Please watch Sedley’s hearing along with us today at 1 p.m. CST

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John —

In 2006, despite tell-tale signs of a wrongful conviction, the State of Tennessee executed Innocence Project client Sedley Alley without testing DNA evidence that may have proven his innocence.

Today at 1 p.m. CST, lawyers for April Alley, Sedley’s daughter, will argue before the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals for the right to finally test the evidence. Will you tune in to watch the live hearing with us? ([link removed])
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Sedley and April Alley.
The courts refused to test the evidence before Sedley was executed, but years later, in State v. Powers, the Tennessee Supreme Court admitted its basis for denying testing was wrong. Yet April’s petition to test the DNA after her father’s death was still denied by the court in 2019. The argument today is an appeal resulting from that decision.

In 1985, Sedley was convicted of the rape and murder of Suzanne Marie Collins despite weak physical and eyewitness identification evidence against him. The tire tracks found at the crime scene were not from Sedley’s vehicle and recovered shoe prints did not match his shoes. Key eyewitness accounts also don’t match Sedley’s description. He told April and members of his legal team that he was coerced into confessing to a crime he didn’t commit.

“It’s too late for my father, but it’s not too late to find the truth,” April said of her father’s case. This is the ultimate quest for truth and justice for Sedley.

So if you can, please watch Sedley’s hearing along with us today at 1 p.m. CST ([link removed]) , and then read and share key facts about his case ([link removed]) .

With gratitude,

— The Innocence Project Team
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