


Staff writer Bob Gardinier reports:





”He had no one else around, like family or friends, to confide in,” Ofshe said. ”The police are in total control and defendants feel alone, anxious and depressed.”

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Mike Goodwin

25 Responses

  1. Amanda says:

    Awww poor guy.


  2. Myra Snoozlestein says:

    This professor is right. When a person is held in a small room for even two or three hours under any situation, when they are being expected to answer questions and their future is on the line, the results are unreliable. In each sitution like this, the person being interrogated or otherwise made to answer questions should be made to sign off every 30 minutes as to whether or not they feel as if their rights are being violated; give specific statements as to the volutariness of their answers and their attitude about answering the questions. In any event, this man should have been with his family after the death of his son. He should have been allowed to hold if or otherwise sit with him after his death.

  3. Amanda says:

    30 minutes? A LOT can happen and be said in 30 minutes Myra. Furthermore, you nauseate me. So, a murderer, suspected or not, should be allowed to hold and sit with the person/child they just allegedly murdered? Wake up from dreamland, Myra…for all of our sakes, please.

  4. get real says:

    Enough with this psycho-babble non-sense hired by the defense mind you. Either you admit to something you do or don’t. You have to be pretty foolish not to ask for an attorney before you answer questions on any charge, let alone a murder charge. And to believe anything the police are trying to sell you during an interrogation is ridiculous. Now this guy, who I do believe played a role in the death of this child, is going to walk free. Hopefully he uses his second chance wisely….

  5. Myra Snoozlestein says:

    Amanda, NAUSEATE? Get help. The first thing the Judge reads to the jury in this case and every other case that the indictment and charges are not proof of anything. It is people like you who scream the loudest who usually have something to hide; skeltons in their own closet. Just my own life observation. Assume he is innocent as he is presumed to be by law. He should have been allowed to do whatever any other parent is allowed to do when a child dies. He was not charged with anything at that point. The judge did not allow the testimony of the Expert for the defense. I am confident that if the jury watched the tape, they will know he was lying. If he is guilty he will get what he deserves. Until he is found guilty he is innocent.

  6. Amanda says:

    1. To become affected with nausea
    2. To feel disgust

  7. Myra Snoozlestein says:

    Amanda, maybe you should get back in your trailer and lie down then.

  8. Amanda says:

    Whatever you say, Myra. We’ll see what happens to this murderer and then you can eat your words.

  9. Got 2b Real says:

    Come on Myra, and Amanda, no need for personal attacks on each other.

    Amanda, from what I’ve learned in criminal justice, this confession should be called into question. The detectives knew what they were doing. Detectives are smart. They know how to work an individual to get confessions out of them. For good and bad. It’s good because the truly evil people will be confessing to their crimes. However it’s bad because there’s a chance that the nieve “innocent” people will be coerced into incriminating themselves.

  10. Myra Snoozlestein says:

    Well said, Got2bReal. And a person is presumed innocent. The fact that our society has totally given up on that idea is what makes me react.
    I am sure the jury will reach the right conclusion either way.

  11. countrygirl says:

    Wow–bad day Amanda? Myra and Got2b make valid points; there is a strong case here for “reasonable doubt”; we’ll see how the jury sees it.

  12. Ruth says:

    If he was really distraught about his son just dying and he had nothing to do with the death, he would have been bawling at the police station not answering any questions. Do you think if he sat there and didn’t say a word they would have kept him there that long? If he had demanded to be released to see his son? If he had asked for an attorney?

  13. Amanda says:

    Ruth – exactly.

  14. Myra Snoozlestein says:

    People, they told him his son was alive. What you’re saying doesn’t make sense. When Mr. Glass was demonstrating the throwing of the book, he carefully left out the arm swings and placing his hands in his pocket as the defendant did. It is up to the jury and then possibly the appeals court. Seems to me the Expert should have been allowed to testify as to false confessions made by defendant with promises of seeing his son who he believed was still alive.

  15. dabears says:

    There is a difference between being found “not guilty” and being “innocent”. Merely an observation.

  16. Cfoote says:

    Well said dabears.. OJ was found not guilty. That didn’t make him innocent

  17. Lee says:


    The Expert had nothing to back up his self proclaimed expert status. That is why the judge wouldn’t allow it. And rightfully so!

  18. Laurie says:

    Good thing I’m not on the jury because this guy would be going to jail!!!!! He’s a murderer.

  19. Lee says:


    Speak now please!

  20. DaveToo says:

    Amanda – 1 Myra – 0

  21. Myra Snoozlestein says:

    DaveToo, a person is innocent until proven guilty. Maybe pending criminal cases do not belong in the blogs. You people prejudged this case and more than likely the jury did as well. Albany Medical is not usually very good at identifying or treating Traumatic Brain injury. As in every legal case, medical opinions are bought and paid for. After seeing the wife on t.v., I still have my doubts as to who, if anyone threw the child. Who knew CPS had numerous calls on this family? I didn’t. I stand by my belief that a person is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. The jury heard all of the evidence and it does appear to me they seemed to be deadlocked for a while. Maybe we will know how they arrived at their verdict as they are able to speak now. If the detectives didn’t act so sleezy, maybe there wouldn’t not be a much reasonable doubt.

  22. DaveToo says:

    Myra, may we also assume that all of the state workers you constantly accuse of wrongdoing and malfeasance are also innocent, or just guilty in the wacky world of Myra Snoozlestein’s courts?

    While I agree that “innocent until proven guilty” is a course that any juror MUST undertake, the court of public opinion is free to render any verdict they like. Face it, you chose the wrong side in the public court and still try to defend your reasoning. Sorry, there is no appeal process in the public court.

  23. Myra Snoozlestein says:

    The only side I choose in this particular case was that this man was presumed innocent until he was found guilty. That is under theory you have imaginary or otherwise. If you want know about the corruption in New York State Government, read the papers, DaveToo. If you have ever worked in a state office, you know as well as everyone else what goes on. There is no public court in a criminal case. And now that there are blogs, maybe we need to start sequestering the jury again the entire time. And DaveTOO, the, “Public Court,” is just public opinion. Unless each blogger is able to sit in each day as a court observer it is just speculation. My theory that a person is innocent in a criminal matter, of a specific charge is automatic. Don’t mix apples and oranges. We all know New York State is corrupt. If you believe that I am the first person to speak of what goes on at OSC or any other state agency put down your drink and start reading.

  24. Autumn Rose Clark says:

    WOW. This is really unbelievable. KUDOS to all of you who recognize that Myra Lives in her own world. I should know i am her former daughter. how embarrassing mother. Not only our we telling you that you are vulgar and disturbing to others, now STRANGERS are telling you too. I am not shocked just sickened. Oh and Myra doesn’t have a job folks. NYS fired her twice. “Whistleblower” try “troublemaker”. She accuses everyone of needing “help” LOL hilarious. Disturbing to know that you all are used to her sick rants and posts. No idea it was going on this long. She even does this in dead persons guestbooks. It is disgusting. She has multiple mental illnesses as you can read from her posts. What a shame. As for her trailer comment. She has nerve to talk…..she lives in a hud house in the ghetto. She attempts to identify herself as some sort of “official” she isn’t. She is alone and desperate and has many skeletons in her own closet.

  25. Chun Mozer says:
