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Innocent!

By AAN Staff
september 4, 2003  02:03 pm
Innocent!
Bay Guardian reporter A.C. Thompson revisits a case he helped break more than two years ago, the murder conviction of John J. Tennison. Thompson's investigation turned up a multitude of problems -- payments to witnesses, concealed exonerating evidence, eyewitness statements that cleared Tennison. Thompson's conclusion was that Tennison had been framed -- with the collusion of high-ranking law enforcement officials. A federal judge agreed and ordered Tennison freed. "Thirteen years after the San Francisco cops and District Attorney's office framed him for murder, John J. Tennison is finally free. So, unfortunately, are the people who framed him," Thompson writes.
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