"My Daddy Killed my Mommy" It's the Prisons Fault

[Law Dawg]

May 10, 2004
PONTIAC, Mich. -- A jury found a father guilty of murder Monday in the
deaths of his ex-wife and two of her young daughters.
  Investigation Into Murder Suspect's Release
The jury deliberated just more than 2 ½ hours before finding Daniel
Franklin, 34, guilty of first-degree murder in the June 22 deaths of
Machekia Robinson, 28; Taria Johnson, 8, and Rockell Johnson, 10, at the
woman's Pontiac town house.
D'anajeh Robinson, now 4, spent the night alone with the bodies of her
mother and half sisters, according to prosecutors. D'anajeh is
Franklin's daughter with Robinson.
During the trial, which lasted just more than a week, Oakland County
Assistant Prosecutor Barbara Morrison told the jury that when police
arrived at Robinson's home, D'anajeh told them, "My daddy killed my
mommy and my sisters and he hurt them with a knife."
Two Pontiac police officers testified that when they arrived, Franklin
waved them down and talked to them casually. They said Franklin
(pictured, left), who was outside the town house with his sister,
appeared calm while D'anajeh cried.
Defense attorney Lawrence Kaluzny had called a 15-year-old cousin of
Franklin who testified that Franklin was home the night of the killings.
The teen also testified Franklin was home the week of June 11, but
Franklin was in prison on a drug charge until June 17.
The killings occurred five days after Franklin was mistakenly paroled
from prison due to a clerical error.

"The demand of the hour in America is for jurors with conscience, judges
with courage, and prisons which are neither country clubs nor health
resorts. It is not the criminals, actual or potential, that need a
neuropathic hospital; it is the people who slobber over them in an
effort to find excuses for their crime."
  Judge Alfred J.
Talley