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Mar 9, 2023 · On Thursday, Benson, 47, walked out of the Correctional Industrial Facility in Pendleton a free man after an investigation revealed police failed to disclose critical pieces of evidence,...
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5 days ago · INDIANAPOLIS — A man freed after a wrongful conviction for murder is now suing the City of Indianapolis and police officers he claims concealed evidence to put him behind bars. Leon Benson was convicted in the Aug. 8, 1998 deadly shooting of Kasey Schoen, who was found shot to death in the cab of his truck at 14th and Pennsylvania streets in ...
Mar 11, 2023 · Updated:1:34 AM EDT March 13, 2023. INDIANAPOLIS — An Indianapolis man is free after spending 25 years in prison for an execution-style murder. Leon Benson’s conviction was overturned this week by Marion County Superior Court Judge Shatrese Flowers.
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On March 9, 2023, 47-year-old Leon Benson, who was convicted of a 1998 murder in Indianapolis, Indiana, was freed from prison after his conviction was vacated based on evidence that had been suppressed by the police pointing to another man as the killer.
Mar 11, 2023 · Leon Benson, an Indianapolis man who waswrongly convicted of a first-degree murder that happened in 1998, has become the first person to be exonerated by the Marion County Prosecutor's Office...
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Mar 9, 2023 · Leon Benson, 47, was released from prison in March 2023 after being cleared of the 1998 killing of Kasey Schoen in Indianapolis. An investigation revealed that a police detective withheld evidence implicating another suspect in the case.
Mar 15, 2023 · The investigation by Benson’s defense team, led by Bazelon and Assistant Professor Charlie Nelson Keever, a group of USF law students, and the county conviction integrity unit, revealed that conflicting testimony and buried evidence identified someone else in the 1998 execution-style shooting death of Kasey Schoen in Indianapolis.
