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Nov 13, 2020 · Ellis is now a free man, but apparently, hasn’t gotten any sort of compensation for being wrongfully imprisoned. Ellis was released from prison in 2015, but there’s been no word on any compensation for his time behind bars. Ellis was arrested in Oct. 1993 for the shooting death of Boston detective John Mulligan a week earlier.
May 4, 2021 · Judge overturns remaining conviction against Sean Ellis. Published 1:38 PM PDT, May 4, 2021. BOSTON (AP) — A judge on Tuesday threw out the remaining gun conviction against a man who spent who spent more than 20 years in prison for the killing of a police officer before his murder conviction was overturned. The judge’s decision comes more ...
Nov 11, 2020 · The case against Ellis and his friend Terry Patterson over the murder of Detective John Mulligan, 52, was always thin: circumstantial eyewitnesses who didn’t testify in the third trial; the fact ...
Sean K. Ellis was convicted in 1995 for the 1993 murder of Boston Detective John Mulligan. He always proclaimed his innocence. In 2015 a judge overturned his convictions, ruing "justice was not done at his trials.." Charges against Ellis were dropped in 2018. All told, he spent 21 years, 7 months, and 29 days behind bars for a crime he did not ...
Nov 12, 2020 · In 1993, Det. John Mulligan of the Boston Police Department was shot and killed, execution-style, in the parking lot of a Walgreens. He was sleeping in an SUV in the parking lot when the murder ...
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 ...
Oct 2, 2023 · Massachusetts exonerees press to lift $1M cap on compensation for the wrongfully convicted. Sean Ellis, 49, of Boston, who spent more than 20 years in prison for the 1993 killing of a police officer before his murder conviction was overturned, stands in front of the Massachusetts Statehouse Monday, Oct. 2, 2023, to call for an overhaul what ...
