“We walked out our doors one day, and we didn’t come back until 15 years later,” Phillips said.
Lexi Bauer, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office, said in a statement that the office does not have a policy of withholding evidence. Sutton, Phillips and two other men were arrested on May 29, 2006, after Lentz and Keane said they witnessed someone shooting from Sutton’s car into another car in heavy traffic on Woodland Avenue. Two men in the other car were shot in the head. They later survived.
One of the officers, Gregory Jones, wrote in a letter to Phillips that he told a prosecutor on the case what he saw, and the prosecutor elected not to call him as a witness. Jones was later fired after he was convicted of rape. He is serving a prison sentence. Defense attorneys say the men’s convictions are among several that courts have overturned since the 1970s. The issue, the attorneys say, stems from Cleveland police and county prosecutors withholding evidence that called someone’s guilt into question.
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