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Dunn is optimistic about his freedom but also cautious: “I've been down this road before.”
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The motion says new DNA evidence, plus the lack of other credible evidence supporting the verdict, cast “inexorable doubt on Mr. Williams’ conviction and sentence.”
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Because Gov. Mike Parson dissolved a board of inquiry established in 2017, the Missouri Supreme Court is free to set an execution date for Marcellus Williams, even if St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell has not yet finished his review of the case.
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Johnson had long maintained he did not shoot and kill Marcus Boyd in 1994. A judge ruled last year that “clear and convincing” evidence showed Johnson was innocent and freed him after 28 years.
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“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings, and that's the way I've got to look at life,” Johnson said. “I’m happy to have my life back, and I'm going to try to make the best of it.”
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A Missouri judge says no jury today would convict Christopher Dunn. Why is he still in prison?
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"The Court's confidence in Strickland's conviction is so undermined that it cannot stand," the judge wrote. Strickland's wrongful imprisonment for nearly 43 years is among the country's longest.
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The Missouri Supreme Court ruled against Lamar Johnson on March 2. The St. Louis man has been helped by the Midwest Innocence Project and the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office in seeking his freedom after 26 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit. Attorney Lindsay Runnels discussed his next steps on "St. Louis on the Air."
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The Missouri Supreme Court is considering whether prosecutors have the power to try to fix what they believe are wrongful convictions in decades-old…
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Updated Dec. 11 with oral argumentsThe ability of prosecutors in Missouri to undo wrongful convictions they discover is in the hands of a state appeals…