08-04-2010, 09:37 AM
i waited with him when a jury was determining whether he would receive death penalty. this was a great guy and detective. he had intended to run for Sheriff of Jax.
i will never be sure if he did this.
but we were friends.
you can read all of the case details here> click> Waldon
Cop Convicted Of Murder Files Appeal
August 3, 2010
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Eight years after a former police officer found guilty of killing a man and a dozen other crimes, he has filed an appeal claiming he was wrongly convicted.
Karl Waldon was a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office narcotics detective when he was accused of staking out, robbing and killing a man in 1998. He was arrested as part of the biggest police corruption case in the city's history: four officers arrested on charges of stealing drugs and money from dealers; two of them charged with murder.
Waldon was convicted of killing Sami Safar, a Jacksonville businessman who disappeared after withdrawing $51,000 from a bank.
Prosecutors said Waldon choked Safar in the back seat of his police cruiser, stole his money and dumped his body several miles away.
Waldon was convicted in November 1998 on 14 of 15 federal charges and later sentenced to four life sentences.
On Monday, Waldon filed a motion saying his case should not have been tried in federal court and is asking a judge to throw out his conviction and sentence.
Waldon filed the motion on his own behalf. Channel 4 was told he had spent much of the past eight years reading law books.
The U.S. Attorney's Office has two weeks to respond to the motion.
i will never be sure if he did this.
but we were friends.
you can read all of the case details here> click> Waldon
Cop Convicted Of Murder Files Appeal
August 3, 2010
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Eight years after a former police officer found guilty of killing a man and a dozen other crimes, he has filed an appeal claiming he was wrongly convicted.
Karl Waldon was a Jacksonville Sheriff's Office narcotics detective when he was accused of staking out, robbing and killing a man in 1998. He was arrested as part of the biggest police corruption case in the city's history: four officers arrested on charges of stealing drugs and money from dealers; two of them charged with murder.
Waldon was convicted of killing Sami Safar, a Jacksonville businessman who disappeared after withdrawing $51,000 from a bank.
Prosecutors said Waldon choked Safar in the back seat of his police cruiser, stole his money and dumped his body several miles away.
Waldon was convicted in November 1998 on 14 of 15 federal charges and later sentenced to four life sentences.
On Monday, Waldon filed a motion saying his case should not have been tried in federal court and is asking a judge to throw out his conviction and sentence.
Waldon filed the motion on his own behalf. Channel 4 was told he had spent much of the past eight years reading law books.
The U.S. Attorney's Office has two weeks to respond to the motion.