{"id":1470,"date":"2020-12-08T23:27:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=135754"},"modified":"2020-12-08T23:27:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T23:27:48","slug":"independent-panel-of-legal-experts-call-on-new-minnesota-cru-to-investigate-myon-burrells-2002-conviction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/08\/independent-panel-of-legal-experts-call-on-new-minnesota-cru-to-investigate-myon-burrells-2002-conviction\/","title":{"rendered":"Independent Panel of Legal Experts Call on New Minnesota CRU to Investigate Myon Burrell\u2019s 2002 Conviction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">An independent panel of national legal experts has raised serious concerns about the conviction and sentence of Myon Burrell for the 2002 shooting death of eleven-year-old Tyesha Edwards. Experts argue that no purpose is served by Mr. Burrell\u2019s continued incarceration and recommend that his case be investigated by the Minnesota Attorney General\u2019s Office\u2019s newly established Conviction Review Unit (CRU). Mr. Burrell, who was 16 years old at the time of the shooting in South Minneapolis but charged as an adult, has served 18 years of his life sentence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The independent panel, formed in July 2020, was convened by Laura Nirider, co-director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.northwestern.edu\/legalclinic\/wrongfulconvictions\/\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Center on Wrongful Convictions<\/a> at Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, and Barry Scheck, co-founder of the Innocence Project and Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law who brought together a powerful body of experts to review the case.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/innocenceproject.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/2020-12-Burrell-Report-Master.pdf\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read the findings here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/innocenceproject.org\/independent-panel-of-legal-experts-call-on-new-minnesota-cru-to-investigate-myon-burrells-2002-conviction\/\">Independent Panel of Legal Experts Call on New Minnesota CRU to Investigate Myon Burrell\u2019s 2002 Conviction<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/innocenceproject.org\/\">Innocence Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/2020\/12\/08\/independent-panel-of-legal-experts-call-on-new-minnesota-cru-to-investigate-myon-burrells-2002-conviction\/\">Radio Free<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An independent panel of national legal experts has raised serious concerns about the conviction and sentence of Myon Burrell for the 2002 shooting death of eleven-year-old Tyesha Edwards.\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[525,526,527,528,4,529,348],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions\/1471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}