Post by HeadMarshal on Jan 30, 2014 11:54:55 GMT -5
www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Man-released-from-death-row-charged-in-shooting-5189443.php
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a man who served 15 years in prison, including time on death row, in the killing of a Memphis police officer has been charged with shooting a girl.
According to The Commercial Appeal (http://bit.ly/1idH8WT), police say 39-year-old Timothy McKinney was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder after he fired shots in a convenience store Jan. 4. Police say he struck a 14-year-old girl in the leg.
McKinney was convicted in the 1997 murder of Memphis Police Officer Don Williams.
The conviction was overturned in 2010 when a state appeals court ruled McKinney's original attorneys did not properly investigate or try the case.
Two retrials ended in hung juries before he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to time served in a settlement last year.
Thoughts? Even though a lot of death row inmates that get released didn't actually commit the crime they were convicted of, part of me wonders if some of these "innocent inmates" actually committed the crime but managed to get off death row by pointing out "issues in their trial or their investigation". This is one example.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Authorities say a man who served 15 years in prison, including time on death row, in the killing of a Memphis police officer has been charged with shooting a girl.
According to The Commercial Appeal (http://bit.ly/1idH8WT), police say 39-year-old Timothy McKinney was arrested and charged with attempted first-degree murder after he fired shots in a convenience store Jan. 4. Police say he struck a 14-year-old girl in the leg.
McKinney was convicted in the 1997 murder of Memphis Police Officer Don Williams.
The conviction was overturned in 2010 when a state appeals court ruled McKinney's original attorneys did not properly investigate or try the case.
Two retrials ended in hung juries before he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to time served in a settlement last year.
Thoughts? Even though a lot of death row inmates that get released didn't actually commit the crime they were convicted of, part of me wonders if some of these "innocent inmates" actually committed the crime but managed to get off death row by pointing out "issues in their trial or their investigation". This is one example.
