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2 sides in legal battle over fatal Bricelyn Street fire still making their case

When Greg Brown entered a plea 27 years after a fire on Pittsburgh’s Bricelyn Street killed three city firefighters, the government saw it as a victory. Though the unusual Alford plea made earlier this year allows Brown to continue to proclaim his innocence and carries no additional sentence, he took ....

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Braddock man who served 18 years for crime he didn't commit struggled to find his way after release

Drew Whitley spent more than 6,000 days incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit. Just 33 when he entered Pennsylvania’s Department of Corrections in 1989 for the killing of a woman who worked at a McDonald’s restaurant in Duquesne, Whitley was 50 years old by the time DNA evidence cleared ....

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Man expected to enter federal plea in 1995 fire that killed 3 on Pittsburgh's Bricelyn Street

A man whose homicide conviction in a 1995 fire that killed three people on Pittsburgh’s Bricelyn Street was overturned by a state court because of prosecutorial misconduct is scheduled to enter a plea in the case in federal court. Greg Brown Jr., 44, is expected to enter what is called ....

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Pa. man can be re-tried on charges he set 1995 blaze that killed 3 firefighters, U.S. court says

Pa. man can be re-tried on charges he set 1995 blaze that killed 3 firefighters, U.S. court says
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A Pennsylvania man who was serving three consecutive life prison terms for the deaths of three firefighters in a 1995 blaze that investigators said he deliberately ignited can be retried after his initial convictions were overturned, a federal appeals court has ruled.
In making that call, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit rejected Gregory Brown’s argument that trying him again on murder and arson charges would violate the double jeopardy prohibition of the U.S. Constitution. ....

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Appellate court says man can be retried in deaths of 3 Pittsburgh firefighters

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A memorial to Pittsburgh firefighters Marc Kolenda, Patricia Conroy and Capt. Thomas Brooks sits at the base of a flagpole outside of Engine 17 in Homewood, shown here in December 2015.

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A federal appellate court said Tuesday that prosecutors can retry a man whose conviction in the 1995 deaths of three firefighters in the East Hills was overturned.
In a 19-page opinion, the three judge-panel from the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found that the federal retrial of Gregory Brown Jr., on a single charge of malicious destruction of property by fire resulting in death, does not violate his double jeopardy rights. ....

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