The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday granted a writ of habeas corpus to a New Jersey man who has been in prison for more than two decades on a conviction of murder by association.
The three-judge panel that ordered the writ criticized a New Jersey state appeals court for not recognizing an obvious lack of credible evidence against Paul Kamienski, 61, now serving a life sentence for his alleged participation in the 1983 shooting deaths of a Florida couple with whom he was brokering a cocaine deal.
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