but it really needs to be... toned down... on this channel. We don't have the time to do it right, go into the life of the family ruined by this person's actions, so it needs to be brushed over quickly and details can be lost. In this case, just being told it involved the death of a child would have been enough to hit home the crime and the injustice to follow.
West Memphis 3. The defense team only recently was able to obtain evidence that the police claimed was destroyed in a nonexistent fire years ago. The state is still blocking attempts to DNA test that evidence to prove them innocent.
If your "iPad" made that tone... you may have been sold a Samsung on the grey market disguised as an apple product, mayve check if the "appstore" is the "google play store" or maybe "fdroid".
If I get arrested when ever the officers walk in the room that's what I'm going to do is just sit there bobbing back and forth going lawyer lawyer lawyer lawyer !!!! 😂
Sad story with the Central Park victim. But when the only info the outside people knew were those boys were mugging people. Then one went too far. Then they confessed. Obviously illegally obtained by the police. But 1 million a year for prison time is a LOT better than many of these freed falsely blamed people have gotten.
I've always thought you should do unjust convictions on The Casual Criminalist. I've also wonder if you know about the flaws of "expert testimony" and the other bunk that pervades forensics.
@@mariafinnell8421 I've watched it, but I can't seem to remember the title of it even after looking through the catalogue. Guess thats just a good excuse to start from the beginning. XD
I believe accepting a pardon for a crime is like admitting you did the crime.... why a lot of innocent people dont accept pardons they fight till conviction is overturned an removed of your record
So I'm officially throwing my hat into the 2028 Presidential race as a Logitarian, making logic based decisions and passing laws based on reason and hard facts. My slogan shall be "Doing what's right".
@@RealSkoolmaster I'm sorry did I make a joke. It was a serious question. It sounds like you were displeased, sorry if I was incorrect. But attacking me for calmly asking u a question, calm down dude.
And the events of this episode are one of many reasons why I will always oppose the death penalty even if there are certain individuals that sicken me to the point of wanting them dead for what they've done. So long as there's a non-zero risk of an innocent person going to the gallows nobody should be sent to them.
@@diggernash1 there's a chance of both happening, but why would unrelated crimes matter? If someone is wrongfully convicted, them having committed actual crimes wouldn't justify imprisoning or executing them for crimes they didn't commit. However I did scroll down further and see you comment that the central park 5 didn't deserve a million per year for being wrongfully imprisoned, so it's clear you don't actually give a shit about justice. There is no way to prove 100% that something happened, so the death penalty will kill innocent people
on that last point we recently convicted a lawyer for killing his family after exploiting his customers. so yeah lawyers are people too and 100% capable of the BS that anyone else is capable.
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You have a scammed on your comments section by looks of it 😂
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Simon, you lucky bastard. You won! 🤦🤦♂️🤦♀️
What episode of casual criminalist my dude?
Simon face told all after he read about the 4 year old girl. I almost saw him thinking that he'll handcuff his kids in radiator so they can't go out, and became victims. Lol, ik you have a sick sense of humor Simon, but radiator?? That's little weird. Lol
This brings up an interesting idea, why not make police who knowingly do this stuff legally accomplices after the fact concidering they willfully helped the guilty parties get away with their crimes by framing innocent people.
And serve sentences combined of that of an accomplice to the original plus what the innocent had to serve.
Kevin!!! Lol… “I guess it wasn’t missing it was all over the ground”…terrible, but watching Simons face realizing what he’s saying after he interrupted himself …. 🙏
My favourite quote from a lawyer I know: “none of my clients ever strengthened their defence talking to the police” 🤷🏼♂️😂
In the small rural southern community I grew up in an African American man was found drowned wrapped in logging chain. The sheriff ruled the man had stolen more chain than he could swim with.
Possible.
@@Benji-jj2bg entirely believable you mean.
Who in their right mind would move from Africa to a southern state in America? At least when he was as in Africa he didn’t have to deal with shiny things being such a temptation.
@@louyork8379 😂
@@louyork8379 African American as in the predecessors of SLAVES
Not even 30 seconds in and I'm getting advice to not confess. I had to check this was Brain Blaze not the Casual Criminalist.
This is why you don't cross the beams
Never confess.
Lawyer! Lawyer! Lawyer! 😂
DON'T! WRITE DOWN! YOUR CRIMES!
Thank you for posting a BB today Simon!!! I just had a surgery on Tuesday and I've been having a lot of complications, from the anesthesia so seeing my favorite YT channel post a video makes my miserable day into a tolerable one. ❤
Edit: Holy crap. You guys sure you posted this video on the right channel? Was looking to laugh not watch a casual criminalist episode lol.
Get well soon!
@@Vee_of_the_Weald Thank you!! ❤
I hope you get well soon and get back to ruling the cheese !
Yeah, this is the channel I watch after a hard day. I don't expect every BB episode to be sunshine and rainbows, but it should be funny, even if it's dark humor. This was just depressing.
Anesthesia is rough. Feel better soon.
The biggest injustice was not reading Danny's intro last week!! #neverforget
Preach!!!
Lol simon doesn't give a s**t about his viewers, only the ad revinue. Why do you think he stopped pushing merch as much?
My main thing is how often he talks about his kids. Like, c'mon. That's gonna come back to haunt them in middle school. "My two year old just finished toilet training and oh my god... it felt like it took forever..."
Agreed 😂
@@iainballas the likelihood that any elementary or middle school kids would set aside enough of their attention to even listen to these videos seems pretty low.
There are also much worse things he could be saying about his kids, and to the degree that it trivializes what he does talk about.
The emotions that come from having reclaimed your innocence, being released from the prison you were supposed to grow old and die in, AND walking out to "Sorry that was our bad" ( except way better because instead of useless words, it's millions of dollars) must be wild. I don't even know t what feelings would accompany that
I imagine it would be a very bittersweet feeling.
It probably depends on the person, but I'd feel vindicated that I was finally proven right, but bitter that no one listened
I think "way better" is not really honest. It's barely a drop for having one's life stolen and future destroyed. It's be better to say "not even a start". I don't think you can grasp what kind of torture the American prison system is. Nor how marginalizing it is to be a former prisoner.
Am I the only one who misses the pacing back and forth and yelling at the script of yesteryear?
remember he had that injury, kind of messed him up insofar as mobility goes.
No
Yes.
No no, Simon. Its not a system for the rich and a system for the poor. Its just one system that benifits the rich at the expense of the poor.
Like your health care system 😂
@@Akren905 HOW DAR...nah you right, this place sucks if you're poor 🙃
@@askingshoe2 Being poor is never great.
There is at least four systems that I can see.
Yet... well, your core reasoning isn't wrong because so much in America follows what you are highlighting.
The four I see:
Politicians can do insider trading, legally, because they literally have different rules....
The wealthy can do things differently because they can slow the system down, painfully so....
Normal individuals get a window-dressed version so they don't see what is really happening....
The poor, oh... we are not allowed to talk about that because it is akin to 'critical race theory!'
@@Akren905 was a bit more balanced until the government stuck it's snout in the trough.
Let's not forget that when innocent people are compensated for their lost years and the trauma they experienced:
A) No amount of money will ever EVER make up for it.
B) The money used to compensate them is paid by citizens.
C) All involved (judges, attorneys, police, etc.) are almost never punished or held accountable for their actions.
When a conviction was obtained through illegal means like coercion (lying shouldn’t be allowed), those who do it should get sentences twice as long as those they helped wrongly send to jail.
And after lawyers take their cut ...that compensation dwindles significantly.
@@Author.Noelle.Alexandria That would take an impartial investigation to uncover. Many countries do have a non-police agency that investigates the police whenever there's doubt. In the USA investigations like that are almost always done by the police department that is being investigated, for some unfathomable reason they usually find no evidence of any wrongdoing.
Simon got that intuition When you hear the noise you don't go check it out you turn the other way. His intuition was like "this is the beginning of a horror movie, No I will not check your bag"
I just imagine Simon googling "can a human live without 80% of their blood" and being put on a list.
I mean, he has a true crime podcast. He’s probably already on that list.
I was expecting him to ask Alexa, only to have her not answer.
I'm sure he has a lawyer in the basement just in case.
@Christine Benson it's always Siri.
Let's be real for a moment.
We're all on a list.
8:05 - Chapter 1 - The central park 5
18:35 - Chapter 2 - Leon brown & henry mccollum
Central Park* 5
In the late 60's, my older brother's best friend was arrested for murder. He was hanging out with another guy that had an arrest record. And old man that lived near the guy was horrifically beaten and murdered. The police immediately went to arrest him, just in case he was involved. My brother's friend was there, so they arrested him, too. The police had found a 14 year old girl at the scene. She had prior arrests for drug possession and prostitution. Rather than seeing her as a potential murderer, the police and DA claimed she was simply a witness. When asked why she was there, she stated that the old man owed her money. She was asked if she had seen the two boys in the house at the time of the murder. She said she had seen them murder the old man. Afterwards, she said she asked the boys to give her the money in the man's possession and they did. She had the blood soaked money on her person! The jury still found the boys guilty. My brother's friend was executed.
I was little at the time, so I didn't remember much, but I was curious. I googled his name and got the story. Turns out the case is now in a textbook about corruption in the legal system. In case you're curious, his name was Craig Chandler. RIP, Craig. You were a nice kid.
🫂 this is so tragic and so sad.
Also… for a 14 year old to have to sell her body for drugs at such a young age… there was something very very wrong in this girl’s childhood for sure, which is also sad and tragic.
Fuckin' hell thats nuts... did nobody think that the drugged out kid with the blood soaked money might be the killer!? People's bleeding hearts get in the way of using their damned heads way too often.
I believe "expunge" was the word we were looking for when undoing conviction
I prefer “Freedomized”.
Preach!!!
Quash
Or vacated
That's just removing it from the record. Vacated is to actually unwind time from a legal standpoint. Doesn't even require expungement. And a person who is guilty, does time, and successfully petitions to have their record expunged is a thing. But it doesn't undo the conviction. Vacated does however.
This one got crazy but on the plus side I’m glad to see the blaze boys and writers of the blazement are getting proper living condition facilities including access to showers I guess hiring a blazement lawyer backfired a bit on Simon but worked out for the basement staff in the end… 😂
Tbh I fully support Sam on his ending, good luck in court man!
Simon, I'm going to blow your mind. Finding proof that exonerates you is not enough to grant an appeal or retrial in America. A case just a few years back; a man's family paid to have DNA evidence tested which proved that it wasn't the man convicted who had done it. He filed an appeal. The appeal was denied because it wasn't filed within a certain time frame. A reporter interviewed the DA or judge (I can't remember) on the street and asked why he would deny an innocent person an appeal? He got this big shitty grin on his face and said because he didn't file in time. The reporter asked him "Doesn't it bother you that an innocent man was convicted of a crime he didn't commit?" His grin got even bigger as he said "well, he should have filed on time." They don't care about if you're guilty or not; it's all about the conviction rate and putting black people in jail. 😡
It's honestly infuriating
The worst part of innocent individuals being wrongly convicted is that there is someone still free that could offend again, possibly costing someone their life.
@Cancer McAids A failure of justice in every way. Zero upsides.
@Cancer McAids Ok, get of your high horse and calm down. Obviously the innocent individual being convicted is a terrible outcome for everyone and I never intended to downplay that fact. What I really meant, that should have been obvious, was “a bad part”. I guess I misspoke and expressed my point poorly.
This is the reason I'm opposed to the death penalty. I think there are crimes for which execution would be an appropriate punishment, but any risk of executing an innocent person is too much.
I feel the same 99% of the time unless it involves children. Someone harms a kid I want them to fry and they better use a dry sponge. Btw I've got 5 kids so I couldn't handle anything happening to them.
@@lovingtennessee7726 But in the video one of the wrongful convictions WAS involving a child. Also, the more monstrous the crime, the more the police are going to want to arrest SOMEONE if only to avoid the anger of the community that would result from not arresting anyone for it.
@@lovingtennessee7726 Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for the deaths of his three children. Evidence of him killing then include the heavy metal posters on his bedroom walls and him wandering around in shock saying “it should have been me instead” and the lighter fluid, charcoal grill he and his family used by the front door…and the smoke in the ceiling formed a star. Lighter fluid wasn’t used in the fire, a man in shock saying he should have died instead of his kids is nothing, what the hell does listening to metal have to do with anything, and the smoke on the ceiling was toward the windows. ALL the evidence, to this day, point to the fire being an electrical fire, not murder. New technology since then has shown this even more, Fucking Rick Perry shut down a task force tasked with investigating an innocent man being killed. And he was innocent.
I get the feeling, though. Wanting to slaughter those who hurt kids. But let prison take care of them. We shouldn’t risk executing innocent people. We can release them from prison, but not bring them back from the dead.
Actually, i feel like rotting in a cell for the rest of your life is a much more fitting punishment for animals like those compared to the sweet release death
My main problem with the death penalty is that I can't kill a man who can't fight back.
How can I expect someone else to do that?
You could also do a story about the cash for kids judges.
We never heard who the editor was in this; good luck, lengthy-named Comrade on your Blazement Mushroom quest, and thank you for your work!!!
19:50 I believe the 4 yo was the tampered witness, while the victim was a teenager. Still brutal, but a different crime.
26:28 a pardon does that... but weird enough, it also cements the guilt: only proven criminals can get a pardon, and if someone convicted for a crime is pardoned, the case is never reopened.
27:01 ... which is why I'm baffled by this.
I wonder if it was misreported (in the original reporting) as a pardon, but was actually vacated (I think thats the term?)
9:35 it's possible to lose a lot of blood and still survive with prompt medical treatment. My father was in a nasty accident and lost about 75% of his volume
Flying home on military leave, there was someone in front of me going through with a pool stick, which he couldn't do for some reason. We were going on the same flight, so the TSA agent asked me if I'd check it with my bags.
It was a very small airport that had only 2 gates.
DAs and the Police forget that they are supposed to search for justice and the truth, not wins.
Given the way the news reported things, slanted things, etc. It took forever for the truth to come out. My brother in law is a retired policeman and his advice is: never talk to a cop, do not try to be helpful, and demand a lawyer immediately.
It's weird that police stations/officers expect to have any trust from anyone, now that knowledge of how much they lie (even under oath in court) is so widespread.
Me: It's been a long day. I'm ready for some Brain Blaze silliness.
Simon: Welcome to the Casual Criminalist.
Simon visibly confused by American racism is inappropriately hilarious to me.
Can't argue that racism is prevalent in America. However, I assure you it's alive and well in Czeckoslovakia(where Simon lives) and every single other place humans are.
@@magnificentuniverse2283 you have to admit that there’s less “automatic” racism in the UK than there is in the rest of Europe - or am I this naive?
He says what the other 190ish countries think.
Racism goes both ways, there are and always will be white, black (and any other color) racists out there, it’s (sadly) a matter of fact
Yeah unfortunately the same racial bias happens in the U.K. every day too. It’s possibly a slightly different flavour of shite, but it’s the same racism rebranded.
Yoo Simon, you should look up Gert Postel, German mailman that somehow managed to play doctor for real for a good couple of years
Sounds like the police here in Calgary, Alberta Canada where the police investigate themselves and decide they are not to blame. No governmental agency will investigate police misconduct, and the public must file complaints with the very agency they are complaining about. One police officer fractured the skull of a 12 year special needs boy and in short nothing was done; the officer was found blameless.
Every time Simon expresses any indignation - "Simon, this is America !"
Is my response.
So true!!
Love it! 5 minutes in and his tangent gets smacked with a healthy dose of A.D.D when the tablet beeps. 🤣
The whole point of bond is to force you to turn back up for the trial.
It's supposed to be an amount you can afford to put up but enough that it hurts to lose, then post trial you get it back no matter what the outcome(in some countries with interest too).
America has a weird version of bonds where it's too expensive to afford in the first place, then they have private companies charge 10% of the bond amount to front the bond themselves. This obviously defeats the point, if you're not getting the money back at all why would you care about returning for the trial, and if you're paying a lesser amount it's not going to hurt as much.
Bond done well is an effective motivator to return for trial. Bond done the american way is just punishing poor people for being poor.
i am from Belize and i love that he said that because its true. the rich just move here to hide
"The truth shall set you free" unless you're in court.
Poor Sam not getting mentioned at the beginning anymore and having to go through all of that editing.
Yeah simon stopped caring a while ago.
Simon is such the artful master of peddling all things :As Seen on TV: ;)
How much could I pay you to promote my all-natural, freshly cut cockenball trimmings?
The disabled boys who spent 30 years in prison actually made me want to throw up, wtf. And you just know that there are countless stories like theirs out there. It's sick
Love The blazement lore, it’s great to keep it alive, also what’s the exchange rate on blazement mushrooms 🍄
Actually there are many occasions where if they signa confessions they can go home. It is usually after the district attorney realizes the person wrongfully convicted will eventually go free. There are many times where a wrongfully convicted person is told to confess to a lesser offense and they can go free. There are many examples of people being in jail for 10 or more years, then sign a confession so they can be let out on time served. American justice system isn't about putting the criminal away, but about putting away "someone" for the crime.
Simon's pronunciation of Scalia is way better and appropriate than the real way
Justice Antonin Scalia was a titan of the constitution.
"If you agree with an outcome you think good judge, but if you disagree that's a bad judge. You can't judge a judge by the ruling until you understand the statues they were dealing with. It's often garbage in garbage out."
- Antonin Scalia
@@ddylla85 lol... yeah, no.
@@AngeliqueStP The statement isn't wrong. If the prosecutor feeds you BS with the aid of the police and the accused doesn't have a lawyer good enough to do something against it. Or the bastards even made you wave your Miranda rights... What's the judge supposed to do?
IIRC the judge is usually not even allowed to dig for evidence in either direction.
So if nobody brings those alibies up or that the DNA doesn't match, the judge is forced to rule on BS.
Scalia is burning in Hell.
Love that Kevin is a Big Boi of Blaze now and also his incredibly based take on the abolition of the US cash bail system. Great episode!!
Thanks!
Another excellent example of this kind of nonsense happening is Melissa Lucio in Texas. She had a stay of execution two days before she was scheduled to be executed. Here’s hoping she finally gets released. People are fighting for this and I’m so hopeful they finally get her out of that prison.
It always amazes me and it's fully bipartisan ... Prosecutors will not admit they were wrong. Even faced with insurmountable evidence...
If Melissa was anywhere other than Texas or Florida, she’d have gotten a pardon. But Asshole and Fuckwit won’t even listen to their own parties.
It's true that I have never been President. But also, at the end of the day, no one will ever be able to claim I'm the worst President ever.
Maybe I'll write an episode on people who would be the worst president ever if elected
@@ThatWriterKevin Well if all we're gonna do is SPECULATE, then you can write about the best and worst anythings ever. So go for it.
I encourage you to do so.
Simon it's been far too long I thought something might have happened don't do this to me it's not good for my mental health 😂😂
My thoughts exactly!
I thought it was just me!!😂😂😂
I know! I feel deprived, and was afraid something happened to him--no BB, no CC, no DTU... I had to "settle" for Biographics and Geographics!
Guys, I love Simon's videos too, but it may be time for some real-world friends
@@FMoash There's a real world?
Brain Blaze is now my favorite SimonTube channel. Don't ever do this to us again, Simon. The wait for new Blazeful content is an agonising one.
You have almost 3 years of back content, back to the lore rich buisness blaze days....
@@shaunsmusicreviews I like the bearded, seated version of him doing Brain Blaze. But I guess I will like the prior, standing version more when I watch previous content.
@@jamshaidmushtaq1811
He really looked like he was in cocaine on those episodes! …yet I have to admit that they are funny and highly entertaining. Enjoy!
* ON cocaine (edit)
I go in spurts for which is my favorite. To fall asleep to it's definitely Decoding the unknown.
3:45 if you want to skip Simon's waaaaay too long intro! How does it feel when it's done to you Simon?😘
Good point! 🤘🏼
It wasn't an 11 year old that Leon, and Henry were accused of killing. It was an 11 year old. The 4 year old was her younger sister, who later claimed her sister had gone to return a bicycle to Leon.
Er, you mean "It wasn't a 4 year old" instead of "It wasn't an 11 year old".
@NHarmonik if you were intelligent enough to arrive at the typo conclusion all by yourself then I'll assume Simon surely must be as well.
@@austin4x Fair point.
@NHarmonik thank you for pointing it out. Now the question is do I correct it, leave it, delete amd repost it or just delete it as I'm sure he knows by now. Decisions, decisions lol.
I work with the developmentally disabled and people have been afraid and them for years even though they're the least likely person to commit any kind of heinous crime
And SOOOO much more likely than abled individuals to be victims!!
The Oblivion bit caught me completely off-guard. Now I'm just here rolling on the floor.
9:49 BEST JOKE EVER!!! All hail Kevin the new king of the Radiator!
I love how Kevin episodes can often be like a turducken of my top 3 Simon Shows - BB, CC, & Into the Shadows - nice job guys 👏 🎉😊
Thanks! Ironically, this topic was entirely Simon's suggestion
Bail is set by a Judge, who chooses it based on the means available to the accused. If they show up to court, they get their money back. It has to be an amount of money that the accused will be motivated to get back. If a poor man and a rich man are both arrested for the same crime, bail for the poor man may be set at something like $500, while bail for the rich man may be set at $5 million. Other factors may also increase the bail, such as how likely the judge believes the accused is to run, instead of coming back for his money. Furthermore, when bail is paid, the accused is released into the custody of the person who paid the bail, and that person is expected to make sure that the accused makes their court date, as it is often their money on the line, not that of the accused.
The accused may also employ the services of a Bail Bondsman, who will pay their bail, for a much smaller fee. If the accused then fails to show up to court, the Bail Bondsman will hire bounty hunters to bring the accused to justice.
Thank you for this. Us European are completely ignorant of the procedure as it doesn’t happen here.
@@Vee_of_the_Weald we got it from you guys! XD
Lol. It depends wildly on the judge, plus 500 for a poor person to come up with has a far larger impact the 250M to a rich person. A rich person children will still eat. Bail needs to end.
_"Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia..."_
Simon: Wasn't he famous? 😂
Famous alright... famous for being a :massive: bellend.
Have you or a loved one suffer from the big sad because Kevin didn't provide you with lols.
Then you may be entitled to basement shroom compassion.
*Basement shrooms may be replaced with an mushroom of equal or lesser value provide that they can be smuggled in. You must accept these shrooms in the condition that they're in We can not held liable for damages caused by the delivery method Simon choses, may that be thrown, yetted
You are correct Simon. Trump still to this day will not apologize.
You should do the opposite of this video where someone clearly (allegedly) did something and got away with it like OJ
There's a casual criminalist all about that crock of shit
Yea…except unless done perfectly that’s *just begging* for a lawsuit.
In Texas right now 2 men who admitted to kidnapping SAing and pimping out an underaged girl are gonna be released with no jail time, meanwhile the little girl was punished for being assaulted. That the sorta story that u wanna hear about?
@Rogue Wolf nah bro. #allegedlife saves you everytime. It can be "alleged" that I enjoy fornication with walrus' and I can't say anything about it because that magic word was used
You just had an advert for Mouse in the House world. I want to build my own Mouse House world.... 🙀
16:55 that’s what I think is pretty good here in Switzerland, if there is any doubt in misconduct of the police, the investigation will be made by the police corps of another canton so they won’t be biased like in that case
19:24 "This is not what I signed up for on Brain Blaze this is the $h!t I have to deal with on Causal Criminalist"
Well you lock them all up in ONE basement they are gonna talk to each other and naturally work will spill over!
Scalia:
#1. supported the overturning of Roe v Wade
#2. opposed same sex marriage
#3. supported the death penalty for those under 18 and for those who are mentally handicapped
#4. supported an absolute right to firearms
#5. supported Citizens United decision, which essentially ruled that corporations could be considered the same as private citizens as far as contributions to political campaigns. This led to the rise of dark money in politics.
He died in 2016 and was replaced by Neil Gorsuch
I wonder if those in charge of the afterlife had enough support to send him to hell? Afterlife lobby groups that petition proper consequences for arseholes in power should be a thing.
Tell me you don't understand constitutional law without telling me you don't understand constitutional law 😂
@@TheEvilCommenter if that's aimed at me then guilty as charged! I'm Australian and only have a vague understanding of American Constitutional Law. We don't even have a Constitution in Australia! But I do like the idea of Judges bring held accountable for their decisions in the afterlife. Especially if they supported the death penalty for children and the mentally handicapped (we also don't have death penalty in Australia).
@@TheEvilCommentertell me you're an evil commenter without... oh wait. 😅
@@TheUnamedPerson The 2nd amendment doesn't give the right so that it can be used against the government, though. It was because the military was much smaller and there was still fear of re-invasion by the British at the time. It's meaning has been perverted by past conservative-stacked Supreme Courts and NRA gaslighting for the purpose of selling guns. Anyone who is fantasizing about overthrowing the government just because their preferred candidate didn't win an election, simply isn't nearly the patriot they claim to be.
Please cover more wrongful conviction cases on Casual Criminalist.
Here in South Africa there is massive corruption everywhere especially in the justice system where there are numerous rumors of criminals paying off judges or prosecutors to get rid of their charges
When my dad landed in whatever country it was with the death penalty for drugs there was an announcement about it on the plane. "The penalty for drug smuggling here is death. If you have drugs in your possession, do not get off the plane. 2 people from random places on the plane did not get off that he could see.
I was hoping you were going to mention the case of Willie Nash, a 39yo black man who in 2018 was sentenced to 12 yrs in prison for having a cell phone while in jail for a misdemeanor. A phone the guards had failed to confiscate during strip search. He later asked a guard to charge it, instead he got 12yrs. Mississippi Supreme Court upheld the conviction and sentence. Very heartbreaking story. Racism sucks
That's not racism it's a very severe crime to have a phone in prison or jail. It makes it easier for escapes drug smuggling etc.
Lmao Sam, I love your note to Kevin at the end
Yay new business blaze
Kevin I hope you're okay man.
You spend a lot of time in the darkness; hope it's not spending too much time in you.
If woman didn't went to places where there have been crimes against them, we couldn't go out of our house.
It's crazy how many vanced users watch these channels lmao I love it as much as I love the fact boy
Last time I was this early this channel was Business Blaze.
Hey, I went to school with Dumbass McPantsonfire! I always wondered what happened to him...
Taking a pardon is an admission of guilt.
Lol the last story was literally Simon going through some good old American culture shock.
I agree Simon, wrong channel for it.
Not that the topic can't be touched on, but it really needs to be... toned down... on this channel. We don't have the time to do it right, go into the life of the family ruined by this person's actions, so it needs to be brushed over quickly and details can be lost. In this case, just being told it involved the death of a child would have been enough to hit home the crime and the injustice to follow.
Hey Simon any chance you could go back to roaming while you blaze
Finally, he threw mushrooms into the basement. Or the Lizard Overlords have something on him. Allegedly. Cheers
Hahaha oh Kevin. I love your morbid sense of humor. Keep it up.
Thanks!
West Memphis 3. The defense team only recently was able to obtain evidence that the police claimed was destroyed in a nonexistent fire years ago. The state is still blocking attempts to DNA test that evidence to prove them innocent.
If your "iPad" made that tone... you may have been sold a Samsung on the grey market disguised as an apple product, mayve check if the "appstore" is the "google play store" or maybe "fdroid".
If I get arrested when ever the officers walk in the room that's what I'm going to do is just sit there bobbing back and forth going lawyer lawyer lawyer lawyer !!!! 😂
People are always going to be people. Any sister that allows for Abuse without accountability is always going to be unjust.
Sad story with the Central Park victim. But when the only info the outside people knew were those boys were mugging people. Then one went too far. Then they confessed. Obviously illegally obtained by the police. But 1 million a year for prison time is a LOT better than many of these freed falsely blamed people have gotten.
Welcome to America Simon
I've always thought you should do unjust convictions on The Casual Criminalist. I've also wonder if you know about the flaws of "expert testimony" and the other bunk that pervades forensics.
5:07 any chance you know which episode this is off the top of your head? Don’t see a title with the names
@@mariafinnell8421 I've watched it, but I can't seem to remember the title of it even after looking through the catalogue. Guess thats just a good excuse to start from the beginning. XD
@@mariafinnell8421 It's the Chiong Sisters, link is here: ruclips.net/video/LyWbJNxjF6c/видео.html
Well look at the bright side Simon we got some new and creative ideals for casual criminals episodes. Milk the cow Simon milk it.
I believe accepting a pardon for a crime is like admitting you did the crime.... why a lot of innocent people dont accept pardons they fight till conviction is overturned an removed of your record
19:47 You truly do care about me Simon, you really do.
So I'm officially throwing my hat into the 2028 Presidential race as a Logitarian, making logic based decisions and passing laws based on reason and hard facts. My slogan shall be "Doing what's right".
You don't get a lawyer "even" if you're innocent, you get a lawyer "especially" if you're innocent
That editors signature at the end got me good. The only funny thing today sadly, but still, it was good.
If you disliked it so much, why did u watch the whole thing?
@@Memento_Mori_Morals what part, exactly, of unjust convictions and innocent people being jailed is funny?
@@RealSkoolmaster I'm sorry did I make a joke. It was a serious question. It sounds like you were displeased, sorry if I was incorrect. But attacking me for calmly asking u a question, calm down dude.
And the events of this episode are one of many reasons why I will always oppose the death penalty even if there are certain individuals that sicken me to the point of wanting them dead for what they've done.
So long as there's a non-zero risk of an innocent person going to the gallows nobody should be sent to them.
Why would we want to feed and house these humans? Death penalty, carried out 180 days after conviction; limited to one appeal 150 days afterwards.
@@diggernash1
Is the life of an innocent person this cheap to you that they should die so your tax money won’t feed monsters for too long?
@@diggernash1 the comment answers your question, which should be obvious anyways considering this video is about wrongfully convicted people
@@justinbeath5169 Innocent or innocent of the charges convicted of? But my response is to the OP's opposition to the death penalty in general.
@@diggernash1 there's a chance of both happening, but why would unrelated crimes matter? If someone is wrongfully convicted, them having committed actual crimes wouldn't justify imprisoning or executing them for crimes they didn't commit. However I did scroll down further and see you comment that the central park 5 didn't deserve a million per year for being wrongfully imprisoned, so it's clear you don't actually give a shit about justice. There is no way to prove 100% that something happened, so the death penalty will kill innocent people
A new business blaze?! Nice. My brain was starting to get really smooth, I needed some blaze to get my wrinkles back
ditto
I get the feeling Simon hasn’t been to Central Park. 💀
Everything Simon said is fact. A $250million bond means you definitely should have gone on the run 🤷🏿♂️
Should do a video on the Chicago 7
on that last point we recently convicted a lawyer for killing his family after exploiting his customers.
so yeah lawyers are people too and 100% capable of the BS that anyone else is capable.