Judge Overturns Conviction of Jimmy Dennis – on Death Row for 21 Years

In the Pennsylvania case of Jimmy Dennis, Judge Anita Brody vacated both the conviction and the death sentence in a scathing indictment of the prosecutor’s case. The Judge called the conviction against Dennis “a grave miscarriage of justice” based on “scant evidence at best” and found that authorities withheld evidence at the initial trial and that the case was based on shoddy police and prosecutorial work.

Read the NY Daily News story here.