Saturday, June 14, 2014

ONCE EXONERATED OF MURDER, BUT HE’S NOT LIKELY TO BE EXONERATED THIS TIME

Exonerated by DNA evidence of murdering and raping a 3-year-old girl, Andre Davis was released from an Illinois prison after serving 32 years only to murder a man 15 months later

Andre Davis served 32 years in prison for the murder and rape of a 3-year-old girl before he was exonerated by DNA evidence. But only 15 months after his release from prison in 2012, he murdered a man during a dispute over a lousy crap game.

Davis, 53, was charged Thursday with the 2013 murder of Jamal Harmon. The 19-year-old victim was attending a party thrown by a nephew of Davis when he got into an argument with the nephew over money lost in a crap game. The nephew promptly shot Harmon in the face, lower neck and left armpit. When Davis saw that the victim was still alive, he stabbed Harmon four times, slashing his throat in the process. Davis then put Harmon in the trunk of a Cadillac, drove off, and dumped him in an alley where the Chicago cops found him later that day.

It sort of looks like that exoneration did not work out too well. The exonerated ex-con is jailed without bail.

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