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The Lisker Case

By K.C. Johnson

A few years ago, TalkLeft?s incomparable Jeralyn Merrill (one of the first high-profile legal commentators to raise questions about Mike Nifong?s misconduct) flagged a Los Angeles Times magazine article about a convicted murderer named Bruce Lisker. The lengthy article is well worth reading: it?s impossible to come away from it without believing that an innocent man has spent more than 20 years of his life in jail for a crime he didn?t commit. Last Friday, U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips accepted the recommendations of a magistrate judge and vacated Lisker?s conviction. (Here?s a link to the magistrate judge?s report?which, like the Times article, is well worth reading in its entirety.) Between the Times article and the magistrate judge?s report, the Lisker case provides an unusually well-documented example of a miscarriage of justice...continue to full post

Full post as published by Durham-in-Wonderland on August 12, 2009 (boomark / email).