The Innocence Institute of Point Park University
An investigative reporting organization that probes allegations of wrongful convictions.
By Marie DoRego
inn_inst[at]pointpark[dot]edu
March 14, 2011
While Thomas Porter's original lawyer long ago stated another man confessed his role in the 1999 beating and robbery of an elderly McKeesport man that sent him to prison for a maximum of 24 years, an appeals court has denied his appeal.
In a six-page opinion, however, a three-judge panel of the Pennsylvania Superior Court did not …
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By Elizabeth Perry
Eighty-seven-year-old Morris Blick never actually gave police a physical description of a black man who attacked him late one night in September 1999, leaving him bruised and shaken.
But when police showed him a photo array, Blick became certain his attacker was a fellow named Thomas Porter, a guy who once mowed his yard. Porter has proclaimed his innocence ever since, and …
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