A South Carolina man once sentenced to die for the murder of a 75-year-old widow was freed on March 2 after a team of attorneys—including J. Christopher Jensen, a New York intellectual property partner at Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman—spent nearly two decades trying to overturn his conviction (NYLJ, Dec. 29, 2011).
As part of a negotiated plea deal, Edward Lee Elmore, 53, maintained his innocence while admitting a jury could possibly convict him for the 1982 rape and murder of Dorothy Edwards if it believed the state’s evidence against him. A South Carolina state court judge then sentenced Mr. Edwards to time served, exactly 11,000 days, and released him.
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