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Tennessee Criminal Appeals Court Hears Appeal for Posthumous DNA Testing in Sedley Alley Case

Lawyers for the daughter of a man executed by Tennessee have asked a state appeals court to permit DNA testing that could prove his innocence. In a virtual hearing before the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals on February 3, 2021 (see picture), former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement urged the court to order DNA testing that, he argued, could exonerate Sedley Alley. Alley, who was executed in 2006, had been convicted of rape and murder in the death of 19-year-old Marine Lance Cpl. Suzanne Collins in a park near a Marine base in Millington, Tennessee in 1985. With the assistance of the Innocence Project, Alley’s daughter April had petitioned the Shelby County Criminal Court in 2019 under the Tennessee DNA Analysis requesting DNA testing of physical evidence in the case. She made the request on behalf of her father’s estate after the Innocence Project had received a tip from law enforcement that a suspected serial killer arrested in an unrelated murder had attended classes w

Daughter of executed man wants DNA to prove his innocence

Daughter of executed man wants DNA to prove his innocence by Travis Loller, The Associated Press Posted Feb 3, 2021 5:06 pm EDT Last Updated Feb 3, 2021 at 5:14 pm EDT NASHVILLE The daughter of a Tennessee man executed 14 years ago for murder wants to test DNA evidence to prove his innocence. If the effort is successful, it would be the first time such evidence was used to prove someone was wrongly executed in the U.S. Attorneys for April Alley presented arguments before the state appeals court on Wednesday. Her father, Sedley Alley, died by lethal injection in 2006 after being convicted of the murder of Marine Lance Cpl. Suzanne Collins two decades earlier. Alley confessed to the crime, but later said the confession was coerced.

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