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| Prosecutor disputes innocence claims of Alabama death row inmate |
| By nola.com |
| Published: 06/09/2015 |
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — A prisoner who is trying to become the third inmate freed this year from Alabama's death row hasn't proven his claims of innocence and waited too long to raise other issues on appeal, state prosecutors told a federal judge Monday. The state attorney general's office asked U.S. District Judge David Proctor to reject an appeal by Donnis George Musgrove, who claims he was wrongly convicted in the fatal shooting of Coy Eugene Barron in 1986. Musgrove, 66, contends he is innocent and has wrongly spent nearly 30 years on death row. But prosecutors filed court rejecting his claims, including allegations of numerous errors during his trial. Those are a faulty eyewitness identification; ballistics evidence planted by police; and an ineffective defense lawyer. Read More. |
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