{"id":87851,"date":"2021-11-24T17:11:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=87851"},"modified":"2021-11-24T17:11:46","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T17:11:46","slug":"devonia-inman-sees-his-conviction-overturned-after-23-years-behind-bars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=87851","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;DEVONIA INMAN SEES HIS CONVICTION OVERTURNED AFTER 23 YEARS BEHIND BARS&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/11\/20\/devonia-inman-conviction-overturned\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Intercept<\/a>: &#8220;MORE THAN 20 YEARS\u00a0after Devonia Inman was sentenced to life in prison for a murder he swears he did not commit, a judge in Georgia has overturned his conviction, writing that state misconduct and woefully inadequate defense lawyering rendered Inman\u2019s 2001 conviction unconstitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEither of these constitutional violations, standing alone, demonstrates the fundamental unfairness of Mr. Inman\u2019s trial, undermines the court\u2019s confidence in the outcome of that trial and related conviction, and justifies granting \u2026 relief,\u201d Lookout Mountain Chief Judge Kristina Cook Graham wrote in a 28-page order filed November 16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ruling sets up a choice for the state: Retry Inman for the 1998 murder of 43-year-old Donna Brown or release him. \u201cWe are hopeful that the court\u2019s order will finally bring an end to this matter, and that Mr. Inman will be reunited with his family as soon as possible,\u201d said Tom Reilly, one of Inman\u2019s attorneys.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intercept: &#8220;MORE THAN 20 YEARS\u00a0after Devonia Inman was sentenced to life in prison for a murder he swears he did not commit, a judge in Georgia has overturned his conviction, writing that state misconduct and woefully inadequate defense lawyering rendered Inman\u2019s 2001 conviction unconstitutional. \u201cEither of these constitutional violations, standing alone, demonstrates the fundamental&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87851"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87852,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87851\/revisions\/87852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}