The corrupt coaching of a key witness by a police detective, and the failure of prosecutors to turn over information that the witness knew nothing about the crime, has led a federal appeals court to uphold the release of a man convicted of a double murder 20 years ago.
May 15, 2015 at 11:00 AM
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The corrupt coaching of a key witness by a police detective, and the failure of prosecutors to turn over information that the witness knew nothing about the crime, has led a federal appeals court to uphold the release of a man convicted of a double murder 20 years ago.
Scott Lewis was convicted in 1995 on the word of a single witness of the 1990 murders of Ricardo Turner, a convicted drug felon and former city alderman in New Haven, Connecticut, and his companion, Lamont Fields.
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