In Texas (UNITED STATES), a 46-year-old man named Lydell Grant is charged with fatally shooting a 33-year-old motorist after a minor collision last Thursday in Houston. According to local police, the suspect got out of his vehicle and shot the victim before fleeing. He had just been exonerated after spending eight years in prison for a murder that he had not committed, reports The Parisian.
The Innocent Project
Sentenced to life in 2012, he kept claiming his innocence until the Texas justice cleared him in 2021 and the Houston police chief apologized to him. It was thanks to the organization The Innocent Project, responsible for defending prisoners who were victims of miscarriages of justice, that he had been exonerated.
This organization founded by one of the lawyers of the famous OJ Simpson had succeeded in proving that the DNA found under the fingernails of the victim, a 28-year-old man stabbed at the exit of a bar, did not correspond to that of the victim. defendant, questioning the findings of a Houston police analyst who testified at the trial.
Put back behind bars
Years after the fact, this new element obtained thanks to an independent analysis laboratory put the investigators on the track of another suspect. Confused by the DNA file of the FBIthe latter eventually admitted to stabbing the victim and Grant was cleared.
The Innocent Project, which said it was “saddened” by the news, also offered its condolences to the victim’s family. Arrested by Houston police a few hours after the incident, Lydell Grant was charged and put back behind bars, where he will remain awaiting his new trial for murder.
