My brother has been incarcerated since 1993 for a crime he did not commit. Burton was found guilty by a jury of killing Seth Floyd at the jail March 9, 1993, and ordered to serve a mandatory prison term of life without parole. His co-defendant, Melvin Goodwine, was acquitted on the murder charge but convicted of conspiracy. According to a nine-page opinion issued Tuesday from the state Superior Court, in July 2009, Goodwine filed a motion seeking to expunge his criminal record. Attached to the motion was a letter in which Goodwine said that he killed Floyd in self-defense, and that “he was advised not to use this defense at trial, and as a result, an innocent man went to jail for a crime that he committed.” Read more: post-gazette/local/city/2014/07/16/Convict-wins-right-to-appeal-verdict-in-93-county-jail-killing/stories/201407160061#ixzz37t5qnGNs
Posted on: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 05:06:22 +0000
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