Serving a life sentence for a deadly robbery in South St. Paul in 2002, Philip Vance has continually attested to his innocence. Since his conviction, he’s been exhausting all legal options to get another chance in court to prove he’s been wrongfully convicted.
After waiting years for Minnesota’s Conviction Review Unit (CRU) to finalize their investigation on his case, Vance’s legal team filed a new petition for postconviction relief with newly acquired evidence proving his innocence last week. Read the petition here (pdf).
