Marcellus Williams' Innocence Hearing
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•These Prosecutors Push Back As Some States Seek to Help the Wrongfully Convicted
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Marcellus Williams will finally have a hearing on his innocence claims on Wednesday .
The 55-year-old death row prisoner was convicted in the 1998 murder of Felicia Gayle .
A new Missouri law allows local prosecutors to file a motion to throw out convictions of people who they believe to be innocent.
Lawyers for Robert Roberson — who my colleague Maurice Chammah wrote about last year — say that his case ought to be the perfect test for the law. Roberson was convicted in the 2003 death of his 2-year-old daughter under the theory that she died of “shaken baby syndrome,” which has since faced medical and legal scrutiny. Roberson is scheduled for execution in October ..
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