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Mar 9, 2023 · Leon Benson, incarcerated for nearly 25 years for the execution-style murder of a Plainfield man, has steadfastly maintained his innocence.
Mar 8, 2024 · Leon Benson was exonerated from prison after being wrongfully convicted of murder more than 26-years-ago. On Friday, he returned to Indianapolis for a “Rebirth Celebration."
Mar 11, 2023 · Leon Benson, 47, walked out of a state prison in Pendleton Thursday after spending more than half his life behind bars. Leon Benson was convicted for a 1998 execution-style murder in downtown Indianapolis that he didn't commit.
May 20, 2024 · A man exonerated after spending nearly 25 years in prison for murder has filed a lawsuit accusing Indianapolis police officers of not only committing misconduct that led to his wrongful conviction...
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 9, 2023 · On March 9, 2023, Leon Benson, 47, was released from the Correctional Industrial Facility in Pendleton after being exonerated. Benson spent nearly 25 years in prison for a wrongful conviction...
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.
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...
Mar 17, 2023 · Leon Benson was convicted of first-degree murder in 1999, and spent roughly 25 years in prison before the Marion County Superior Court Judge Shatrese M. Flowers in Indiana threw out his conviction ...
Mar 10, 2023 · Leon Benson, 47, left the Correctional Industrial Facility in Pendleton a free man Thursday after an investigation revealed police failed to disclose key evidence, including information implicating someone else in the crime, The Indianapolis Star reported.
