on July 12, 2013 in World News
Convicted Murderers Released From Prison On Technicality
BALTIMORE (WJZ) — More than a dozen convicted killers are released from prison on a technicality, and dozens more could follow. Monique Griego explains the Court of Appeals ruling at the center of this controversy. All of these men were convicted before 1980. And since then, the court has changed the way juries are allowed to decide cases. Locked up for decades, 13 convicted murderers in Maryland are now free, after the state’s highest court overturned their convictions due to improper jury instructions. “It’s absolutely the right decision,” said Mike Millemann, University of Maryland School of Law. Millemann is working… View Article
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