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A Philadelphia man whose conviction in a murder case was overturned has been freed from prison after 37 years. Detectives allegedly offered a witness at the man's trial sex and drugs in exchange for false testimony.

“I fell weak and went along with the offer,” Lee told a federal judge in November, recalling his testimony at a May 1984 preliminary hearing when he claimed Stokes, a neighborhood friend, had confessed to killing a man during a dice game named Leslie Campbell.

“The homicide prosecutors that used Franklin Lee’s testimony to convict Willie Stokes then prosecuted Franklin Lee for lying on Willie Stokes. And they never told Willie Stokes,” Diamondstein argued at the November hearing in federal court. His mother told the woman not to go down to the station again. Instead, police secured him a sex worker the next time, Lee said.“Once I talked to my mother, she told me, ‘I didn’t raise you like that, to lie on a man because you got yourself in a jam,’” Lee testified, according to the transcript. “She said, ‘I couldn’t care if they give you 1,000 years. Go in there and tell the truth.’ And that’s what I did.

 

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That special place in hell must be overcrowded

Son unos malditos. En este planeta existen personas buenas y los hijos del diablo que comparten la tierra con nosotros.

When are their trials?

That's how they roll in the Democrat-run city of Philadelphia. Totally corrupt 💩hole.

His false accusers should spend 37 years in jail.

& this is y death penalty masquerading as Justice but actually is Revenge needs 2 go.

Will it ever stop

This man needs at least 5 mill

Amerikkka

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