Prior Day #22 Link and Data HERE

Day #23 provides an interview by WMCAction5 with District Attorney John Champion. Unfortunately this interview highlights a dangerous aspect in the quest for Justice 4 Jessica.
From the outset we have held concern regarding the absence of a lead investigator for the murder of Jessica Chambers. Despite the claims of numerous agencies assisting: Panola County Sheriff, Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, ATF, US Marshals and FBI, we are also familiar with the issues which exist when cases are absent of a specific “lead investigator”.
In the interview Panola County DA, John Champion, states that he is the lead investigator.
Which finally provides a specific person of accountability as we ponder who assigns the day-to-day activity tasks. However, this also creates an issue where the District Attorney is both the lead investigator, and the criminal prosecutor of the case.
The issues become stark almost immediately when you watch the interview:

One of those issues is brutally obvious. DA Champion claims “investigators from the Sheriffs office” returned to the M&M gas station to watch the CCTV video after WMCAction5 brought additional information to their attention Tuesday 12/9/14. However, in the following sentence he also says “but we had already secured, (taken), the CCTV hard drives prior to that return visit”.
The painfully obvious misstatement lie is the Sheriff’s office could not watch the CCTV monitor at the gas station for video, if the CCTV hard drives containing the video were removed and stored at the sheriffs office. Neither could the reporter watch the video on 12/9/14 if the hard drives where removed.
Essentially we have a pretty good idea what John Champion is doing, and why he’s doing it. Champion is trying to cover for the sheriff, and as a consequence himself, because we previously exposed (Day #6) the Sheriff’s investigators filming the CCTV screen for their evidence footage.

Instead of collecting the raw data, the investigators exposed themselves to collecting compromised footage possibly containing edits, and/or manipulation, provided as a consequence of another party controlling what is visible on screen.
It was after that viral exposure the Sheriffs office went back to the gas station and removed the recording system, taking custody of the CCTV hard drives.
However, if Champion is willing to lie, to a simple media inquiry, in order to, well, put his investigation in a better light, the obvious question expands toward what else -during the investigative phase- is he willing to lie about?
Remember, Champion is both the “investigator” and the “prosecutorial decision maker” of the case based on the investigative finding.
This is why it is absolutely dangerous to have the DA lead a capital crime investigation.
The prosecutor is now on public record, lying misleading the media about the collection of evidence in the case he is investigating. Automatically this creates a golden ticket for any defense attorney to question the integrity of the investigation itself.
This is why investigators and the District Attorney, who makes decisions based on the evidence within the investigation, should have a degree of separation. Any integrity issues with evidence now carry over into the integrity of the legal prosecution.
As a consequence of being both the investigator and the prosecutorial decision maker, the merits of the contaminated evidence are not isolated to the investigation – they now taint the prosecution itself; particularly when those contaminants are based on a lie, or series of lies, from the office of the prosecuting official.
This is not the first time evidence in this case has essentially been contaminated by poor investigative practices even before a suspect is identified. The lack of an escort for the primary physical evidence, the burned vehicle, has created a break in the chain of custody for the vehicle evidence itself.

The tow truck driver, carrying the burned vehicle of Jessica Chambers, stopping for cigarettes at the M&M gas station at 9:30pm, without police escort, leading to gas station owner Ali Alsanai having unrestricted access to the evidence and taking pictures, essentially destroys the merit of any evidentiary value ever being used in court.
Any decent attorney would be able to get the vehicle as physical vehicle evidence thrown out prior to courtroom use due to the obvious possibility of contamination.

Now some people might ask why the heck we bring up these issues because they undermine the objective of an arrest and conviction for the murder of Jessica Chambers, so allow me to explain.
These issues exist regardless of whether or not we point them out.  Our pointing them out does not create the risk, the existence of the risk exists because of the flawed logic and process behind the investigative authority.
The best way to deal with the risk is to drag it out into the sunlight and eliminate it before it becomes an escape route, a technicality, for the person(s) who did this horrific crime.
It is simply stunning to think the fire department showed up on the crime scene at 8:13pm to a burning car and felony murder victim, only to have the evidence from the crime scene show up at 9:30pm in a gas station.
Seriously, what kind of comprehensive murder crime scene evaluation can take place in about an hour, at night?
Lastly, from this Champion interview you can see the time of Jessica Chambers visit to the M&M gas station confirmed at 6:30pm.   So the question becomes, why did station owner Ali Ansanai state the CCTV time stamps were incorrect and Jessica was there at 5:30pm.   Why did Ansanai try to change the time of her visit?