A judge ruled that the case against Curtis Kingwood and Faheem Davis had been irreparably tainted, including by credible allegations that Nordo sexually assaulted Kingwood in an interrogation room.
A Philadelphia judge on Thursday ruled that a murder conviction in which two men had received life sentences should be tossed out due to its connections to— a decision that came nearly two years after prosecutors agreed that Nordo’s misconduct had tainted the case beyond repair.
The District Attorney’s Office said in 2021 that it had “no confidence” in the convictions of Kingwood or Davis, calling their continued incarceration an “ongoing miscarriage of justice.” Nordo spent two decades on the force and was one of the city’s most decorated homicide detectives. But he wasof rape, sexual assault, official oppression, and related crimes for forcing male witnesses or suspects into encounters that ranged frommore than 100 convictions he helped build, and they’ve previously thrown cases out over accusations that he sought to
Lee, along with two other men, had been playing dice on the street when two gunman approached and opened fire, court documents say. Nordo and Jenkins didn’t have a lead for about a year, but eventually interviewed witnesses who suggested Kingwood was involved. In recent years, as the appeals in the case progressed, Davis’ trial lawyer, Daniel Conner, testified at an evidentiary hearing that Lammendola had told him about Kingwood’s claim of abuse, but Lammendola didn’t believe it.The trial prosecutor, Lorraine Donnelly, also told the DA’s Office after Nordo’s arrest that she recalled feeling uneasy about the way Kingwood was discussing Nordo during a pre-trial meeting — repeatedly telling her “Where’s Nordo? He knows what he did. He knows what he did.
But Jenkins testified that the statement was voluntary, and he omitted all mention of Nordo’s time with Kingwood. Instead, Jenkins attributed the length of the interrogation to the hours he’d spent on a wild goose chase trying to verify the name of an alternate suspect Kingwood had provided. Jenkins said he ultimately concluded that Kingwood had simply made up a name.
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