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Sean Ellis (Photo: Boston Globe) At 3:49 a.m. on September 26, 1993, Steven Bannister, an employee of a Walgreens in the Roslindale section of Boston, Massachusetts, rushed into the store and yelled for the manager to call 911. Bannister had been outside on a break and found 52-year-old John Mulligan, a Boston Police detective working on a paid ...
In my memoir, IN FOR LIFE: A Journey into Murder, Corruption, and Friendship, published in July 2023, I describe my participation in the case of Sean Ellis, my son’s childhood friend who was wrongfully convicted — at his third trial, in September 1995 — of the murder of Boston Police Detective John J. Mulligan and sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole.
Jan 11, 2022 · The wrongful conviction of Sean Ellis, who spent 22 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit thanks to corrupt Boston police, is shining a light on the need for a broader investigation into dirty cops involved in false conviction cases, Ellis' attorney, Rosemary Scapicchio told Jim Braude on Greater Boston.
Oct 2, 2023 · One of those men is Sean Ellis.“I was in prison for, to be exact, 21 years, seven months and 29 days,” Ellis said. ... Ellis eventually received a multi-million dollar settlement from the city ...
May 5, 2021 · Crime Sean Ellis is slated to have one last charge dropped in the 1993 murder of a Boston police officer “This whole case is a very sad chapter in the history of our criminal justice system."
May 4, 2021 · BOSTON, Mass. [May 4, 2021] – Today, Superior Court Associate Justice Robert Ullmann allowed Sean Ellis’s Motion for New Trial on the gun conviction remaining on his record from his wrongful conviction for the 1993 murder of Boston Police Detective John Mulligan, which was overturned in 2015 after Mr. Ellis spent more than 21 years in ...
Nov 19, 2020 · Sean Ellis was 19 years old in 1993 when he was arrested for the murder of a Boston police officer, having unwittingly placed himself at the scene of the crime in an unrelated police interview.
