Prosecutor seeks to erase Sean Ellis firearm convictions
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Prosecutor seeks to erase Sean Ellis firearm convictions
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They studied how eyewitness evidence is used in the courtroom and offered science-based recommendations going forward.
But it left many people who were convicted before the report still in prison. Hocus-Pocus
James Watson was 20 years old in 1979 when Boston police officers said they wanted to ask him questions about the murder of a cabdriver named Jeffrey Boyajian.
“ ‘Did anybody hear anything or see anything?’ ” Watson recalled the officers ask. “You know, they knock on people s doors. They knocked on my door. And then they stayed at my door.”
At the time, Watson was unemployed, a new father of an infant son. He told police he knew nothing about the crime. But they said two eyewitnesses saw him get into Boyajian’s cab the night he was killed.