Judge in Philippines who believed man may have been wrongfully convicted re-opens case on motion of defendant, and then gets removed from office because the law in the Philippines does not recognize the re-opening of criminal cases after conviction- A Kentucky judge has denied Susan Jean King’s motion for a new trial on charges that she killed her ex-boyfriend, despite finding that another man who recently confessed to the crime provided a “startling level of detail about the murder.” Spencer Circuit Judge Charles R. Hickman said the confession with “reasonable certainty” would change the result if King were granted a trial. But he declined to order one because she pleaded guilty in 2008, while maintaining her innocence, and wasn’t convicted at trial. “A motion for a ‘new trial’ logically suggests that there was an ‘old trial,’ and that is not the case ,” Hickman ruled Friday in an eight-page order. King’s lawyer, Linda A. Smith, director of the Kentucky Innocence Project, said she was “beyond disappointed” in the ruling, which she said didn’t serve “the greater purpose of justice.”
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