David Junior Brown, 1980-1999
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David Junior Brown was convicted of two counts of first degree murder and sentenced to death in 1980. At trial, Brown's lawyers attacked the weaknesses in the State's evidence relating to the police investigation and the time of death. Fourteen years after Brown was sentenced to death, the State disclosed that the prosecutor had hidden evidence of innocence from defense counsel; a witness had seen the victims alive at a time that made it virtually impossible for Brown to have committed the crime. At the point at which the State disclosed the exculpatory evidence, Brown's case was in federal court. The federal courts ruled that Brown could not meet the standard for entitlement to habeas relief, and Brown was executed in November 1999.
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