PASSAGE TWO OF THE DAY: "The complaint cites a series of specific cases and investigations, including a 1992 review by lawyer James St. Clair that found persistent civil-rights issues in a department that almost seemed to go out of its way to create and condone "shoddy, halfhearted investigations, lengthy delays, and inadequate documentation and record-keeping" that led to an "unnecessarily dangerous situation for the citizens of the City of Boston." The complaint charges: The BPD's widespread unconstitutional practices continued after Mr. Jones was wrongfully prosecuted and convicted, as evidenced by the wrongful convictions of at least: Ulysses Charles, Frederick Clay, James Watson, James Gallarelli, Shawn Drumgold, Robert Foxworth, Keyon Sprinkle, Clarence Williams, Joseph Jabir Pope, and Floyd Hamilton."
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PASSAGE THREE OF THE DAY: "For the next thirty-two years, Mr. Jones was forced to navigate life wrongfully branded as a murderer. He lived under restrictive parole conditions. He was visited at home at all hours of the night, and was called out of work with no advance notice, so he could pee in a cup while being watched. The psychological and emotional impact of living under parole still torments Mr. Jones to this day."
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STORY: "Man who spent 15 years in prison and 32 years on parole for a Roxbury murder he didn't commit sues city, three detectives he says framed him," by adamg (sic) founder of The Universal Hub, published on October 22, 2025.
Milton Jones, who had his murder conviction for the 1975 murder of a Dudley Square bar owner formally expunged last year, yesterday sued the city and the three Boston Police detectives he says framed him during an era when framing Black men was just a part of the job.
Jones was released on to lifetime parole in 1990, following his conviction for the murder of Albert Dunn, the owner of the Golden Cafe on Palmer Street in what is now Nubian Square.
In 2020, Jones asked for a new trial. In 2022, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office dropped the case citing, among other things, irregularities in evidence against him in 1975, such as the fact that the man who shot the gun called his associate "Larry" and the fact that a witness described the shooter as 5'6", when Jones was 6'2". Also cited: the way police failed to provide evidence that might help his case to his lawyer.
Jones sued in Suffolk Superior Court and last year a judge found in his favor, expunging his conviction from the record, awarding him the maximum $1 million allowed by state law, plus free healthcare and education at any state college or university.
In the civil-rights suit, filed yesterday in Boston federal court, Jones accused then BPD detectives Louis McConkey, Peter O'Malley and John J. Daley of going after him because he had beaten two earlier bogus arrests, including:
When Mr. Jones was a teenager, BPD officers arrested him for a crime he didn't commit. There was no evidence Mr. Jones committed the crime, but he was nevertheless detained in the police station. He was finally released, but only because a large group of civilians gathered outside the police station and publicly demanded he be released from his false arrest. The incident was highly public and highly embarrassing for the BPD.
O'Malley, in particular, specialized in ginning up charges and browbeating witnesses to identify Black men for crimes they didn't commit, all the way up through a failed attempt to frame Willie Bennett in the Charles Stuart case, his complaint alleges.
But, the complaint continues, the three weren't working alone - they were part of a system sanctioned and overseen by the Boston Police Department to seek convictions of Black men for crimes they did not commit.
At the time relevant to this case, there was a pattern, practice, custom, and policy whereby BPD officers created false identifications. Individual "witnesses" who had little or no information about a crime were subjected to repeated police intervention, and the witnesses were incentivized and intimidated into making identifications of individuals whom the police chose as their suspects. Time and again, innocent men were convicted of serious offenses, including rape and murder, and imprisoned for decades based on unreliable and fabricated identification evidence.
The complaint cites a series of specific cases and investigations, including a 1992 review by lawyer James St. Clair that found persistent civil-rights issues in a department that almost seemed to go out of its way to create and condone "shoddy, halfhearted investigations, lengthy delays, and inadequate documentation and record-keeping" that led to an "unnecessarily dangerous situation for the citizens of the City of Boston."
The complaint charges:
The BPD's widespread unconstitutional practices continued after Mr. Jones was wrongfully prosecuted and convicted, as evidenced by the wrongful convictions of at least: Ulysses Charles, Frederick Clay, James Watson, James Gallarelli, Shawn Drumgold, Robert Foxworth, Keyon Sprinkle, Clarence Williams, Joseph Jabir Pope, and Floyd Hamilton.
And all that means the city and BPD are as responsible for his mistreatment as the three detectives, because they were not acting alone, but as part of a corrupt and broken system that superiors knew about and condoned.
Jones says his mistreatment continued long after he was released on parole:
For the next thirty-two years, Mr. Jones was forced to navigate life wrongfully branded as a murderer. He lived under restrictive parole conditions. He was visited at home at all hours of the night, and was called out of work with no advance notice, so he could pee in a cup while being watched. The psychological and emotional impact of living under parole still torments Mr. Jones to this day.
The suit seeks compensatory damages for his wrongful imprisonment and parole. In addition to local attorneys, Jones is represented by a New York firm that specializes in wrongful-imprisonment cases.""
The entire story can be read at:
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.
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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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