Post by MXB on Feb 11, 2007 22:32:43 GMT -5
Saturday, 13 January 2007
Ohio death row inmate Timothy Coleman granted DNA test:
Tom Beyerlien has this coverage in the Springfield News-Sun.
Excerpt:
Eleven years ago, a police informant named Melinda Stevens was .shot to death, execution style, in a Springfield alley shortly before she was to testify in court against drug dealer Timothy L. Coleman
Nobody saw the Jan. 2, 1996, shooting and no physical evidence tied him to the crime. But Coleman, now 37, was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death. He resides on Ohio's death row in Youngstown.
Now a federal judge is giving Coleman's defense team a chance to perform DNA testing on crime scene evidence to see if it implicates William Sapp, another death row inmate from Springfield, in Stevens' murder. The DNA results are due in March.
Four years after Coleman's conviction, Sapp signed an affidavit claiming he, not Coleman, killed Stevens. ...
(The Toledo Blade has this story on DNA testing allowed in the 23-year-old non-death penalty murder case of Elizabeth Golebiewski in Lucas County.)
Ohio death row inmate Timothy Coleman granted DNA test:
Tom Beyerlien has this coverage in the Springfield News-Sun.
Excerpt:
Eleven years ago, a police informant named Melinda Stevens was .shot to death, execution style, in a Springfield alley shortly before she was to testify in court against drug dealer Timothy L. Coleman
Nobody saw the Jan. 2, 1996, shooting and no physical evidence tied him to the crime. But Coleman, now 37, was convicted of aggravated murder and sentenced to death. He resides on Ohio's death row in Youngstown.
Now a federal judge is giving Coleman's defense team a chance to perform DNA testing on crime scene evidence to see if it implicates William Sapp, another death row inmate from Springfield, in Stevens' murder. The DNA results are due in March.
Four years after Coleman's conviction, Sapp signed an affidavit claiming he, not Coleman, killed Stevens. ...
(The Toledo Blade has this story on DNA testing allowed in the 23-year-old non-death penalty murder case of Elizabeth Golebiewski in Lucas County.)