Convict gets chance to prove innocence
By Cynthia Levy, New Pittsburgh Courier
December 13, 2007
Daron Cox has been waiting 11 years to prove his innocence. While restrained, the then-18 year old confessed during a six-and-a-half-hour interrogation that he killed a Homewood teenager.
Last Wednesday, Judge Jeffrey A. Manning heard evidence during a Post-Conviction Relief hearing that said …
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Judge hears post-conviction appeal
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Case Shows How A Questionable Confession Trumps Lies and Contradictions Every Time
By Cynthia Levy
Innocence Institute of Point Park University
PITTSBURGH -- In November 1996 when Brian Roberts, known as “Little B”, pointed a gun at a cop, he was arrested with that automatic weapon and 34 rocks of crack cocaine, but walked free after telling police the gun and drugs belonged to Roland …
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