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US inmate's golf drawings lead to freedom
I mean seriously what the fuck....
A US convict whose talent for art caught the eye of a prison warden, ultimately leading to a review of his case, has been exonerated of murder.
Mr Dixon, 48, had maintained his innocence during 27 years behind bars for a shooting in Buffalo, New York.
Mr Dixon was handed a minimum 38-year-to-life sentence for killing 17-year-old Torriano Jackson one night in August 1991, after an argument over a girl.
He acknowledged being at the crime scene, but said he was at a nearby shop buying beer when the gunshots rang out.
Mr Dixon said multiple witnesses could have testified he did not fire the gun.
But his trial lawyer did not call any of them as several had been accused of perjury.
Unusually, the investigating homicide detective did not testify during the trial either.
But a more serious flaw in the case was uncovered by Georgetown University's Prisons and Justice Initiative.
Prosecutors had omitted to reveal to Mr Dixon's defence attorney that a gunpowder test on his client's clothes had come back negative.
Perhaps even more egregiously, another man, Lamarr Scott, admitted to local media only days after the murder that he shot Torriano Jackson.
One of the many reasons why I'm against the death penalty. The system can be absolute horse shit at times.... but Jesus.... another bloke admitted to the murder and they still prosecute you
I mean seriously what the fuck....
A US convict whose talent for art caught the eye of a prison warden, ultimately leading to a review of his case, has been exonerated of murder.
Mr Dixon, 48, had maintained his innocence during 27 years behind bars for a shooting in Buffalo, New York.
Mr Dixon was handed a minimum 38-year-to-life sentence for killing 17-year-old Torriano Jackson one night in August 1991, after an argument over a girl.
He acknowledged being at the crime scene, but said he was at a nearby shop buying beer when the gunshots rang out.
Mr Dixon said multiple witnesses could have testified he did not fire the gun.
But his trial lawyer did not call any of them as several had been accused of perjury.
Unusually, the investigating homicide detective did not testify during the trial either.
But a more serious flaw in the case was uncovered by Georgetown University's Prisons and Justice Initiative.
Prosecutors had omitted to reveal to Mr Dixon's defence attorney that a gunpowder test on his client's clothes had come back negative.
Perhaps even more egregiously, another man, Lamarr Scott, admitted to local media only days after the murder that he shot Torriano Jackson.
One of the many reasons why I'm against the death penalty. The system can be absolute horse shit at times.... but Jesus.... another bloke admitted to the murder and they still prosecute you
