Oklahoma judge overturns convictions of 2 in shooting death
Source: Associated Press
Oklahoma judge overturns convictions of 2 in shooting death
Justin Juozapavicius, Associated Press
Updated 6:40 pm, Monday, May 9, 2016
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two men convicted in the drive-by shooting of a woman 22 years ago are innocent and their convictions should be overturned, an Oklahoma judge ruled Monday.
Tulsa District Judge Sharon Holmes said that if jurors would have been able to hear a videotaped confession from a death-row inmate who admitted to the crime, the case "would've had a different outcome." Holmes also found that other evidence in the case, including the weapon and vehicle used in the shooting, failed to link either DeMarchoe Carpenter or Malcolm Scott to the crime.
Scott and Carpenter were both 17 years old when 19-year-old Karen Summers died in 1994.
In January, attorneys for the men presented new evidence that featured Michael Lee Wilson's confession that was videotaped while he was on death row two years ago. Minutes before he was to die by lethal injection in 2014, he declared Carpenter and Scott innocent.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Judge-expected-to-rule-on-inmates-innocence-7423009.php
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Lee Wilson did the two men a favor, finally, by telling the
truth of the murder, allowing them to be returned to their lives.
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