Honolulu:
An air man who spent 30 years in prison for a murder, refused to declare the day “freedom Friday” and said that he was released after meeting his mother due to new DNA evidence of a judge after meeting his mother. Was eager after ordering.
Judge Kirstin Hamman said the court room had to gasp and cry, “and the verdict and punishment were vacated and the defendant was ordered to be released from custody,” the hearing suddenly stopped before a zoom feed.
He ruled that new evidence, including DNA test results, would possibly change the outcome of another test against Gordon Cordeiro.
The case includes the 1994 murder of Timothy Blisdale during a drug deal robbery on Mau island.
The first test of Cordiro ended in a hung jury, with only one jurner convicted him. But he was later attempted murder, robbery and murder and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.
The air innocent project raised its case, and during a hearing this week argued that Cordero should be released on the basis of new evidence, which proves their innocence, ineffectiveness of their previous lawyer and prosecution’s misconduct.
Mau County’s lawyer Andrew Martin said he was disappointed in the verdict and “None of the judges’ findings excludes them in any way.”
His office intends to appeal and files a proposal seeking bail on the release of Cordiro, said Martin said that there is a flight risk because a murder is accused.
Kenneth Lawson, the co-director of the air innovation project, said it was a very emotional moment.
“He cried, we all cried,” Lawson said. “He believed that he was going to be excluded … but after going through two tests, you lose confidence in the justice system. Finally to hear a judge, saying, ‘I have to listen to your faults. I am emptying, ‘When he hit him.
After his release, Cordiro, now 51, Mauye community stood outside the correction center and spoke to reporters, called it “Freedom Friday”. Associated Press heard from Honolulu by phone.
He said that he felt grateful. He thanked his supporters, judges and even prosecutors who determined some facts in the case.
“I want to go to see my mother,” said Cordero. “It would be good.”
Asked about adjusting life as an independent person 30 years after the bars, he said, “I got good support.”
According to court documents filed by Cordero lawyers, he was incorrectly convicted as the police had trusted four jailhouse informers, inspired by the promises of low sentences and low-killing plots.
The air innocent project said in a court, “Unfortunately, for the Cordero, the state’s incentive jailhouse informers and their fabricated evidence and their testimony to murder, to explain a jury of their crime in their second case, for their testimony and testimony. Was enough for. ” Sign in.
However, the judge ruled that the state deliberately used false testimony and dismissed the prosecution’s claim of misconduct.
Corderos had several elibis for the day, the day the Blessdale was killed, his lawyers said: The then 22-year-old was at home with his parents and sisters, a cold in his family’s open-air garage during the day Spending on putting in the bag and installing a stereo. In his sister’s car – Aapkantry Mau does not have to be murdered anywhere near the so -called skid row area.
According to court documents, Blaisdell went to Skid Row with a man named Michael Freetas and planned to buy a pound marijuana with $ 800. His body was found at the bottom of a ravine.
Freetas kept changing his story, said the lawyers of Cordeero, and they transferred the blame on their clients, a friend whom he considered to be false that he was “sneezed” in a case of an unrelated drug.
After the punishment of Cordeero, new tests on physical evidence from the scene excluded him as a source of DNA on the body’s body and other crime visual evidence, the air innocent project said, and an unknown person’s AA DNA Profiles Jeans were found on the inside pocket.
The judge agreed that new information about new DNA evidence and gunshot residues would later change the test results.
Cordiro lawyers believe that he died in 2020, who died, looted and involved in his murder.
Lawson said, “The police instigated the matter from the beginning and converted the number 1 suspect into the state star witness, resulting in more than 30 years of nightmare and a abortion of justice for Gordon and his family.”
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