INNOCENT ON DEATH ROW IN FLORIDA
BILLY KELLEY
The way to kill innocents
Published Thursday,
Judge skeptical about '84 murder conviction
MEG LAUGHLIN
Hadn't the prosecutor deliberately misled the jury about an immunity deal that led to a death sentence for Billy Kelley in the homicide of citrus baron Charles Van Maxcy, U.S. District Court Judge Norman Roettger wanted to know.
Had Kelley ever been linked to the crime by witness identification? Why did the state destroy all physical evidence before his trial?
http://www.oranous.com/innocence/BillyKelley/skeptical.htm
Frank Lee Smith
Published Tuesday,
1984 murder trial revisited
Judge challenges damning evidence
As a result, a man was convicted of a sensational 35-year-old murder and sent to Florida's Death Row 17 years ago. Now, his life depends on what federal Judge Norman Roettger decides about the evidence.
At the end of the six-hour evidentiary hearing, then-Highlands County prosecutor Hardy Pickard took the stand to defend his words to the jury that in 1984 convicted Billy Kelley, a Boston crook, of murder.
http://www.oranous.com/innocence/BillyKelley/damning.html
Juan Melendez - free at last
Published Friday,
BY MEG LAUGHLIN
The decision may well be a sign of things to come in another case now being scrutinized by U.S. District Judge Norman Roettger in Fort Lauderdale. The reason: Both cases involve prosecutorial misconduct -- the withholding of evidence that misled the juries.
On Wednesday, Circuit Court Judge Barbara Fleischer ordered a new trial
for
convicted in 1984 for the murder of Auburndale hairdresser Del Baker.
The state withheld ``evidence favorable to the accused . . . which raises the question, in its absence, if the defendant received a fair trial,'' wrote the judge.
http://www.oranous.com/innocence/BillyKelley/grants.htm
INNOCENT ON
DEATH ROW
IN FLORIDA 17 YEARS
JUST EXONERATED!!!!
Juan Melendez smiling again
http://www.oranous.com/innocence/JuanMelendez/innocent.html
Jerry Townsend
Florida innocence
``I know Billy Kelley didn't kill my father,'' said Marivon Adams, whose Maxcy relatives refuse to speak to her.
Their opinions are superfluous. The critical legal issue revolves around one question: Was there prosecutorial misconduct?
http://www.oranous.com/innocence/BillyKelley/scandal.htm
Innocent in Florida
Prosecutor Hardy Pickard, who is now the state attorney in neighboring
Polk County, agrees: "Everything was so circumstantial. The evidence
against Kelley was John Sweet's testimony, and that was about it."
Sept. 2, 2000
FLORIDA:
34 years and 5 trials after one of Florida's most sensational murders,
a 2-bit crook sits on death row at Raiford. A nationally known
constitutional lawyer, never before involved in a capital case, is
representing him. And a federal judge in Broward scrutinizes an 8-
year-old petition for a new trial.
The murder that brings together the condemned Billy Kelley, 57, Harvard
constitutional lawyer Laurence Tribe and U.S. District Court Judge Norman
Roettger occurred on a warm autumn night in the Florida town of Sebring
in 1966.
http://www.oranous.com/innocence/BillyKelley/signed.htm
Records show the 12 Polk Death Row inmates, each convicted of first-degree murder, are: Dean Kilgore, 49; Juan Melendez, 49; Eddie Davis, 31; Henry Davis, 35; George Trepal, 56; David Pittman, 38; George Brown, 51; Curtis Beasley, 51; Darryl Moody, 38; Thomas Woodel, 30; Robert Morris, 37; and Micah Nelson, 24.
http://www.oranous.com/innocence/BillyKelley/Polkcases.htm
Jeb Bush
FLORIDA DOC SITE
http://www.oranous.com/innocence/BillyKelley/093417Kelley.htm
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