What will prosecutors do in the Amy Yates case now that her parents have sided with the parents of the 12 year old boy who was convicted (wrongfully, I believe) of her murder. Today, both sets of parents will join together at a press conference to call upon prosecutors to release the boy from a juvenile facility where he has been held since he entered an Alford plea in the case. Amy's father, who angrily displayed photos of his dead daughter when the 12 year old was on trial, feels like he was defrauded by police and prosecutors who led him to believe that the case against the boy was solid. Expect fireworks today when he stands with Gerald Word, the lawyer for the 12 year old boy and the boy's parents, and denounces the State's case as razor-thin and calls upon the authorities to release the boy and to charge an 18 year old who has confessed in detail to the slaying. In a preview of what is to come, the Atlanta Journal Constitution quotes Mr. Yates as saying: "This man [Word] was my enemy because we were led to believe there was mounds of evidence against his client," Yates said Monday, "but since the trial, we learned the investigators didn't have a thing on the boy but one blue fiber that was in thousands of coats." The article can be found at: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/0314metyates.html
