From the Washington Post:
Webb, who wept and repeatedly claimed innocence during his sentencing in 1986, died in prison. Christopher Turner, who also maintained his innocence, was paroled in 2010 for good behavior after more than 25 years behind bars, according to an attorney familiar with the case.
Prosecutors outlined a horrific scenario during the trial: Fuller, a cleaning woman, left her K Street NE home on a rainy afternoon to fill a prescription. The suspects, then 17 to 21 years old, were smoking marijuana and listening to go-go music at a nearby park.
A group of about 30 confronted Fuller, prosecutors say. She was grabbed from behind and pushed into an alley, where she was beaten and a two-inch-thick metal pole was shoved into her rectum.
Her liver was shattered, a lung was punctured and four of her ribs were broken, according to authorities. Her body was found in a garage in the same alley that evening.
After the trial, defense attorneys examined hundreds of pages of previously unavailable grand jury testimony and discovered that several witnesses identified three other people who were either seen in the alley at the time of the attack or had allegedly confessed to the attack to friends.
Several witnesses told authorities they saw James McMillan, who house-sat on the alley where Fuller was killed. McMillan, now 46, is serving a life sentence in a Virginia prison for another deadly attack on a woman.
That information, defense attorneys argue, was known to detectives and prosecutors but not shared before the trial. Attorneys for Christopher Turner and the six men still in prison, with the assistance of the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project and nearly a dozen volunteer criminal defense lawyers, began working for a new trial in 2010.
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