The man who was imprisoned for 32 years for a crime that he says he did not commit and after 2 years free had to return to prison

Crosley Green spent 32 years behind bars in Florida For a murder he says he didn’t commit. He achieved his freedom and two years later, when he was rebuilding his life, he had to return to prison on Monday, April 17.

On April 18, 2021, Crosley Green, 65 years old, was released on probation. Three years earlier, an Orlando federal court had overturned his conviction for life imprisonment which was dictated to him for the murder of a 21-year-old man named Charles ‘Chip’ Flynn, in 1989. The state of Florida appealed the decision.

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The court concluded that in this case that occurred in Titusville, in central Florida, Green he had been wrongfully convicted and had his constitutional rights violated, as reported by his legal team, the law firm Crowell & Moring.

The judge who heard his case determined that Brevard County prosecutors withheld information related to the suspicions of police officers who had concluded that it was Kim Hallock, the victim’s ex-girlfriend, who committed the crime.

After being released, Green he was placed on house arrest while the state of Florida’s appeals to the Supreme Court proceeded.

A strawberry ice cream with his lawyers one day after his release marked the beginning of a new life for Crosley Green.

Green poses with attorneys Jeane Thomas and Keith Harrison one day after his release. (Crowell & Moring).

Last year, Florida won the appeal to the Supreme Court and succeeded that Green’s life sentence be reinstated.

CNN reported that during his two years of freedom Crosley Green worked at a machine grafting facility, attended church and spent time with his grandchildren. He even fell in love.

I’ve been with this man for two years. his fiancee told CNN Kathy Spikes. “Not being able to have a 5 o’clock phone call to say, ‘I’m home,’ for me to say, ‘What do you want for dinner,’ that’s what worries me,” she added.

The lawyers of Green They told The Washington Post, before his return to prison, that there is no direct evidence linking him to the murder of flynnand that the prosecution witnesses have recanted.

Finally, Crosley Green returned to prison two weeks after the federal district judge Roy Dalton ruled that he should turn himself in to the authorities before April 17 to resume his life imprisonment.

Green he turned himself in to the Florida Department of Corrections at 5 p.m. Monday, according to his attorneys. He was accompanied by Spikesfamily and his attorneys Keith Harrison and Jeane Thomas, who have represented him for 15 years.

Judge dalton had allowed Green remain free while he exhausted his legal options.

His legal team petitioned the US Supreme Court, but in late February the court refused to hear his case.

“I can’t be mad at anyone” Green told CNN. “I don’t want anyone else to get mad at anyone. Anger will get you nowhere. It’s not going to do (anything) but hurt you. I’m happy. I’m not happy to go back. I have my future wife, I have my friends who came here with me. I have my family.”

Judge Roy Dalton noted in its decision that the evidence that apparently favored the version of innocence of Green it was not material for this case.

“They refused to look at it, they refused to investigate that possibility,” said attorney Jeane Thomas.

For the defense, this process is an example of the racial prejudice that exists within the American justice system.

The only options for Green to regain his freedom now are pardon or probation, according to his legal team.

Crosley Green was arrested for the death, on April 3, 1989, of Charles ‘Chip’ Flynn. The 22-year-old man was shot to death in a Florida orange grove.

Flynn’s ex-girlfriend kim hallock, told police that she and her boyfriend had been kidnapped by a black man. The woman maintained that she managed to escape.

Then Hallock identified Green among a series of photographs presented by the authorities.

A photo that was presented to witnesses. (US District Court for the Middle District of Florida).

There was no physical evidence linking Green to the shooting. He said he was at a party at the time of the murder.

Green was arrested and charged with kidnapping, robbery and murder.despite the lack of direct evidence.

The CBS chain narrates that only a few months after the shooting, two Brevard County officers who had been the first to arrive at the crime scene expressed doubts about Green’s arrest.

the patrol assistant mark rixey and the sergeant Diane Clarke They sought out Assistant State’s Attorney Christopher White and told him that they thought hallock was the likely shooter. Hallock’s story is inconsistent, both officers assured White.

“I told her I thought she did it,” White assured. He added that the prosecutor took note of the meeting, but did not share the information with the attorney for Green.

At the trial, prosecutors presented three witnesses, including Green’s own sister, who claimed that he had confessed to the crime. Later, all three recanted, saying they had been pressured into testifying against Green.

In 1990, during the trial, Green was offered a plea deal but refused to accept it, maintaining his innocence. He was found guilty by an all-white jury and sentenced to death. Lawyers eventually removed him from death row due to errors in the sentencing process, and his final sentence was life imprisonment.

Source: Elcomercio