A man spent 13 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit.
Cleveland police detectives set him up by coercing false testimonies and by withholding evidence that would exonerate him.
It takes a real monster to frame an innocent man. Those detectives are as dangerous to society as any real murderer. They destroy lives.
I have read that coerced cellmate confessions happen a little more often than we may realize.
No word on whether the corrupt detectives will face charges.
Exonerated man wins $13.2M for 13 years in prison
The Price Of Justice
Cleveland police detectives set him up by coercing false testimonies and by withholding evidence that would exonerate him.
It takes a real monster to frame an innocent man. Those detectives are as dangerous to society as any real murderer. They destroy lives.
I have read that coerced cellmate confessions happen a little more often than we may realize.
No word on whether the corrupt detectives will face charges.
Exonerated man wins $13.2M for 13 years in prison
Among the most serious allegations by Ayers against Kovach and Cipo were that the two detectives conspired with each other to fabricate a confession that he never made, coerced a friend of Ayers to lie by saying that Ayers had told him of the murder before Brown's body was discovered, and gave key information about the crime to Ayers' prison cellmate so he could later testify against Ayers about an admission he didn't make.
The Price Of Justice
Ayers was a security guard for the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority when found guilty of killing Brown at her CMHA apartment in Cleveland. She was found bludgeoned to death, covered in defensive wounds and naked from the waist down; she also had been robbed. DNA testing later proved that a pubic hair found in her mouth did not come from Ayers.