AdvertisementJerry Brown Pardons Man Imprisoned for Decades for Murders He Didn’t Commit Image Gov. Mr. Brown on Wednesday pardoned Craig R. Coley, a man who spent nearly 40 years behind bars for a murder the authorities say he did not commit. It found that several police officials had doubts about Mr. Coley’s guilt and said they believed that Mr. Coley had been framed or that evidence had been mishandled. As a result, “we no longer have confidence in the weight of the evidence used to convict Mr. Coley,” Mr. Totten and Chief Livingstone said. Mr. Totten vowed his office would “pursue the absolute truth in this decades-old case.” He did not release the names of any new suspects.

Source: New York Times November 23, 2017 21:11 UTC