Entries tagged with “Kevin Dowling”

Mar 17, 2022

Pennsylvania Court Finds State Trooper Fabricated Evidence, Awards Death-Row Prisoner Kevin Dowling New Trial

A Pennsylvania trial court has granted a new trial to death-row prisoner Kevin Dowling (pictured), finding that prosecutors withheld evidence that would have shown he was 40 miles away when their sole eyewitness claimed to have seen him near the murder scene. In a ruling issued February 22, 2022, Lebanon County Senior Judge Robert J. Eby, sitting by designation in Dowling’s York County case, also found that prosecutors failed to correct the testimony of a state trooper who fabricated a…