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Susan Marie Mellen, 59, walked free from a Torrance county courthouse Friday after a judge overturned her conviction. She had already served 17 years of a life without parole sentence for supposedly orchestrating the murder of a housemate, Richard Daly.
Mellen was convicted solely on the witness testimony of June Patti, who the judge branded an habitual liar, with a known history of providing false tips to police. She died in 2006.
A man has since been jailed for Richard Daly's murder, and another man who witnessed it took and passed a polygraph after insisting Susan Mellen was not present. Her children have grown up without her and never told a soul that their mom was serving life for murder. She now has a grandchild.
http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/n...f4d-5b99-52c3-b43c-2f1473488d52.html?mode=jqm
Mellen was convicted solely on the witness testimony of June Patti, who the judge branded an habitual liar, with a known history of providing false tips to police. She died in 2006.
A man has since been jailed for Richard Daly's murder, and another man who witnessed it took and passed a polygraph after insisting Susan Mellen was not present. Her children have grown up without her and never told a soul that their mom was serving life for murder. She now has a grandchild.
http://www.heraldandnews.com/news/n...f4d-5b99-52c3-b43c-2f1473488d52.html?mode=jqm
