Dion Miller was forced to confess to a crime he didn't commit, officials said Friday.
Dion Miller spent 20 years behind bars for a murder state authorities now admit he did not commit.Dion Miller said he followed the trail of blood across the hallway of his grandmother’s Jersey City apartment building one day in 2003 to find an elderly neighbor beaten about the head. He tried to help the man as they waited for an ambulance to arrive.
“These have been unspeakably difficult times for them, and they have stayed united,” said Laura Cohen, the group’s director. Platkin said, going forward, the conviction unit would “prioritize cases involving these officers where confessions were the basis of the convictions.” Miller frequently visited the complex to care for his grandmother, authorities said, and the two were practically neighbors.Miller was arrested four days after the attack. Over the course of nearly a full day, he gave three tape recorded statements confessing to the murder. An alcoholic at the time, authorities now say he was intoxicated during the interrogation.a significant number of innocence cases involve false confessions.
A second jury convicted him in 2007. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison without the possibility of parole.
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