Four men who have maintained their innocence the past three decades since being charged and convicted in the beating death of an Ohio woman could soon be exoner
ated.
“I found serious flaws in the case that cast overwhelming doubt,” Lorain County Prosecutor J.D. Tomlinson wrote in a letter explaining his decision after spending more than a month reviewing the case. The four — Alfred Cleveland, Benson Davis, John Edwards, and Lenworth Edwards — were convicted in the 1991 killing of Marsha Blakely in Lorain, a city that sits along Lake Erie just west of Cleveland.
The witness had described how Blakely was savagely beaten in her apartment, saying chairs and a table had been overturned. But the crime-scene photos showed the furniture was upright with no signs of blood or a struggle, Tomlinson said. “That was my ‘aha’ moment,” he said.The prosecutor said he didn't see any evidence of misconduct by the original investigators and that his decision to seek a dismissal should not diminish Blakely's death or the pain felt by her family.
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