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| Inmate Freed for Insufficient Evidence |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 03/06/2006 |
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A Florida man who served nearly three years on death row for the 1999 murders of two friends was out of prison last week, two days after the state Supreme Court ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict him. John Robert Ballard left Union Correctional Institution during the night with a relative, said Robby Cunningham, spokesman for the Florida Department of Corrections. Ballard, 37, was convicted of the murders of Jennifer Jones and Willie Ray Patin Jr., who skulls were crushed at their Collier County apartment, even though there was little to connect him to the slayings of his friends. The Supreme Court ordered Ballard acquitted, overruling the jury's verdict, saying there wasn't sufficient proof. Ballard's conviction had been based almost entirely on the discovery of one fingerprint on a bed frame and an arm hair in the victims' apartment a place Ballard had visited numerous times. |
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