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In article <ssnaqp$kqie$10@news.freedyn.de>
zinn <zinn@reno.us> wrote:

The Democrats who put this man in jail should serve the same amount of time in prison.

ST. LOUIS -- A judge overturned a Missouri man's murder
conviction in a case in which investigators failed to reveal
that a witness was in a romantic relationship with the lead
detective.

Judge Timothy Boyer on Friday overturned Lamont Cambell's
conviction in the death of Lenny Gregory III, the St. Louis Post-
Dispatch reported. Gregory, the son of a retired St. Louis
police officer, was found shot in an SUV in south St. Louis in
July 2011.

Cambell was 17 when the shooting happened. A jury failed to
reach a unanimous verdict after a 2013 trial. Prosecutors tried
him again in 2016 and this time won a conviction. Cambell was
sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Cambell, now 28, subsequently argued that his attorney was
ineffective.

A witness identification expert, Jennifer Dysart, testified to
Boyer in spring 2022 that the witness' accounts were unreliable
due to poor lighting the night of the shooting. Two witnesses
were married, allowing them to compare their stories, and
descriptions of the shooter's height varied, Dysart said.

The ex-wife of lead detective Jeff Hyatt testified that she
learned in 2017 her husband was having an affair with one
witness. Text messages showed the affair had been going on since
at least July 2016, before Cambell's trial. Boyer wrote that the
relationship should have been disclosed to the defense.

Mary Fox, who represented Cambell at trial and now leads the
state public defender’s office, told the judge that she could
have done more to investigate the possibility of another
perpetrator. She said she learned after the trial that a
neighbor saw multiple people fighting with Gregory the night he
was killed.

<https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/judge-overturns-missouri- mans-conviction-2011-killing-96017653>

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