It turns out that even if a YouTube video insists that it's "well
researched" in narration, that may not actually be true.

I watched a video about the hype about Marcellus Williams; the narrator
flat out calls the hype "lies" and condemns all the lawyers' working on post-conviction appeals for deliberately misrepresenting evidence. And
he condemns the media for not doing its own reporting.

He claims to have read all the court documents.

Felicia Gayle was a former newspaper reporter with the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch. She was murdered in her own home in University City,
Missouri, on August 11, 1998, during a home invasion. She had four dozen
stab wounds.

Marcellus Williams had a long criminal history and was identified by two witnesses nearly a year after the murder, having confessed to both of
them.

University City is a suburb immediately west of St. Louis in suburban
St. Louis County, the county seat of which is Clayton. St. Louis itself
is independent of county government. The university referenced is
Washington University.

Because it was a death penalty case, there were lots of lawyers
interested in working on appeals. The two main witnesses for the
prosecution were condemned for bias, as one wanted the award offered by
the family and the other was under threat of charges in unrelated
crimes. DNA was found on the knife that wasn't Williams that turned out
to belong to prosecution lawyers handling the evidence during trial.
Williams was thought to have been wearing gloves during the home
invasion. Physical evidence from the home was found in Williams' car and
a stolen laptop sold to a neighbor was also recovered.

The appeals got national publicity during 2024. For several years, the
governor and state attorney general had been pushing for Williams'
execution for political reasons. In 2023, the Midwest Innocence Projecct
had gotten involved, then the ultimate weirdness of the county
prosecutor, who made a campaign promise not to seek the death penalty, intervened on behalf of Williams. This was bizarre because there was no suggestion of government misconduct before ore during the original
trial. Because of this, the state attorney general took over appeals on
behalf of the prosecution.

Also, the state supreme court refused to stay the execution despite
another hearing on actual innocence. Williams was executed later in
2024.

I hope that's enough to refresh your memory.

The video was absurdly sloppy. Early in the video, both narration and
title card state that the crime took place in Universal City, Missouri.
At one point, he shows a stock photo of the St. Louis CITY courthouse.

Worst of all, he spends time condemning the Innocence Project which was
founded by the two lawyers defending O.J. that specialized in forsensic evidence, Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck, and refered to O.J.'s lawyers.
But Midwest Innocence Project is an unrelated entity. Both are part of
the Innocence Network, so there is resource sharing.

The video got so many important basic facts wrong that it's impossible
to take his criticisms seriously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sQQ2n1VH4E

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