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Thursday, 20 July 2006
In the 23 years since Betty Jane Mottinger disappeared and was found murdered, the State of Ohio has never made any effort to put Delaney Gibson on trial. Why? Because they know he is innocent, and they know he can prove his innocence! Although he had been indicted in the Mottinger case, Ohio never placed a detainer against him during the 17 years he spent in a Kentucky prison for two unrelated murders. Consequently, Gibson was paroled in 1998, returned to prison on a parole violation, and paroled again. He was repeatedly released from prison even though there was an outstanding warrant for his arrest and he was under indictment in Ohio for capital murder with death penalty specifications.
There is something very wrong when Delaney Gibson was freed from prison while under indictment for the same capital crime that I was convicted and sentenced to death for. However, as I’ve explained the reason is simple: the State knew Gibson was innocent of any involvement in Betty Jane Mottinger’s abduction and murder. Yet the prosecution argued to my jury that Gibson and I committed this crime together. My prosecutors did nothing less than present false evidence and a false case to my jury, knowing it was false at the time of my trial.