Mexico's High Court Overturns Conviction Of Man Jailed For 23 Years
Source: NPR
Mexico's High Court Overturns Conviction Of Man Jailed For 23 Years
March 20, 2015 4:50 PM ET
Mexico's Supreme Court has overturned the 1992 murder conviction of a dual citizen of Mexico and the U.S. who authorities now say was found guilty based entirely on a confession derived from torture.
Alfonso Martin del Campo Dodd has been in a Mexican prison for 23 years after for the brutal stabbing death of his sister and brother in law. He was sentenced to 50 years.
But Mexico's Supreme Court has ruled that he should be freed "in light of the proof that torture was used to obtain his confession in the two crimes, without there being any other incriminatory evidence."
The court said police tortured Martin del Campo Dodd into confessing to the killings using a plastic bag placed over his head. The court cited administrative proceedings later filed against one of the officers who interrogated him.
Read more: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2015/03/20/394337719/mexicos-high-court-overturns-conviction-of-man-jailed-for-23-years
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