Lies, Obfuscation, Deceit are Cast Aside by Appeals Panel By Bill Moushey The Innocence Institute of Point Park University Two1986 murder convictions against David J. Munchinski have been upheld by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, who refused to take up 30 years of arguments over whether the former Latrobe man’s rights were irreparably harmed by prosecutorial misdeeds and perjured …
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August 2005 A former Latrobe man whose double murder convictions were reversed by one court and reinstated by another has asked the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to intervene. In a 32-page petition with more than 500 pages of exhibits, David Munchinski’s lawyer claims a three-judge panel of the Pennsylvania Superior Court erred last month in reinstating his convictions because it …
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By Bill Moushey Dec. 15, 2005 Director, Innocence Institute of Point Park University Ruling a lower court judge improperly re-hashed previously litigated evidence and ruled on allegations of prosecutorial misdeeds and perjured testimony that were unlawfully filed late, an appeals court reinstated a 1986 double-murder conviction yesterday against David J. Munchinski. The unanimous …
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Tuesday, August 16, 2005 A former Latrobe man who remains incarcerated on a double murder conviction despite a judge’s reversal of it last fall has filed a federal suit claiming lawmen in Fayette County violated his civil rights by withholding and altering evidence that could have cleared him in the 1977 murders. David J. Munchinski, who remains incarcerated while appeals of a …
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By Bill Moushey Despite an appeal of an order releasing David Munchinski after 20 years in prison over rampant prosecutorial misconduct during two trials in a grisly 1977 double murder case in Fayette County, his lawyer today asked a judge to grant the man immediate bond. In a four-page petition, Noah Geary, the Washington Pa.-based lawyer for the former Latrobe man, argued it would be …
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By Bill Moushey October 9, 2004 Stating a judge who reversed a 1986 Fayette County double-murder conviction over widespread prosecutorial misconduct was barred from doing so on procedural grounds, the state attorney general yesterday filed an appeal that at least temporarily prevents a man’s release after 20 years in prison. The one paragraph notice of appeal was filed three days before …
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By Bill Moushey October 2, 2004 Prosecutorial misconduct so permeated a Fayette County double murder case that a judge yesterday reversed convictions against a man who has been imprisoned for almost 20 years and vowed to release him if prosecutors do not turn over a witness statement they insist does not exist. In a sweeping 120-page ruling handed up yesterday in the David Munchinski …
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By Bill Moushey April 10, 2004 A visiting judge who yesterday listened to allegations of serious prosecutorial misconduct against three Fayette County prosecutors in a 26-year-old double-murder case said he will decide within the next 45 days whether to free David Munchinski, grant him a new trial, or send him back to prison for the rest of his life. After listening to over two hours of …
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By Bill Moushey, Post-Gazette Staff Writer Thursday, August 14, 2003 Three former Fayette County prosecutors admitted yesterday that potentially exculpatory evidence should have been turned over to defense lawyers for David Munchinski before he was convicted of a double murder 18 years ago. But all of them also testified during a post-conviction hearing in the 1977 drug-related murder …
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By Bill Moushey Wednesday, August 13, 2003 Two former lawyers for convicted murderer David Munchinski testified yesterday that evidence withheld from the former Latrobe man would have won him an acquittal and that he should be granted a new trial. Munchinski received two life sentences following his conviction in 1986 for the murders of James Peter Alford, 24, and Raymond Gierke, …
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