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Lawyer says man deserves new trial
A man convicted of rape last month is appealing his conviction after jurors found a confession that was never offered as evidence in the pocket of a pair of pants they were examining during deliberations.
Stanley Bradley, 41, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after a jury convicted him on March 3 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, first-degree burglary and kidnapping in the 2004 rape of a Calhoun County woman.
During the three-day trial, prosecutors did not enter a written confession into evidence because they could not find a copy.
Once jurors began to deliberate, they were given a pair of Bradley's pants put in evidence.
The same judge that sentenced him, Circuit Judge Dianne Goodstein, must now decide if the discovery of the confession should give Bradley a new trial.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=19495§ion=stateregion
A man convicted of rape last month is appealing his conviction after jurors found a confession that was never offered as evidence in the pocket of a pair of pants they were examining during deliberations.
Stanley Bradley, 41, was sentenced to 25 years in prison after a jury convicted him on March 3 of first-degree criminal sexual conduct, first-degree burglary and kidnapping in the 2004 rape of a Calhoun County woman.
During the three-day trial, prosecutors did not enter a written confession into evidence because they could not find a copy.
Once jurors began to deliberate, they were given a pair of Bradley's pants put in evidence.
The same judge that sentenced him, Circuit Judge Dianne Goodstein, must now decide if the discovery of the confession should give Bradley a new trial.
http://www.charleston.net/stories/?newsID=19495§ion=stateregion