Witness who identified Naeem Miller as killer had pending fraud charges, got a deal from prosecutors.
Naeem Miller will get a new trial after his 2005 murder conviction was tossed.The woman testified she saw Naeem Miller holding the gun after a man was shot and killed outside a Newark bar and another left wounded. What jurors didn’t know was she was facing jail time of her own in an unrelated case and would get a good deal for helping out prosecutors.
Nearly two decades later, an Essex County judge has ordered a new murder trial for Miller, finding authorities wrongly withheld that information from him and the jury that sent him to prison. If you purchase a product or register for an account through one of the links on our site, we may receive compensation.
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