Reggie Clemons will be removed from death row,as judges ruled evidence was suppressed in 1991 case though state must now choose whether to retry himReggie Clemons, a Missouri prisoner who has spent 22 years on death row for the 1991 rape and murder of two sisters, or has had his convictions thrown out by the state’s highest court on grounds that he was denied a fair trial through prosecutorial misconduct.
The supreme court of Missouri voted 4-3 on Tuesday to vacate Clemons’ murder convictions and remove him from death row. The ruling was the culmination of an epic six-year legal battle in which the prisoner sought to prove that prosecutors had violated his constitutional rights by withholding evidence at trial that his police confession had been beaten out of him.
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Source: theguardian.com