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Judge tosses lawsuit against Cleveland filed by man who spent 47 years in prison for murder he didn't commit
 [Cleveland dot com] A federal judge on Thursday tossed out a lawsuit filed by Isaiah Andrews, who spent 45 years in prison for a murder he didn’t commit.U.S. District Judge James Gwin sided with the City of Cleveland and former police officers, who Andrews’ attorneys accused of withholding evidence that pointed to another suspect in the 1974 slaying of Andrews’ wife. Gwin found that the officers gave the evidence to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office. The judge placed the blame solely on the prosecutor’s office for failing to turn over evidence to Andrews’ attorneys. "[A] reasonable juror could infer only that police gave the exculpatory evidence over to prosecutors before the trial and that any failure to provide [exculpatory] materials was a prosecutor failure," Gwin wrote in a 35-page opinion. The evidence, discovered in 2018, led to Andrews’ exoneration. Sarah Gelsomino, one of the attorneys representing Andrews’ estate, said the case highlighted a problem with prosecutors being shielded from lawsuits... Andrews served the third longest known sentence in U.S. history for a crime he didn’t commit, according to the National Registry of Exonerations. He spent 45 years in prison until 2020, when Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Robert McClelland ordered he be released from prison. Related: Cuyahoga County: 2022-01-05 18-year-old woman admits to killing off-duty Cleveland cop during carjacking: prosecutor Cuyahoga County: 2021-08-07 Various US court systems have mixed responses to the re-imposition of eviction moratorium Cuyahoga County: 2019-08-31 When gymnast Simone Biles brother sez get out! You'd better saddle up Related: Innocence Project: 2015-04-20 Bad Cop. No Donut. Innocence Project: 2013-09-22 The Havoc of Prosecutorial Misconduct Posted by: DooDahMan 2023-04-21 |
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