Tag: innocence cases
Posted on Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 06:28:00 PM EST
Tags: Bruce Lisker, innocence cases (all tags)
Bump and Update: The judge has decided to order Lisker released on bond pending the DA's decision on whether to retry him.
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Original Post Sunday 8/9/09
In 2005, the LA Times published a 15 page online report on the conviction of Bruce Lisker. Lisker, at age 17 was charged with killing his mother. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. I wrote about it here and TChris wrote about it in 2008 here.
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Posted on Wed May 20, 2009 at 07:34:00 AM EST
Tags: innocence cases (all tags)
Via the AP: Proseuctors withhled evidence in a Delaware murder case and as a result, the defendant goes free. How did it happen?
The murder case against a man charged in a shooting two years ago at Delaware State University that left one student dead and another injured will be dismissed because prosecutors withheld key evidence, a judge ruled Tuesday.
Loyer Braden, 20, of East Orange, N.J., had been charged with second-degree murder, assault and other crimes after a September 2007 campus shooting that killed 17-year-old Shalita Middleton of Washington, D.C. Braden's mother says her son works for a water quality testing company and is taking real estate classes.
James Liguori, a pal of TalkLeft, is Braden's attorney. [More....]
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