Attorneys with RM_Innocence worked for years to prove Michael W. Thompson’s innocence. Now, 14 years later, the Wisconsin man's name has been cleared.
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Thompson is the latest defendant to be exonerated through the work of attorneys at the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center, executive director Kristy Columbia said. The Salt Lake City-based group began investigating Thompson’s innocence claim in 2015, according to a, where Thompson’s attorney Jensie Anderson is a faculty member.
Thompson’s attorneys never questioned the PC Miler report, the court found, and it was later determined that McHugh said the prosecutor’s statement was clearly improper. For that and other reasons, she decided in January 2014 that attorneys should try the case again. Appellate judges Gregory Orme and James Davis concurred. The charges were ultimately dismissed in April 2014.Soon after, the innocence center began reviewing the case. Attorneys filed a petition to affirm Thompson’s innocence in 2017.
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