Jens Soering

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Jens Soering (born August 1, 1966 in Bangkok , Thailand ) is a German national who was sentenced to two life imprisonment in the US state of Virginia for double murder. He himself has denied the act since the trial. On December 17, 2019, he was released on parole after 33 years in prison and was deported to Germany.

Life

Jens Soering was born in Thailand to a German diplomat and came to the United States with his parents at the age of 11 . In 1984 he began studying at the University of Virginia and fell in love with two years older Canadian student Elizabeth Haysom . On March 30, 1985, their parents, Derek and Nancy Haysom, were murdered in their home. A neighbor found the dead a few days later. Nancy Haysom was in the kitchen, her husband Derek between the dining and living room. Both heads had almost been separated from their torsos. They had apparently eaten and drunk with their killer beforehand.

When the police extended their investigation to Soering, he fled the United States with Haysom in October. On April 30, 1986, the couple were arrested in London for check fraud. Both initially confessed to the double murder, but Soering later withdrew his confession.

After her extradition to the US state of Virginia , Elizabeth Haysom accused Jens Soering of murder and confessed herself guilty of incitement to murder; for this she was sentenced to 90 years in prison in Virginia. Jens Soering, who protested his innocence after the trial in Virginia , was extradited from Great Britain to Virginia (USA) in 1990 after a landmark decision by the European Court of Human Rights on the condition that he would not be sentenced to death, where he was sentenced to twice life imprisonment .

The process

Before court Soering testified that he had his girlfriend, who had committed the murders, his confession before the death penalty want to preserve. He believed that, like his father, he would enjoy diplomatic immunity and, in the worst case, after extradition in Germany , he would be sentenced under juvenile law and would have to serve (only) five years in prison. For the public prosecutor , on the basis of a long chain of circumstantial evidence and the knowledge of the perpetrators revealed from Soering's police interrogation, only Soering was considered as a perpetrator. Soering's statement that he learned the perpetrator knowledge from his girlfriend on the long escape was not believed. His girlfriend Elizabeth Haysom is at best an instigator. With this version, the public prosecutor's office won over the jury at the end of an emotionally charged trial that was broadcast live on television .

Controversy over conviction

Critics view the evidence that led to Soering's conviction as dubious. According to a public statement by a member of the jury , a few days after the verdict, the decisive evidence was a sock print found at the scene of the crime, which the investigating officials said came from von Soering. Before the presentation of this index, he said the vote was 6 to 6. Unanimity is required for a conviction.

The judge in the process declared Soering guilty in an interview before the process began and was also personally acquainted with the victims' families. In the opinion of a higher court, however, the judge's conduct was in conformity with the law (judgment of October 9, 1991, The Court of Appeals of Virginia).

Richard Neaton, one of Jens Soering's two attorneys at law, lost his license to practice some time after the trial for reasons unrelated to Soering's case. He also admitted that he had a drug problem when substituting for Jens Soering.

According to some people familiar with the case, the investigation was initially FBI - profiler Ed Sulzbach consulted Service. In his report, he came to the conclusion that the murders had been committed by a woman who was close to the victims and that Elizabeth Haysom was therefore the most likely perpetrator. The chief investigator Gardner denies that such a perpetrator profile was created by Ed Sulzbach. No such perpetrator profile was presented during the trial. FBI criminal profiles are not acceptable as evidence in the US.

During the process, an FBI appraiser was requested by the prosecution to be an expert in analyzing footprints. This request was denied by the judges because the FBI appraiser did not specialize in analyzing footprints. For this reason, the expert was only allowed to claim that the print was comparable to Soering's foot ( consistent ). The public prosecutor's office stated in the closing argument that the sock print was comparable to Soering's foot.

In the FAZ, the American defense attorney Andrew Hammel criticized the coverage of Soering in the German media for suggestive methods and the lack of any approach of neutrality. After studying the case files, Hammel came to the conclusion that Soering was clearly guilty. For example, letters between Soering and Elizabeth Haysom before the crime focussed on violent fantasies and a strong hatred of the murdered parents. At the funeral of the Haysoms, Soering had visible injuries. Before he fled, he also destroyed his fingerprints in his apartment and car. In a travel diary on the run, Haysom noted: “The case will soon be resolved. Perhaps the fingerprints Jens left on a coffee mug [with the police] gave him away… ”In addition, Soering is said to have confessed to the German inmate Mathias Schroeder in 1986 as well. In addition, his confession to the police contained perpetrator knowledge . The now retired police officer Terry Wright, who was responsible for the investigation at the Metropolitan Police in London in 1986 and who had questioned Soering several times at the time, set out in a detailed report in 2019 that Soering had lied extensively since 1990, i.e. made false or misleading statements : Soering was never denied access to a lawyer or to the German embassy, ​​nor did the detailed confessions he made at the time contain the errors he is now referring to. Contrary to Soering's presentation, the DNA report that has meanwhile been obtained by no means proves that two unknown men were at the scene.

Several other lawyers and police officers also looked at the Soering case and came to a different conclusion:

  • Former Virginia Assistant Attorney General Gail Starling Marshall was instrumental in the rehabilitation of justice victim Earl Washington Jr. She emphasized that in her entire career she had only encountered two cases in which she was convinced of the innocence of the convicted: Washington and Soering.
  • Attorney Irwin Cotler also focused on solving errors of justice during his tenure as Canada's Justice Minister. After reading Soering's trial protocols, he found: "It is a classic case of a wrongful judgment." In 2019, Cotler took over the mandate for Soering.
  • Chuck Reid was the lead investigator in the Haysom murder case from April 1985 to April 1986. Only then did Ricky Gardner take over the investigation and interrogate Soering in June 1986, assisted by British police officer Terry Wright. Reid told The Washington Post that he was convinced of Soering's innocence and even visited Soering in prison.
  • Ex-FBI Special Agent Stanley J. Lapekas specialized in interrogation, white-collar crime and fraud. He is convinced that Soering did not commit the murders, because: “The investigators lied. There is something fundamentally wrong with this case. "

Virginia-based bestselling author and former criminal defense attorney John Grisham became aware of the case in 2017. As an expert on the local justice system and an expert on wrongful convictions, he came to the conclusion after his research that the conviction of Soering was a tremendous miscarriage of justice. Grisham sees glaring differences between the confession and the scene of the crime and points out that apart from this confession, which in his opinion is clearly false, there is no reliable evidence whatsoever. Since then he has campaigned publicly for the German's release and rehabilitation.

Detention and Further Developments

Jens Soering was in custody from April 30, 1986 to November 26, 2019. He was last imprisoned at Buckingham Correctional Center in Dillwyn, Virginia . In 2001, the United States Supreme Court finally rejected his appeal . Soering fell out with his father, who had supported him until then, and temporarily converted to the Catholic faith.

On September 24, 2009, the Forensic Medicine Institute in Virginia announced the test result ( Certificate of Analysis ), according to which 42 traces of blood were found and tested in Soering's case. However, none of these could be assigned to him or Elizabeth Haysom.

In early August 2010, the Virginia Parole Board rejected Soering's parole request for the sixth time.

On 12 January 2010, four days before his term ended, sent Governor Timothy M. Kaine a letter to the Attorney General ( United States Attorney General ) Eric Holder , in which he asked for the custody transfer of Soering to Germany. Soering would have to spend two more years in prison in Germany before he could be released on parole - after 26 years in prison. Germany had previously given a corresponding assurance. However, the new governor Robert F. McDonnell also sent a letter to Attorney General Holder on January 19, 2010, in which he withdrew the request for transfer. In the following six months there was a tug-of-war over the progress of the proceedings, in the course of which the Parliament of Virginia voted unanimously against the transfer and Holder was heard before the US Congress .

On July 7, 2010, Holder announced that the Justice Department would not pursue the transfer until an incumbent governor spoke out in favor of it or a court determined that the decision to transfer detention by ex-Governor Kaine would be binding on his successors.

On January 18, 2011, Soering's new attorney, Steven D. Rosenfield, filed a lawsuit seeking transfer to Germany; On January 19, 2011, Soering's attorney, Gail A. Ball, sent Governor McDonnell a pardon based on DNA results.

In February 2011, Markus Löning , Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid , visited Jens Soering.

At the end of July 2011, his parole application, which, in the opinion of his lawyers, was based on exonerating DNA tests and a testimony, was rejected.

At the beginning of 2012, the then President of the European Parliament , Jerzy Buzek , wrote to the Governor of Virginia and asked for Soering to be extradited to the Federal Republic . At the end of June 2012, a US court rejected Soering's relinquishment suit.

In June 2012, 54 members of the German Bundestag turned to the governor of Virginia , Robert McDonnell , on the initiative of the spokesman for human rights of the SPD parliamentary group , Christoph Strässer , with the request that Soering be transferred to German custody. They did not get an answer from McDonnell. The US embassy in Berlin , which had received a copy, did not issue a confirmation of receipt.

On August 31, 2012, eleven days before the parole commission met to decide on Soering's parole for the eighth time, Strässer received from the chairman of this commission, William Muse, a rejection of the request made to agree to Soering's parole and extradition. On October 3, 2012, Soering's probation committee rejected the request.

In the summer of 2014, over 160 members of the German Bundestag again wrote a letter to the incumbent Governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe , in favor of Soering's transfer to Germany.

In August 2016, Soering started another attempt. Soering's twelfth application for parole was rejected by the responsible commission in December 2016. On August 22, 2016, Soering submitted a request for an "absolute pardon" to the Governor of Virginia, Terry McAuliffe.

Andrew Griffiths, according to Soering's attorney Rosenfield an expert on police interrogation techniques and confessions, analyzed four months tapes and records and concluded that British and American investigators had broken a number of British laws, partly because Soering in incommunicado detention held him and the Contact with his lawyer was forbidden.

On May 3, 2017, JE "Chip" Harding, the incumbent Republican Sheriff of Albemarle County , issued a 19-page public letter to Governor McAuliffe calling for Soering to be released immediately. Harding said he had spent over 200 hours reviewing the case and concluded that Soering was innocent. On September 27, 2017, Harding held a press conference in the Soering case, which could be seen live on the Internet. At this press conference, Harding presented further results of his ongoing investigation. In his second public letter to the governor, he stated that he was convinced that "Mr. Soering did not murder Derek and Nancy Haysom and was not at the scene at the time of the murders". Detective Sergeant (retired) Richard L. Hudson, Jr., who assisted Sheriff Harding in his investigation, presented his own investigation results at the press conference. In his letter to the governor, Hudson wrote that "the evidence leads to the conclusion that Mr. Soering is innocent in the Haysom murders". J. Thomas McClintock, one of the top 15 recognized experts in serology and DNA in the United States , had checked all forensic data and files. He was present at the press conference and shared the results of his research. These are in line with the results obtained by Moses Schanfield, a forensics professor and forensic expert who also checked the forensic data and files, in May 2017. Schanfield had stated in an expert opinion from May 2017 that "Soering must be excluded as the carrier of the unidentified traces of blood that had been found at the crime scene" and that "the DNA indicates that two unknown men left their blood at the crime scene". Schanfield wrote an addendum to this report, which was presented at the press conference. According to him, this addendum contains additional observations that significantly reinforce his previous research results.

Soering's 13th hearing before the parole board took place on October 10, 2017. The former Federal President Christian Wulff and the German Ambassador Peter Wittig traveled to Virginia to campaign for Soering's dismissal. Immediately after the hearing, Wittig informed the assembled press: “We are firmly convinced of Jens Soering's innocence. We want him to be returned to Germany and we take full responsibility for his future ”.

On January 30, 2019, Soering's 14th pardon was rejected.

Deported to Germany in December 2019

On November 25, 2019, Soering's release on parole and his transfer to Germany were announced. A day later, he was dismissed from the regular prison and in the town of Farmville in detention taken. At the same time, a re-entry ban into the USA was imposed. A full pardon for Soering has been refused. He has been in Germany since December 17, 2019. Elizabeth Haysom was simultaneously released on parole from the Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women in Troy, Virginia. She was deported to her home country Canada on January 22, 2020 .

Publications

Book publications

Soering has published books and articles on topics such as meditation , centering prayer , justice, and prison conditions in the United States. His book The Convict Christ (dt. Do not judge, so that you will not be judged ) received the first prize of the Catholic Press Association of North America in 2007 in the category "Social Concerns".

  • The Way of the Prisoner. Breaking the Chains of Self Through Centering Prayer and Centering Practice. Lantern Books, New York 2003, ISBN 1-59056-055-8 .
    • German translation: Repeat a word in silence. Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh 2009, ISBN 978-3-579-06999-9 .
  • An Expensive Way to Make Bad People Worse. An Essay on Prison Reform from an Insider's Perspective. Lantern Books, New York 2004, ISBN 1-59056-076-0 .
  • The Convict Christ. What the Gospel Says about Criminal Justice. Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY 2006, ISBN 1-57075-648-1 .
    • German translation: Do not judge so that you will not be judged. Echter Verlag, Würzburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-429-03024-7 .
  • The Church of the Second Chance. A Faith-Based Approach to Prison Reform. Lantern Books, New York 2008, ISBN 1-59056-112-0 .
  • A day in the life of the 179212. Gütersloh publishing house, Gütersloh 2008, ISBN 978-3-579-06997-5 .
  • Not guilty! - How I fell victim to the US justice system. Droemer, March 2012, ISBN 978-3-426-27579-5 .
    • Paperback edition: Twice life sentences - How I have been fighting for my freedom for three decades. Knaur, October 2016, ISBN 978-3-426-78543-0 .
    • Not guilty! - 33 years in US imprisonment for a crime I did not commit. Knaur, updated edition December 2019, with a Jens Soering foreword from the end of 2019, ISBN 978-3-426-78543-0 .
    • English translation: A Far, Far Better Thing. Lantern Books, New York, February 2017, ISBN 978-1-59056-564-3 , (with prefaces by Bill Sizemore and Martin Sheen ).
  • Son of the Promise , ISBN 978-3-7394-7552-3 . (The first novel by Jens Soering, published as an eBook on November 18, 2019.)

media

  • In the German news magazine Der Spiegel , issue No. 10 from February 29, 2020, Jens Söring in a Spiegel conversation in a 9-page report.
  • On May 14, 2020, Jens Soering and the lawyer and criminologist Bernd Maelicke were guests on the ZDF talk show Markus Lanz .
  • On August 4, 2020, ZDFinfo broadcast the documentary Killing for Love - The Jens Soering case .

Podcasts

In connection with Jens Soering's case, several z. Some extensive podcasts are published.

documentary

On October 27, 2016, the documentary The Promise was released in German cinemas.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Soering, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German citizen, imprisoned for double homicide in Virginia (USA)
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Bangkok , Thailand