Man Freed After 25 Years, Wrongful Conviction

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Another reason Deacon got a retrial was the recantation of witness Colleen Campbell, who testified she had seen the murderer fleeing the crime scene and knew it wasn’t Deacon – but had been afraid of the Jamaican gang and so didn’t want to finger one of them.
“Campbell also testified that she had initially told the police that the perpetrator was not the defendant, but that she had been pressured by police or prosecutors to provide ‘vague’ testimony at trial,” stated the 2009 Appellate Court decision that granted Deacon a new trial.
“Campbell testified that the police and/or prosecutors had threatened to “take away” her children if she did not cooperate with them.”

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Free after being wrongly jailed for almost 25 years
By Josh Saul
November 18, 2013 | 4:47pm
New York Post