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<blockquote data-quote="_CY_" data-source="post: 2730947" data-attributes="member: 7629"><p>more details for case against Glenn Ford ....</p><p></p><p>==========</p><p></p><p>Alabama inmate free after 30 years on death row. How the case against him unraveled.</p><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/03/how-the-case-against-anthony-hinton-on-death-row-for-30-years-unraveled/" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/03/how-the-case-against-anthony-hinton-on-death-row-for-30-years-unraveled/</a></p><p></p><p>Anthony Ray Hinton was one of Alabamas longest-serving death row inmates, having spent more than half his life incarcerated. Now, after three decades of insisting that he is innocent in the 1985 murders of two men, the 58-year-old Hinton is finally a free man.</p><p></p><p>His freedom came down to the same four bullets that put him in jail to begin with.</p><p></p><p>I shouldnt have (sat) on death row for 30 years, he told reporters according to CNN. All they had to do was to test the gun.</p><p></p><p>Hinton was convicted of two separate killings of restaurant workers the Feb. 25, 1985, slaying of John Davidson, and the July 2, 1985, killing of Thomas Vason even though there were no eyewitnesses linking Hinton to the crimes, no fingerprints linking him to the scene, and no other physical evidence except for the questionable link between a set of bullets and a gun found in Hintons home.</p><p></p><p>For years, Hintons lawyers have questioned whether the bullets could be conclusively linked to the weapon. The gun belonged to Hintons mother, with whom he shared a home.</p><p></p><p>Subsequent tests of the only physical evidence in the case raised serious doubts about whether the weapon in Hintons home had fired those bullets and it even called into question whether the bullets were all fired from the same gun.</p><p></p><p>The ballistic evidence combined with eyewitness testimony from someone who was present at a similar crime that Hinton was never charged with comprised the entirety of the states case against him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="_CY_, post: 2730947, member: 7629"] more details for case against Glenn Ford .... ========== Alabama inmate free after 30 years on death row. How the case against him unraveled. [url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/04/03/how-the-case-against-anthony-hinton-on-death-row-for-30-years-unraveled/[/url] Anthony Ray Hinton was one of Alabamas longest-serving death row inmates, having spent more than half his life incarcerated. Now, after three decades of insisting that he is innocent in the 1985 murders of two men, the 58-year-old Hinton is finally a free man. His freedom came down to the same four bullets that put him in jail to begin with. I shouldnt have (sat) on death row for 30 years, he told reporters according to CNN. All they had to do was to test the gun. Hinton was convicted of two separate killings of restaurant workers the Feb. 25, 1985, slaying of John Davidson, and the July 2, 1985, killing of Thomas Vason even though there were no eyewitnesses linking Hinton to the crimes, no fingerprints linking him to the scene, and no other physical evidence except for the questionable link between a set of bullets and a gun found in Hintons home. For years, Hintons lawyers have questioned whether the bullets could be conclusively linked to the weapon. The gun belonged to Hintons mother, with whom he shared a home. Subsequent tests of the only physical evidence in the case raised serious doubts about whether the weapon in Hintons home had fired those bullets and it even called into question whether the bullets were all fired from the same gun. The ballistic evidence combined with eyewitness testimony from someone who was present at a similar crime that Hinton was never charged with comprised the entirety of the states case against him. [/QUOTE]
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