Entries tagged with “Tommy Zeigler”

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Jan 10, 2023

47 Years After His Death Sentence, Florida Court Orders DNA Testing for Tommy Zeigler

Nearly 47 years after being con­vict­ed of a quadru­ple mur­der, Florida death-row pris­on­er Tommy Zeigler has final­ly been per­mit­ted to inde­pen­dent­ly con­duct new DNA test­ing on evi­dence he claims will prove his…

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Oct 31, 2022

Florida Trial Court Conditionally Approves DNA Testing for Tommy Ziegler in 46-Year-Old Death Penalty Case

In what the Tampa Bay Times described as ​“an epic turn­around” in a 46-year-old cap­i­tal case, a Florida tri­al judge is poised to order DNA test­ing of evi­dence death-row pris­on­er Tommy Zeigler has long assert­ed will prove him inno­cent of the quadru­ple mur­der for which he was con­vict­ed and sen­tenced to death in…

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Jul 07, 2022

Florida Supreme Court Rejects State Attorney General’s Attempt to Block DNA Testing in 46-Year-Old Death Penalty Case

The Florida Supreme Court has reject­ed an attempt by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody to pre­vent DNA test­ing and fin­ger­print analy­sis of evi­dence lawyers for Henry Sireci (pic­tured) say could prove him inno­cent of a mur­der that sent him to death row 46 years…

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Nov 05, 2021

Florida Attorney General Appeals Ruling Allowing DNA Testing for Prisoners Who Have Been on Death Row More than 40 Years

The Florida Attorney General’s office has tak­en steps to block DNA test­ing agreed to by local pros­e­cu­tors and approved by the tri­al court for two Florida death-row pris­on­ers who have pro­fessed their inno­cence for more than four…

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Jun 09, 2021

Florida Attorney General Fights to Block DNA Testing that Local Prosecutor Approved for Two Prisoners Who Have Been on Death Row More Than Four Decades

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody (pic­tured) has filed motions in a Florida tri­al court seek­ing to block DNA test­ing that the local elect­ed State Attorney had agreed to and a judge had grant­ed in two 45-year-old Orange County death penalty…

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Mar 30, 2020

After Unanimous House Passage, Florida Senate Fails to Enact DNA Reforms

After receiv­ing unan­i­mous sup­port in the Florida House of Representatives, a bill that would have expand­ed access to post­con­vic­tion DNA test­ing failed in the Florida Senate when the leg­isla­tive body adjourned its 2020 leg­isla­tive ses­sion with­out tak­ing up the…

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Feb 07, 2020

States Continue to Oppose DNA Testing in Death Penalty Appeals, Attorneys Ask Why Don’t They Want to Learn the Truth?

The last three men sched­uled for exe­cu­tion in Georgia said they did not com­mit the killing and that DNA test­ing that was not avail­able at the time of tri­al could prove it. In two of the cas­es, vic­tim fam­i­ly mem­bers sup­port­ed the request for test­ing. Prosecutors opposed the requests, and the courts refused to allow the test­ing. Two of the three men were exe­cut­ed, with doubts still swirling as to their…

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Dec 21, 2018

18 Years After Enacting DNA Law, Florida Death-Row Prisoners Are Still Being Denied Testing

Florida courts have refused death-row pris­on­ers access to DNA test­ing sev­en­ty times, deny­ing 19 men – eight of whom have been exe­cut­ed – any test­ing at all and pre­vent­ing nine oth­ers from obtain­ing test­ing of addi­tion­al evi­dence or more advanced DNA test­ing after ini­tial tests were incon­clu­sive. For a six-part inves­tiga­tive series, Blood and truth: The lin­ger­ing case of Tommy Zeigler and how Florida fights DNA test­ing, Tampa Bay Times Pulitzer-prize winning…

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Dec 28, 2004

Grant Zeigler an Opportunity to Prove his Innocence

Published on Tuesday, December 28, 2004 by the Miami Herald by Bianca…