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Innocence Network Files Amicus in Ohio Case of Kevin Keith

By Steve Hall

"Innocence groups back condemned Ohio killer of 3," is the title of an AP report by Andrew Welsh-Huggins, via Google News.Innocence groups from around the country on Monday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case of an Ohio man sentenced to die in September for fatally shooting three people.The national Innocence Network and a group of eyewitness testimony experts filed papers Monday asking the court to review the evidence against death row inmate Kevin Keith. The network, which has filed only four similar requests in the past two years, says it considers the evidence in Keith's case compelling.Keith's lawyers say courts have never heard the full amount of evidence they say could exonerate him.That includes an alternate suspect who boasted he was going to carry out the killings, an enlarged photo of Keith used during a picture lineup and witnesses who say Keith was elsewhere...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 06, 2010 (boomark / email).