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| Federal Judge to Hear Inmate's Rights Claim |
| By South Florida Sun Sentinel |
| Published: 09/23/2002 |
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Timothy Brown will be allowed to take what his lawyers say is the shortest path to freedom for a mentally challenged young man who claims he has spent the past 12 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. U.S. District Judge Donald Graham in Miami agreed last week to entertain legal arguments from Brown's lawyers, who say police violated his constitutional rights by beating the 15-year-old and coercing him to give a false confession to shooting Deputy Patrick Behan. The confession was the only evidence detectives had when Brown was tried in state court, convicted and sentenced to life in prison. If the judge rules the confession doesn't pass constitutional muster, he could force state prosecutors to either see that Brown quickly gets a new trial on the murder charge or drop the case against him, Bryn said. |
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