Mom and private investigator insist her son is innocent of murder charges.
New Hampshire - Jesse Brooks, part of a father-son team convicted in connection with the murder of a Derry trash hauler, plans to request a new trial, claiming he has an alibi for the time when the murder plan was hatched and that jailhouse telephone conversations will exonerate him, according to a paid investigator.
"If there is a judge in New Hampshire who will give us a fair hearing to lay out the facts and let us call witnesses, Jesse Brooks is walking out of the penitentiary with an apology," Chicago investigator Paul Ciolino told the New Hampshire Union Leader Thursday.
Ciolino, who has spent decades pursuing wrongful conviction investigations and is a frequent television contributor, and Jesse Brooks' mother, Lorraine, plan to appear at a news conference at a Manchester hotel Monday to discuss the case.
A team of hired investigators displayed copies of receipts backing up those claims and said Brooks’ former defense lawyers erred in ignoring what they called a ‘‘rock-solid’’ alibi at his trial. They also suggested police and prosecutors failed to do basic investigating that would have revealed the truth and instead relied on testimony from other players in the crime who had reason to falsely implicate Brooks.
‘‘They may as well have hired Lance Armstrong as their speaker, because it was lie after lie on top of lie,’’ said investigator Paul Ciolino. ‘‘This case is not about conspiracy to commit murder. Jesse Brooks is in jail because his name is Brooks, that’s it.’’
Jesse Brooks, formerly of Londonderry, was convicted in 2009 of helping recruit men to lure Jack Reid, 57, to a Deerfield horse barn, where he was beaten to death in 2005. Brooks is serving a 15- to 30-year prison term.
Brooks' father, John "Jay" Brooks, was convicted of capital murder and is serving life in prison without the chance of parole for his role in murdering Reid, whom he wrongly believed stole two of his moving trucks. The elder Brooks is a Derry native whose medical supply company made him a multi-millionaire; he was well-known in Republican Party circles during the 1990s.
Ciolino said Jesse Brooks was in a Clark County courthouse in Las Vegas on a gun charge at the time that Joseph Vrooman testified the murder plan was hatched with Jesse and John Brooks at the Brooks' home, about a dozen miles from the courthouse.
"The biggest development (in Jesse Brooks' defense) is the destroying of this so-called meeting that never happened," said Ciolino.
He said he has the docket sheet from the courthouse that states that Jesse Brooks was present. He said that the younger Brooks later went to a doctor's office and then to a Walgreens drug store to pick up a prescription.
"The whole case was based on lies," he said.
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