Robert Roberson: (Death Row) Texas: Thursday October 16, 2025: An ominous date: As Juan A. Lozano reports in The Independent: "A new execution date has been requested for Robert Roberson, a Texas man who had been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome."…"Roberson, 58, was convicted of the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in the East Texas city of Palestine. Prosecutors argued he violently shook his daughter back and forth, causing severe head trauma in what’s called shaken baby syndrome. His lawyers and some medical experts say his daughter died not from abuse but from complications related to pneumonia…In its latest appeal filed in February, Roberson’s legal team said new evidence, including statements from pathologists that state the girl’s death was not a homicide and question the reliability of conclusions by the medical examiner on the cause of death, show “no rational juror would find Roberson guilty of capital murder; and unreliable and outdated scientific and medical evidence was material to his conviction.”

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: Call for Action:  Dear readers: Attorney General Paxton wants the court to allow  Texas to kill Robert Roberson on Thursday October 16, 2002.  Once the court sanctions the date (which is quite likely) the ball will start rolling, and before you know it, this innocent man, who should have been left to grieve his daughter's death -  yet was convicted because of junk shaken baby 'science' -  will have been executed.This horrific, travesty of justice  which cannot be corrected, must be stopped. What can we do, while Robert Roberson's lawyer's battle it out in the courts?  Here is my proposal. This year, International Wrongful Conviction Day falls on Thursday October 2, 2025 - exactly two weeks before the targeted  execution date.  It's a day devoted  to helping free  people from wrongful convictions  no matter where they are located on the globe, and to creating fair justice systems. 

My vision is  one in which individuals and  organizations around the world use this day to hold events related to the case - and to bombard Paxton with protests from around  the world. Bloggers, columnists, editorial writers, authors,  pathologists,   and scientists. The list goes on and on including innocence organizations, lawyers groups, and religious organizations, such as   churches synagogues,  and mosques, (Thou shall not kill!). It also includes  concerned  individuals  around the globe who cannot tolerate the prospect  of this pending travesty - all sending this message to the State of Texas: Cancel the execution, and use the courts to confront the junk science that placed him on death row and free him -  instead of using the courts  to sanction his death.

In winding up, the good news is that Robert Roberson  understandably has a huge number of supporters, including bi-partisan legislative support. Indeed,  addition to great lawyers, the Innocence Project, the experts,  he already has a powerful, committed movement behind him.  This is great. I'm just suggesting that in addition to all of this, we should take advantage of the fact that International Wrongful Conviction Day comes just 14 days before the day on which Texas wants to kill him - and that, if it comes to this awful prospect, we should make full use of this concurrence.

And a next-to-final word: While I truly hope that A.G. Paxton will come to his senses, and not keep Robert Roberson on death row a second longer (yes, dear reader,  I know what you are probably thinking). Until that happens, this battle must be fought.

I'm only adding one more way in which we can fight it.

I would very much appreciate hearing your reaction to my proposal and any other suggestions which you may have,  at:

hlevy15@gmail.com

Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog;

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QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Gretchen Sween, one of Roberson’s attorneys, criticized the office of Attorney General Ken Paxton for asking for a new execution date when Roberson still has an appeal pending before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that his legal team says contains “powerful new evidence of his innocence.” “There is no justification for the Attorney General’s relentless effort to kill an innocent human being — and no state law or moral law that authorizes seeking an execution date under these circumstances,” Sween said in a statement."

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PASSAGE OF THE DAY: " Roberson’s attorneys have asked that a hearing be held over whether a new execution date should be set. It was not immediately known when a court hearing could be held as the case currently does not have a presiding judge as the previous judge recused herself from the case in November. Roberson had been in a holding cell in October, a few feet away from America’s busiest death chamber in Huntsville, waiting to receive a lethal injection when he was granted an execution stay after a group of Texas lawmakers issued a subpoena for him to testify before a House committee several days after he was scheduled to die.  The Texas Supreme Court ruled in November that although the subpoena was valid, it could not be used to circumvent a scheduled execution. Roberson never testified before the House committee as Paxton’s office blocked efforts to have him speak to lawmakers."

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STORY: "Prosecutors ask for new execution date for Texas man in shaken baby syndrome case." published by The Independent (Reporter Juan A.  Lozano), on June 17, 2025. (Juam A. Lozano is a reporter for The Associated Press based in the Independent's  bureau in Houston, Texas who has covered state and federal courts and legal issues in the Houston-area,)

SUB-HEADING: "A new execution date is being requested for Robert Roberson."

GIST: "A new execution date has been requested for Robert Roberson, a Texas man who had been set last year to become the first person in the U.S. to be put to death for a murder conviction tied to a diagnosis of shaken baby syndrome.

Monday’s request from the Texas Attorney General’s Office was the first time authorities had asked for a new execution date since Roberson received a stay in October. 

The execution's delay followed a flurry of last-ditch legal challenges on the night of his scheduled lethal injection that were prompted by an unprecedented maneuver from a bipartisan group of Texas lawmakers who say he is innocent and was sent to death row based on flawed science.

In its five-page motion, the Texas Attorney General’s Office said because the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, the state’s top criminal court, has previously denied appeals in Roberson’s case, “the criteria for setting an execution have been met.”

The attorney general’s office requested a new execution date of Oct. 16.

The attorney general’s office did not immediately reply to an email seeking comment Tuesday.

Court documents show the Anderson County District Attorney’s Office, which had prosecuted Roberson, has agreed to let the Texas Attorney General’s Office take over the case.

Roberson, 58, was convicted of the 2002 killing of his 2-year-old daughter, Nikki Curtis, in the East Texas city of Palestine.

 Prosecutors argued he violently shook his daughter back and forth, causing severe head trauma in what’s called shaken baby syndrome. 

His lawyers and some medical experts say his daughter died not from abuse but from complications related to pneumonia.

Gretchen Sween, one of Roberson’s attorneys, criticized the office of Attorney General Ken Paxton for asking for a new execution date when Roberson still has an appeal pending before the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals that his legal team says contains “powerful new evidence of his innocence.”

“There is no justification for the Attorney General’s relentless effort to kill an innocent human being — and no state law or moral law that authorizes seeking an execution date under these circumstances,” Sween said in a statement.

In its latest appeal filed in February, Roberson’s legal team said new evidence, including statements from pathologists that state the girl’s death was not a homicide and question the reliability of conclusions by the medical examiner on the cause of death, show “no rational juror would find Roberson guilty of capital murder; and unreliable and outdated scientific and medical evidence was material to his conviction.”

Roberson’s attorneys have asked that a hearing be held over whether a new execution date should be set. It was not immediately known when a court hearing could be held as the case currently does not have a presiding judge as the previous judge recused herself from the case in November.

Roberson had been in a holding cell in October, a few feet away from America’s busiest death chamber in Huntsville, waiting to receive a lethal injection when he was granted an execution stay after a group of Texas lawmakers issued a subpoena for him to testify before a House committee several days after he was scheduled to die.

The Texas Supreme Court ruled in November that although the subpoena was valid, it could not be used to circumvent a scheduled execution.

Roberson never testified before the House committee as Paxton’s office blocked efforts to have him speak to lawmakers."

The entire story can be read at:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/houston-ken-paxton-attorney-general-palestine-huntsville-b2771835.html

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OBJECTION FILED BYY ROBERT ROBERSON'S LAWYERS: 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o1tMSsIed2goGitVt76DtzLS1jBXSsyJ/view

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic"  section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com.  Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.

SEE BREAKDOWN OF  SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG,  AT THE LINK BELOW:  HL:

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985

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FINAL WORD:  (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases):  "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."

Lawyer Radha Natarajan:

Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;

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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions.   They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!

Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;

Ray Gilbert: U.K: Coerced confession case: Having served 36 years in jail for murder he has launched a new bid to clear his name," ITV Granada Reports, noting that Ray Gilbert insists that he is innocent of the crime and that he will never give up fighting to clear his name…"Mr Gilbert, who was aged 22 at the time of his arrest, initially admitted the crime - but says he was coerced and threatened into confessing during 48-hours of police questioning staged without legal representation or an appropriate adult. He has maintained his innocence even though it cost him an extra 20 years in prison because of his refusal to confess to a Parole Board. Mr Gilbert was eventually released in 2016 and has kept up the flight to clear his name. Co-defendant, John Karmara, had his conviction overturned in 2001, when an appeal court found hundreds of witness statements were kept from the defence team. But because Mr Gilbert initially confessed to the killing, he has never had the chance to appeal his own conviction. Now an independent investigator is helping him with a fresh bid to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC)."

PUBLISHER'S NOTE: This Blog is interested in false confessions because of the disturbing number of exonerations in the USA, Canada and multiple other jurisdictions throughout the world, where, in the absence of incriminating forensic evidence the conviction is based on self-incrimination – and because of the growing body of  scientific research showing how vulnerable suspects are to widely used interrogation methods  such as  the notorious ‘Reid Technique.’ As  all too many of this Blog's post have shown, I also recognize that pressure for false confessions can take many forms, up to and including physical violence, even physical and mental torture.

Harold Levy: Publisher; The Charles Smith Blog:

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QUOTES OF THE DAY: "Mr Gilbert said: "I want to prove my innocence. I want to be able to hold my head up high. "It's nothing to do about money, I just want my innocence proven. "You can't let one out and then say the evidence is ok, when the appeal court's already ruled the evidence is useless." But he now has the support of independent investigator Stephanie Davies. "Ray was vulnerable when he was questioned," she said. "I think the police may have been aware that he was vulnerable and he's ended up confessing to a crime that I don't think he did. "The details in his confessions don't match what I'm seeing at the crime scene." She added: "Every time Ray's applied to the CCRC, they have said there's no new evidence. "But this time, I'm offering a brand new argument."

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MORE QUOTES OF THE DAY: 'The team also say that - just like John Karmara's case - there is documentary evidence which proves Mr Gilbert could not have committed the crime. Hayley Wood, a Miscarriage of Justice Advocate, who is also working on Ray's behalf said: "It's within these documents we have found certain information that suggests that Ray was certainly not in the place that he was forced to confess to where he was. "On the run up to Ray's arrest - eye witnesses described the attackers, or those trying to gain access to the building as being white men, and then once Ray was arrested, witnesses were then saying they were mixed race. "Ray and John Kamara weren't even together at the time of the murder and there's no evidence to link them to this crime." She added: "I really hope this time the CCRC will listen and that they'll at least do a forensic review of any remaining samples. "If Ray's case does get referred to the court of appeal - then this could be one of the longest miscarriages of justice known in the UK."

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STORY: "Man who served 36 years in jail for murder launches new bid to clear his name," published by ITV Granada Reports, on June 24, 2025.

GIST: "A man who served 36 years behind bars for the savage murder of a betting shop manager has told ITV Granada Reports he's innocent of the crime and will never give up fighting to clear his name.

Ray Gilbert, 66, was convicted of stabbing John Suffield Junior 19 times at the Coral Racing Shop, on Lodge Lane, Toxteth, in what was believed to have been a botched robbery in 1981.

Mr Gilbert, who was aged 22 at the time of his arrest, initially admitted the crime - but says he was coerced and threatened into confessing during 48-hours of police questioning staged without legal representation or an appropriate adult.

He has maintained his innocence even though it cost him an extra 20 years in prison because of his refusal to confess to a Parole Board.

Mr Gilbert was eventually released in 2016 and has kept up the flight to clear his name.

Co-defendant, John Karmara, had his conviction overturned in 2001, when an appeal court found hundreds of witness statements were kept from the defence team.

But because Mr Gilbert initially confessed to the killing, he has never had the chance to appeal his own conviction.

Now an independent investigator is helping him with a fresh bid to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC).

Mr Gilbert said: "I want to prove my innocence. I want to be able to hold my head up high.

"It's nothing to do about money, I just want my innocence proven.

"You can't let one out and then say the evidence is ok, when the appeal court's already ruled the evidence is useless."

But he now has the support of independent investigator Stephanie Davies.

"Ray was vulnerable when he was questioned," she said.

"I think the police may have been aware that he was vulnerable and he's ended up confessing to a crime that I don't think he did.

"The details in his confessions don't match what I'm seeing at the crime scene."

She added: "Every time Ray's applied to the CCRC, they have said there's no new evidence.

"But this time, I'm offering a brand new argument."

The team also say that - just like John Karmara's case - there is documentary evidence which proves Mr Gilbert could not have committed the crime.

Hayley Wood, a Miscarriage of Justice Advocate, who is also working on Ray's behalf said: "It's within these documents we have found certain information that suggests that Ray was certainly not in the place that he was forced to confess to where he was.

"On the run up to Ray's arrest - eye witnesses described the attackers, or those trying to gain access to the building as being white men, and then once Ray was arrested, witnesses were then saying they were mixed race.

"Ray and John Kamara weren't even together at the time of the murder and there's no evidence to link them to this crime."

She added: "I really hope this time the CCRC will listen and that they'll at least do a forensic review of any remaining samples.

"If Ray's case does get referred to the court of appeal - then this could be one of the longest miscarriages of justice known in the UK."

A Merseyside Police spokesperson said: “The Criminal Case Review Commission (CCRC) has previously reviewed the conviction of Raymond Gilbert following the murder of John Suffield and the grounds for appeal were dismissed and the conviction deemed safe.

"Merseyside Police are aware that a further application has been made to the CCRC, but are unaware of any further detail.""

The entire story can be read at:

https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2025-06-23/man-who-served-36-years-in-jail-for-murder-launches-new-bid-to-clear-his-name?fbclid=IwY2xjawLLfPtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHoVDmR5EIKfBtDWBEKjGg256PLg95dwV-Wc5zIT1U3a5QrVRwSQFVNRPc_Qk_aem_2Z3HMdgeHQY7fccAQpoVKQ

PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic"  section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com.  Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.

SEE BREAKDOWN OF  SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG,  AT THE LINK BELOW:  HL:

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985

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FINAL WORD:  (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases):  "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."

Lawyer Radha Natarajan:

Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;

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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions.   They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!

Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;

Antonio McDowell: Chicago: (Police coersion of eyewitnesses): A disgraced (but still unpunished) Chicago Police Department Detective Reynaldo Guevara case: Exonerated after 23 years of wrongful imprisonment - the 51st individual on thelist of homicide exonerations tied to disgraced former Chicago Police Department detective Reynaldo Guevara, WGN9 (ReportercBrónagh Tumulty and Digital Supervising Producer Eli Ong) reports, noting that: "What’s unusual about McDowell’s case is that he originally came to a CPD police station as the victim of a shooting. “Guevara said you’re going to identify this person as the person who shot you,” said Anand Swaminathan, one of McDowell’s attorneys. “Antonio said no, I did not see who shot me. Guevarra tried to force and pressure him into who Guevara wanted him to pick.” Swaminathan said when McDowell refused to cooperate, he was punished and hounded, instead of helped. “He came there as a victim of a crime,” Swaminathan said. “He left with murder charges for a crime he didn’t commit.”

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "Guevara’s misconduct is well documented. He’s accused of framing dozens of young men in the 1980s and 1990s, predominantly on the city’s West Side. WGN TV News has found local taxpayers have spent well over $120 million investigating, settling and defending claims of misconduct made against Guevara, with dozens more lawsuits still pending in court. “Guevara did not incarcerate me, he incarcerated justice itself,” McDowell said."

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PASSAGE ONE OF THE DAY: "McDowell was released in 2020 when Governor JB Pritzker granted his clemency petition and commuted his sentence to time served, based on an emergency commutation request tied to McDowell’s COVID-related health risks. Since August 2022, the State’s Attorney’s Office under Kim Foxx’s administration no longer disputed Guevara’s misconduct, particularly a well-documented pattern of threatening and abusing eyewitnesses into making identifications, manipulating alibi statements, and fabricating evidence. Earlier this May, after a day-long evidentiary hearing, Cook County Circuit Judge Maria Judge Kuriakos-Ciesil issued a decision vacating McDowell’s conviction, emphasizing his account of going from victim to suspect, and Guevara’s pattern of misconduct.

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PASSAGE  TWO OF THE DAY: "Guevara has never been charged with a crime and currently lives in Texas. He’s repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to comment on any of the 51 exonerations tied to his career as a CPD detective. He retired from CPD 20 years ago and since then, has collected more than $1 million in pension benefits from the City of Chicago."

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STORY: "Chicago man exoerated after 23 years of wrongful imprisonment, by 

Brónagh Tumulty and  Digital Supervising Producer Eli Ong, published  bye WGN9, on June 2, 2025.

GIST:  "The list of homicide exonerations tied to disgraced former Chicago Police Department detective Reynaldo Guevara grew Monday, with Antonio McDowell becoming the 51st individual exonerated in a Guevara case.

McDowell’s homicide conviction was officially tossed after a court hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse Monday morning. In total, he spent 23 years wrongfully imprisoned from 1997 to 2020, and has been living with the weight of a wrongful conviction for nearly 28 years.

I’m free for the first time in nearly 30 years,” McDowell said at a press conference following the court hearing. “I’m free.”

McDowell was released in 2020 when Governor JB Pritzker granted his clemency petition and commuted his sentence to time served, based on an emergency commutation request tied to McDowell’s COVID-related health risks.

Since August 2022, the State’s Attorney’s Office under Kim Foxx’s administration no longer disputed Guevara’s misconduct, particularly a well-documented pattern of threatening and abusing eyewitnesses into making identifications, manipulating alibi statements, and fabricating evidence.

Earlier this May, after a day-long evidentiary hearing, Cook County Circuit Judge Maria Judge Kuriakos-Ciesil issued a decision vacating McDowell’s conviction, emphasizing his account of going from victim to suspect, and Guevara’s pattern of misconduct.

This is the second post-conviction hearing in a case tied to Reynaldo Guevara since State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke took office, both resulting in the Court deciding to vacate the convictions.

What’s unusual about McDowell’s case is that he originally came to a CPD police station as the victim of a shooting.

“Guevara said you’re going to identify this person as the person who shot you,” said Anand Swaminathan, one of McDowell’s attorneys. “Antonio said no, I did not see who shot me. Guevarra tried to force and pressure him into who Guevara wanted him to pick.”

Swaminathan said when McDowell refused to cooperate, he was punished and hounded, instead of helped.

“He came there as a victim of a crime,” Swaminathan said. “He left with murder charges for a crime he didn’t commit.”

Guevara’s misconduct is well documented. He’s accused of framing dozens of young men in the 1980s and 1990s, predominantly on the city’s West Side. WGN TV News has found local taxpayers have spent well over $120 million investigating, settling and defending claims of misconduct made against Guevara, with dozens more lawsuits still pending in court.

“Guevara did not incarcerate me, he incarcerated justice itself,” McDowell said.

Expenditures tied to former CPD detective now more than $126M

Even with a lengthy record of misconduct by Guevara, and Cook County and state lawmakers returning McDowell’s freedom, a wrongful conviction is not a universally held belief by those involved in McDowell’s case.

In a 2020 article from the Chicago Tribune, Ruth Morales-Santana—the victim in a carjacking CPD connected to the fatal shooting McDowell was originally convicted of in 1997—told the Tribune she vividly remembers the crime and is certain it was McDowell who robbed her.

She was a single mother of four kids running an errand ahead of her son’s birthday when an assailant pointed a gun at her stomach and repeatedly threatened to kill her.

“It was him,” Morales-Santana told the Tribune at the time. “And he knows it.”

After being found guilty in 1999, McDowell offered condolences to the victim of the shooting and maintained his innocence during his sentencing.

“I was framed,” McDowell said at the time. “Police know they framed me because when they arrested me I was a victim. … They placed me in the lineup. I am talking about I ain’t have no knowledge of [Mario] Castro, his family. I didn’t murder him. Putting me under the jail [is] not going to make the family happy because the killer is still at large. You all, I mean, I can’t, I don’t even know what to say. I know I didn’t kill that man. That is not my M.O. That is all I have to say.”

McDowell was sentenced to 103 years in prison. Before Pritzker granted his clemency petition in 2020 and he was formally exonerated on Monday, his first opportunity for release would have been in July 2048.

Guevara has never been charged with a crime and currently lives in Texas. He’s repeatedly invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to comment on any of the 51 exonerations tied to his career as a CPD detective.

He retired from CPD 20 years ago and since then, has collected more than $1 million in pension benefits from the City of Chicago.

The entire story can be read at:

https://wgntv.com/news/chicago-news/cook-county-man-exonerated-after-23-years-of-wrongful-imprisonment/

PUBLISHER'S NOTE:  I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic"  section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com.  Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.

SEE BREAKDOWN OF  SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AM FOLLOWING ON THIS BLOG,  AT THE LINK BELOW:  HL:

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/4704913685758792985

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FINAL WORD:  (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases):  "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."

Lawyer Radha Natarajan:

Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;

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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions.   They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!

Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;

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