Nashville DA's Office Seeks to Vacate Claude Garrett's 29-Year-Old Murder Conviction
24 November 2021
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24 November 2021
Almost 30 years after Claude Garrett was accused of setting a fire that killed his girlfriend, Lorie Lance, the district attorney’s office in Nashville, Tennessee, has concluded that there is no evidence the fire was arson — and that Garrett was wrongfully convicted of Lance’s murder. In a notice of intent filed in Davidson County Criminal Court on Monday, District Attorney Glenn Funk told a judge that “clear and convincing evidence” indicates that Garrett is likely innocent, signaling the DA’s intention to request that Garrett’s conviction be vacated and the charges against him dismissed. The DA’s notice was filed alongside ...
Nashville DA’s Office Seeks to Vacate Claude Garrett’s 29-Year-Old Murder Conviction
A reinvestigation of the case “dismantles every single piece of evidence previously believed to inculpate Garrett,” the director of the DA’s Conviction Review Unit wrote.
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