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Pennsylvania Prisoner Acquitted of Murder After 13-Year Battle – by Defending Himself in Retrial

Loaded on Dec. 10, 2019 by Kevin Bliss published in Prison Legal News December, 2019, page 52
Filed under: Release and Reentry. Location: Pennsylvania.

by Kevin Bliss

Representing himself during a fourth trial on a murder charge, Hassan Bennett was acquitted and released following a 13-year legal fight – an extraordinary feat.

Bennett, 36, was serving a life sentence without parole for the ambush shooting death of a friend, Devon English. His defense was ...

 

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