Alexander Villa 3rd defendant charged in murder of Clifton Lewis to have charges dropped
Alexander Villa was released from prison Thursday, after his conviction was overturned in the 2011 murder of Chicago police Officer Clifton Lewis .A man who was first incarcerated 11 years ago was released Thursday, after his conviction for murdering a Chicago police officer was overturned.judge to overturn his life sentence, handed down a little over a year ago
"There's two victims in this situation. You have a person who was wrongfully incarcerated for something he didn't do. And you have a family that is suffering the loss of their loved one. No one wins," Villa's sister Melissa said. Lewis' sister said this all feels unjust and unfair to their family. She asked: If these three men didn't kill her brother, who did?
The officer's family now wants his case to be picked back up so they can find out who killed Clifton Lewis."The winner of the state's attorney's race, who we expect to be Judge O'Neil Burke, absolutely needs to pledge publicly that she is going to re-indict and re-try this case as soon as she is in office. If not, she will not have FOP support," FOP President John Catanzara said.
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