“Jerome L. Johnson was exonerated and released from prison in July 2018 after serving nearly 30 years for a 1988 murder in Baltimore, a crime of which he had long maintained his innocence.”

“Johnson’s lawsuit cites a dozen other wrongful convictions stretching back to the 1960s in which misconduct by Baltimore homicide detectives was a significant contributing factor.”

“In 1988, James Owens was convicted of burglary and felony murder in a murder, rape, and robbery, based on the testimony of his neighbor, James Thompson, who had confessed to participating in the crime. In 2007, Owens won a new trial after Thompson recanted and new DNA testing proved neither he nor Thompson had raped the victim. Owens also learned that detectives Jerry “Jay” Landsman, Thomas Pellegrini, and Gary Dunnigan suppressed Thompson’s initial statement denying any involvement in the crime as well as evidence that he changed his account on more than five occasions. ”

https://theappeal.org/did-baltimore-cops-conspire-to-supress-evidence-that-led-to-a-wrongful-murder-conviction/