She was released from a Georgia prison on Wednesday after 15 years.
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John —
We could not be happier to share a bit of good news. Sheila Denton, a client of the Southern Center for Human Rights (SCHR), was freed from a Georgia prison on Wednesday after 15 years. She was convicted of a 2004 murder in Waycross, Georgia largely based on faulty bite mark evidence.
Two months ago, Denton’s murder conviction was reversed — with assistance from the Innocence Project — after prosecutors chose not to appeal an emergency motion to release her in light of the court’s decision and the risk of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sheila Denton with her lawyers Mark Loudon-Brown and Katherine Moss of the Southern Human Rights Center. Photo courtesy of Southern Center for Human Rights.
“I am overjoyed that Ms. Denton, a mother and grandmother, is free at last, and has been removed from the horrifying prospect of surviving the COVID-19 outbreak from inside prison walls,” said Chris Fabricant, director of strategic litigation at the Innocence Project, who collaborated with SCHR on the case.
“I also applaud the court’s thoughtful opinion, acknowledging that bite mark evidence has no place in our criminal justice system and reversing Ms. Denton’s wrongful conviction, which was based nearly entirely on pseudoscience.”
Thank you for your support,
—The Innocence Project Team
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