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    Crosley Alexander Green - Florida


    Victim Charles "Chip" Flynn, 22


    Crosley Green in 2015 (left) and in 1989 (right)

    Crosley Green in April 2023



    Former Florida Death Row Inmate Crosley Green Asks Orlando Federal Court To Overturn His Conviction: Crowell & Moring Files Habeas Corpus


    WASHINGTON -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Crowell & Moring LLP has petitioned a federal court in Orlando, Fla., to overturn the conviction of former death row inmate Crosley Green. The filing for writ of habeas corpus asserts that no direct evidence ties Green to the 1989 murder of Charles "Chip" Flynn, Jr., and that newly discovered evidence demonstrates Green was wrongfully convicted.

    "This is a case about innocence. Crosley Green has spent 24 years of his life in prison based on a wrongful conviction and a trial that violated several of his Constitutional rights," said Crowell & Moring partner Keith J. Harrison, lead attorney for Green.

    The filing points to several key factors that demonstrate Green was wrongfully convicted, including ten alibi witnesses who place Green miles away from the murder, and the similarities between Green's case and the cases of three other men convicted in criminal trials in Brevard County, all of whom have been exonerated after years of incarceration. The brief also points to exculpatory evidence withheld by the prosecution and the recantations of four of the prosecution's star witnesses.

    The ABA Death Penalty Project referred Green's case to Crowell & Moring. In 2008, Crowell & Moring successfully argued before the Florida Supreme Court that Green should be removed from death row.

    Having exhausted state appeals, Crowell & Moring lawyers have petitioned the Orlando Division of the Middle District of Florida for a writ of habeas corpus, which would either secure Green's release from prison and entitle him to a new trial or provide for an evidentiary hearing, which would allow the team to present new evidence discovered since the time of Green's trial to the court.

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    Inmate's Death-row Campaign Backfires

    A Drive To Free Crosley Green Led To New Dna Evidence That Authorities Say Proves He Killed.

    By Laurin Sellers
    The Orlando Sentinel

    TITUSVILLE -- Despite a national campaign to free him, new DNA evidence proves that death-row inmate Crosley Green is exactly where he belongs, authorities said Wednesday.

    Two hairs found in the truck of murder victim Chip Flynn match Green's DNA, State Attorney Norm Wolfinger said. It was a key piece of evidence uncovered by an 11-month investigation by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that was requested by Wolfinger after doubts about Green's guilt surfaced.

    "The DNA match puts Crosley Green in that truck," Wolfinger said. "Obviously we don't have an innocent man on death row. We have the right man."

    Even so, Paul Ciolino, a Chicago private investigator who assembled a team of colleagues to delve into the killing, said Wednesday that his fight to free Green will continue.

    "We are unwavering in our support of Green," said Ciolino, who questioned the DNA results and criticized the private lab that performed the tests.

    Flynn's family, however, was relieved by the results.

    "It just proved what we already knew," said Charlie Flynn, the victim's father.

    On the night of April 3, 1989, Chip Flynn, then 22, had gone to Holder Park in Mims with a former girlfriend, Kim Hallock.

    Hallock said the two were parked in Flynn's truck, away from the crowd that had gathered to watch several ballgames.

    A man later identified as Green approached the couple, robbed them at gunpoint and then forced them to drive to an orange grove.

    Flynn, whose hands had been tied behind his back, was shot in the early hours of April 4, 1989, but Hallock managed to escape in the truck. Green was later convicted and sentenced to death.

    But the private investigators, dubbed the "Dream Team" during an hourlong segment of the CBS magazine show 48 Hours, brought the case into the national spotlight.

    Wolfinger asked the FDLE to re-examine the case after Ciolino's team said key witnesses against Green were saying they had lied during his trial.

    The private investigators accused Brevard County sheriff's agents and prosecutors of mishandling the case, claiming key witnesses were "harassed, terrorized, threatened and brow-beaten into giving false testimony.''

    But in its probe, the FDLE said tests not available in 1989 found that DNA from two hairs found in Flynn's truck matched Green's DNA. The tests were performed at an independent laboratory, LabCorp., in Raleigh, N.C.

    Ciolino said Wednesday that the state had performed "the worst kind of DNA test" in a "goofy lab."

    "That kind of test has the highest false-positive test rate of any DNA testing done," Ciolino said. "This is not sour grapes; it's bad science."

    Ciolino said his team will ask that DNA testing be repeated at another lab.

    The FDLE said allegations of law-enforcement and prosecutor misconduct were not substantiated. Green's sister, Sheila Green, and her former boyfriend, Lonnie Hillary, who both testified during the trial that Green admitted the killing, initiated the contact with prosecutors.

    The credibility of recantations by Sheila Green, Lonnie Hillary and Jerome Murray, who also testified that Crosley Green admitted his guilt to him, remain questionable, and there is no evidence that their testimony was false, the FDLE concluded.

    Wolfinger said the FDLE's findings will help resolve issues that are pending in a motion for a new trial that has been filed by Green's attorneys.

    "The system, our office and everybody has been vindicated," he said. "But the more important people in this are the family of Chip Flynn and Kim Hallock. Those private investigators may be a dream team, but this has been a nightmare for these people."

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    Photo line up of Crosley Green where he was the darker image in the middle of the top row. (Photo: FILE)


    Torres: '48 Hours' takes close look at Brevard prosecutors

    By John A. Torres
    Florida Today

    I've always had the advantage of looking at the Crosley Green case from a distance, through court records, hearings and one recanted testimony after another.

    I've known about the case since I started at this newspaper 14 years ago.

    And the one thing that always struck me was how on earth did anyone really believe he received a fair trial? And then I learned about Juan Ramos, Wilton Dedge and William Dillon and came to believe that something was terribly wrong with the Brevard County State Attorney's Office and county law enforcement in the 1980s and early '90s.

    The only conclusions one can draw are that they were either inept or the men they arrested were the unluckiest people in the world.

    They sent Ramos to death row for five years for a murder he never committed. He was found not guilty during a second trial. Dedge and Dillon — as I've documented often — spent 21 and 27 years in prison from crimes they did not commit, either. They were cleared by DNA evidence and received some monetary compensation from the state of Florida.

    They used a dog handler — later discredited — who said his dog was capable of doing things no one else's could, especially when it came to linking suspects to crimes.

    Crosley Green? He had just been released from prison. His own father had killed Green's mother. He was known to the police. He never had a shot at a fair trial.

    They didn't use the dog handler but they did use a police dog named Czar, who despite not having an item of Green's to scent upon, somehow connected him to the crime scene.

    One person who testified against him received help in her child custody case; another received leniency in a federal drug case and her boyfriend went along for the same reason. This all came out later when they recanted their testimony.

    There were no fingerprints or any physical evidence that linked Green to the crime.

    But the most atrocious bit was the photo lineup, which was beyond suggestive. Green's mugshot is smaller and darker than all the rest and located in the middle of the top row. Your eye is drawn to it immediately.

    All those issues have stayed with 48 Hours investigative reporter Erin Moriarty since 1999 when she first reported about Green's case nationally. Now, she's back and taking a broader look at the conduct in the State Attorney's Office during that time.

    "This case has haunted me," she said. "It's just gone on so long. They need to take a new look at this case."

    The State Attorney's Office is obviously not run by the same folks who ran things in the 1980s. State Attorney Phil Archer told me he would be glad to comment on the case and the allegations made after he has seen the show.

    Green's attorney, Keith Harrison with the Washington, D.C.-based firm Crowell & Moring, alleged a pattern of prosecutorial misconduct in filings last year with federal court in Orlando petitioning the court for a new trial or an evidentiary hearing on Green's behalf.

    The court has yet to rule.

    The petition mentions the use of questionable evidence, misstating evidence at trial, suppressing evidence and knowingly using perjured testimony.

    "I've never seen anything like this and that is certainly what caught our attention," Moriarty said. "When we realized that there were these other cases occurring at the same time as the Crosley Green case it gave us more urgency to do his story."

    Added Harrison: "It's a pattern that is too hard to ignore. It's a pattern that is stark."

    Green was convicted of kidnapping and killing Charles "Chip" Flynn in a Mims orange grove in 1989. He spent nearly 20 years on death row — his sentence was later commuted to life — for kidnapping Flynn and his girlfriend, Kim Hallock, after the couple had smoked marijuana and had sex in the groves.

    Hallock's initial description of the killer, that he had jheri-curled hair and was well built, differed from Green's tight afro and slender build. A police sketch of the attacker did not look like Green either.

    What's new in Green's motion and will be aired in Saturday's 48 Hours episode is that the two responding law enforcement officers — retired Brevard County Sheriff's Deputy Mark Rixey and retired Sheriff Patrol Sergeant Diane Clarke — speak out on Green's behalf.

    Both question why Kim Hallock was never considered a suspect.

    "The first rule of a homicide investigation is everybody who was at that scene is treated as a suspect until they're eliminated," said Rixey. "That's not the way this happened."

    No, they didn't keep that information secret until now when 48 Hours came calling. They actually went and told prosecutor Chris White. Notes in the case file reflect his conversation with them. Notes, by the way, that Harrison claims should have been turned over to defense attorneys for witness impeachment purposes.

    According to records, Hallock drove Flynn's pick-up truck out of the orange grove, leaving her wounded boyfriend behind. She then drove to the home of Flynn's best friend, passing a hospital, numerous homes and her parents' house along the way. She told police a "black man" had done it.

    Two hairs found in the truck could not rule Green out after DNA testing but the owner of the truck testified that Green's brother — who has the same mitochondrial DNA — would drive the truck on occasion.

    "The problem," Harrison said, "is there is no DNA evidence to exonerate him."

    Now Harrison and Green wait for the U.S. District Court in Orlando to rule.

    "We can't give up," Harrison said. "We're hopeful the federal court will take a look at all the evidence in this case. This is a case of actual innocence that cries out for justice."

    Even if it does arrive 25 years late.

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    Who is convicted murderer Crosley Green?

    By John A. Torres
    Florida Today

    Who is Crosley Green?

    To date, Florida Department of Corrections inmate No. 902925 will have spent 29 years behind bars.

    Green, a small-time cocaine dealer with one prior prison stint of only six months, was sent to Florida's death row on Feb. 20, 1991, for the murder of Charles "Chip" Flynn. His death sentence was later commuted to life in prison for kidnapping and murder.

    There are many who believe the Titusville man was railroaded and is indeed innocent of the crime that has kept him locked up for the better part of three decades.

    Green, incarcerated at the Hardee Correctional Institution, was granted a new trial July 20, 2018, by the U.S. District court of the Middle District of Florida, citing prosecutorial violations before his trial.

    The court ruled that prosecutors withheld crucial evidence that would have been beneficial to his defense.

    Here's a timeline of Green's case:

    1989: Green was convicted of kidnapping and killing Charles "Chip" Flynn in a Mims orange grove in 1989. He spent nearly 20 years on death row — his sentence was later commuted to life — for kidnapping Flynn and his girlfriend, Kim Hallock, after the couple had smoked marijuana and had sex in the groves.

    March 16, 1989: Crosley Green is released from Madison Correctional Institution.

    April 4, 1989: Charles "Chip" Flynn Jr., 22, is shot in the chest in a Mims orange grove.

    June 8, 1989: Green, 31, is arrested and accused of killing Flynn.

    August to September 1989: A jury finds Green guilty of murder. The next year, Judge John Antoon sentences him to die.

    April 1, 1992: Sheila Green signs an affidavit from prison recanting her testimony against her brother, Crosley Green. Sheila Green says she "was pressured to commit perjury against my brother."

    April 1993: Defense attorney Rob Parker files a motion for a new trial. He points out that Kim Hallock was only "pretty sure" Crosley Green was the suspect. The court takes no action on the motion.

    Early summer 1999: Chicago investigator Paul Ciolino agrees to look into the case after being contacted by Nan Webb, a Viera housewife.

    July 31, 1999: Ciolino and three other investigators from across the U.S. arrive in Brevard to review the case and interview witnesses, jurors and others connected to the case.

    August 1999: Brevard County Sheriff Phil Williams and Assistant State Attorney Chris White meet with Ciolino and agree to review any new information about the Green case.

    2000: Florida Department of Law Enforcement says that a DNA test on two hairs does not rule out Green as the perpetrator and the hair could come from the maternal side of Green's family.

    2002: Green's attorney continues appealing his case, trying to win a new trial.

    2003: A hearing takes place in front of Judge Bruce Jacobus.

    June 2007: Lawyers from both sides square off before the Florida Supreme Court. The state challenges an appellate ruling from 2005, which threw out Green's death sentence.

    October 2007: Florida Supreme Court upholds Green's conviction but says that he should be resentenced.

    2008: The state attorney's office says it no longer will pursue the death sentence for Green.

    2009: Green is resentenced to life.

    2010: Green's attorneys petition for a new trial.

    2011: Despite two new alibi witnesses, Green's petition for a new trial is denied.

    2016: Eighteen months after Green filed a motion for a new trial, citing prosecutorial misconduct, U.S. District Judge Roy Dalton Jr., denies the claim saying it is time barred.

    2017: Green's attorneys win a major appeal with the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruling that Dalton was wrong in denying Green's petition for a new trial because of a technicality.

    2018: Dalton grants a writ of Habeas Corpus, meaning a new trial for Green based on the fact that prosecutor Chris White withheld evidence from Green's attorney Rob Parker that was material to his defense.

    2018: Green's supporters have a Facebook page for him, facebook.com/crosleygreen

    https://www.floridatoday.com/story/n...rer/761378001/
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    Lawyers want Crosley Green freed while the state appeals new trial decision

    Crosley Green should be a free man.

    That's what his attorneys argued in a motion filed Wednesday with the U.S. Middle District Court of Florida, the same court that ruled Green should go free or receive a new trial earlier this year

    Green, 61, has served 29 years of his life sentence for the 1989 murder of Charles "Chip" Flynn and for kidnapping Flynn's former girlfriend, Kim Hallock, from a Mims orange grove. He was originally sentenced to death before his sentence was commuted to life in prison.

    In August, the U.S. Middle District Court of Florida granted Green a new trial saying Green's constitutional rights had been violated when Brevard County prosecutor Chris White suppressed evidence from the defense team. The court gave the state 90 days to retry Green or release him.

    But Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi appealed that ruling a few weeks later and received a stay on the 90-day clock.

    Calling Green an "unconstitutionally incarcerated prisoner" based on the court's August ruling, Green's attorney Keith Harrison of the Washington D.C.-based firm Crowell & Moring, which has represented the Titusville man pro bono for more than a decade, said the court should allow Green to be released on bond until the state's appeal is ruled upon.

    "Mr. Green’s unconstitutional incarceration should not continue pending the State’s appeal," Harrison wrote. "As a model prisoner who poses no risk of flight or public harm, Mr. Green’s continued incarceration constitutes irreparable harm to him, but given the stay, his release poses no harm to the State. And the public interest weighs in favor of Mr. Green’s release."

    Harrison also referenced Green's stellar prison record and included sworn statements from several Florida Corrections officers attesting to Green's behavior.

    One such statement, by Sgt. J. Wallace of Hardee Correctional Institution, referred to Green as "even-keeled" and an "outstanding inmate."

    "I do not think Mr. Green poses any threat to society," Wallace wrote. "In fact, I think he would be just fine going back out into society."

    Green's conviction came under scrutiny after every state witness recanted their testimony against him, saying they were coerced or threatened by the state to testify. Other problems with the case involve the use of a dog tracker who claimed he tracked a pair of sneakers left at the crime scene to Green's house. The problem was the shoes were not Green's.

    A Florida Department of Law Enforcement forensic analysis revealed none of Green's fingerprints on Flynn's truck despite the fact the modified vehicle was raised up meaning you had to hold onto something like a door handle to pull yourself up into it. Also, Hallock claimed that Green drove the vehicle.

    There was also a prejudiced photo lineup and only one bullet or casing found at the scene and it belonged to Flynn's gun.

    Hallock left a mortally injured Flynn at the scene and drove past a hospital, the home she shared with her parents and many other homes before arriving at a friend's house to say Flynn had been shot. And Flynn himself refused to tell responding officers what had occurred saying only to get him out of there and that he wanted to go home.

    But it was the evidence suppressed by White that was enough for the Middle District Court of Florida to grant Green a new trial. The evidence not shared with Green's defense contained statements from the two responding officers saying they believed Hallock and not "some black guy" -- as she claimed -- was responsible for the fatal shooting. White also withheld the fact that Hallock admitted to tying Flynn's hands behind his back.

    In appealing the court's decision, Bondi played down the role of the officers who first responded to the murder scene. "It is unimaginable that the result of the trial would have been different based on the inadmissible testimony of two police officers who only responded to the crime scene in the middle of the night, and had no further participation in the investigation," she wrote.

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    Former Florida Death-Row Prisoner with Innocence Claim Released Pending Outcome of Federal Appeal

    More than 30 years after a Florida judge sentenced him to death following an 8-4 sentencing recommendation by an all-white jury, Crosley Green has been freed.

    Citing Green’s age and health risks related to continued incarceration during the pandemic, Judge Roy B. Dalton of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida on April 7, 2021, ordered Green’s immediate release while a federal appeals court considers prosecutors’ appeal of the district court’s July 2018 decision overturning his conviction.

    “The Court determines that, because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the length of time to resolve Petitioner’s appeal, … Petitioner would be substantially injured since the Court has already reversed his conviction and ordered a new trial,” Dalton wrote. “Additionally, the public has a strong interest in the release of a prisoner whom the Court has found to be incarcerated in violation of the Constitution. The Court finds that the public interest weighs in favor of granting release pending appeal.”

    Green was sentenced to death in 1990 for the 1989 murder of Charles “Chip” Flynn. An all-white jury convicted Green, who is Black. No physical evidence linked him to the crime, and the 1 witness to the crime was the victim’s ex-girlfriend, who first responders initially identified as the likely perpetrator. The two police officers who responded to the crime scene told prosecutors they believed the ex-girlfriend had killed Flynn, but prosecutors withheld their notes from Green’s defense team, denying him access to potentially exculpatory evidence. All 3 witnesses who testified that Green had confessed to the murder later recanted their statements, saying they had been coerced by prosecutors.

    In 2007, the trial court overturned Green’s death sentence, finding that trial counsel had failed to investigate court records that would have disproven the prosecution’s claim that Green had a previous conviction in New York for a crime of violence. The Florida Supreme Court upheld that ruling in 2008 and Green was resentenced to life in 2009.

    His pro bono counsel from the Washington, D.C. law firm Crowell & Moring continued their efforts to overturn Green’s conviction. On July 20, 2018, Judge Dalton overturned Green’s conviction, ruling that the prosecutors’ suppression of exculpatory evidence violated due process. Florida prosecutors appealed that ruling. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit heard argument on the case in March 2020 but has not yet issued a decision.

    “After fighting to prove his innocence for more than three decades, Crosley Green is finally free and will be with his family once again,” said Keith J. Harrison, a partner at Crowell & Moring. “We are extremely grateful to Judge Roy Dalton, Jr. for granting Mr. Green’s immediate release as he awaits his ruling in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. There was never a shred of credible evidence that Crosley Green committed this crime. We have fought relentlessly since 2008 to prove his innocence, and we have faith that justice will prevail.”

    Green’s case fits a pattern in modern Florida death-row innocence cases. From the 1970s until 2016, Florida permitted trial judges to impose death sentences despite the votes of one or more jurors in favor of a life sentence.

    Report: The Innocence Epidemic reviewed the 25 Florida death-row exonerations under that statute for which the jury votes are known. In 23 of those exonerations (92%), 1 or more jurors had voted for life. Nearly 70% (16 of 23) of those wrongful capital convictions involved defendants of color.

    Before his Eleventh Circuit hearing in 2020, Green said he had given up on anger. “I was an angry man when I first got to death row,” he said. “I was, I was angry. But in ’93, it hit me and from that year until now I just stay with the Lord, you know? So, I’m not angry anymore. Anytime that I can wake up and pray to the good Lord above, you know, I can’t be angry. And my days go by easily.”

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    The Eleventh Circuit has granted Florida’s appeal, reversing the district court’s grant of habeas relief to Green.

    On Green’s cross appeal, the Eleventh Circuit affirms the denial of habeas relief.

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    Florida man freed after serving 32 years for murder could land back in prison

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    A Florida man freed last month after spending 32 years behind bars for a murder he’s always denied committing could be heading back to prison — after an appeals court ruled that his conviction should not have been overturned.

    Crosley Green, now 64, was convicted of first-degree murder in 1990 for shooting dead Charles “Chip” Flynn, 22, in Brevard County, largely because of testimony from Flynn’s ex-girlfriend who was with him at the time, the Washington Post noted.

    However, the conviction was overturned in 2018 by a federal judge who accused prosecutors of withholding crucial evidence — including the fact that both responding cops had suspected Flynn’s ex was the killer.

    No physical evidence tied him to the case, and three witnesses who claimed Green had confessed later recanted, the outlet said.

    Green — who’d initially been sent to death row, where he spent 19 years — was finally freed just over a year ago, on April 8, after defeating an initial appeal by Florida state.

    However, he faces the possibility of being sent back behind bars after the Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit threw out the decision to vacate his conviction, saying that the concerns over withheld evidence had been exhausted ahead of the federal judge’s decision.

    As his legal team fights to appeal that decision, Green gave an emotional press conference, praying that “the judge will keep me free and take a look at this once again.”

    “Yes, a wrong has been done to me … With the grace of God, I hope it will be straightened,” he said, according to footage posted by WKMG.

    “I look forward to staying home, staying free and putting this behind me.”

    Diane Clark, then a sergeant who first arrived at the 1989 murder scene, said at the press conference that “things didn’t add up” in the slaying.

    “In this particular case with Crosley Green, the truth was hidden,” Clark said.

    “To me, that’s a travesty of justice. He spent half his life in prison for something that I don’t believe he did.”

    Green’s attorneys are asking that the full 11-judge appeals panel reconsider the decision — and will push for a governor’s pardon if it fails, they told the Washington Post.

    “There’s nothing I’m going to let stand in my way of moving forward,” Green said.

    “I got family I want to be here for. The good Lord brought me this far. He’s going to continue to carry me.”

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    33 Years After His Conviction, Former Death Row Prisoner Asks Supreme Court for Justice

    Crosley Green was sentenced to death for murder in Florida in 1990 with an all-white non-unanimous jury. He was removed from death row in 2009 and resentenced to life in prison. He has always maintained his innocence and is now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn his conviction because critical evidence was withheld from his attorneys.

    There was no physical evidence linking him to the crime scene, but he was identified as the killer by the sole eyewitness, the victim’s girlfriend. 2 detectives investigating the scene informed the prosecutor that they believed the girlfriend was likely the murderer, but the prosecutor did not turn over this important information to the defense team. Finally in 2018, a federal district court overturned Green’s conviction, holding that the evidence should have been given to the defense. However, in 2022 a federal appellate court (11th Circuit) overturned the lower court’s ruling, in part because it believed the undisclosed evidence was not sufficiently important.

    Green is now asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the court of appeals because that court misapplied the law of Brady v. Maryland (1963). Brady requires the state to turn over any relevant evidence to the defense that might change the outcome of the trial. The appellate court held that because the detectives’ statement would have been inadmissible at trial and because it was somewhat repetitive of other evidence the defense had, it would not likely have led to a different outcome. Green argues that the withheld evidence might have helped develop other evidence that would have been admissible and highly relevant.

    Green was originally sentenced to death in Florida with an 8–4 jury vote for death. Florida law currently requires unanimous jury votes to sentence a defendant to death, but until 2016 allowed for non-unanimous votes or judicial overrides to impose death sentences. According to DPIC’s research, almost all of the exonerees who were sentenced in that time period similarly had non-unanimous juries. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is urging the state legislature to pass a new law that would only require 8 out of 12 jurors to recommend a sentence of death.

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    Why (apart from the fact that it's DPIC) do they completely fail to mention the DNA evidence putting him in the truck?

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