Entries tagged with “Percy St. George”
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May 16, 2017
Two Philadelphia Detectives, Three Wrongful Capital Prosecutions
On May 13, 2017, James “Jimmy” Dennis (pictured, center, with some of his defense team) was released from prison after more than 25 years on Pennsylvania’s death row. His release marked the culmination of three unrelated wrongful capital prosecutions in Philadelphia in the early-1990s, with the common thread a pattern of misconduct by the same two Philadelphia homicide detectives. Dennis, Anthony Wright, and Percy St. George were all capitally charged for murder in cases investigated by…