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Anthony Porter (born 1955) is a mentally-disabled Chicago resident and was a prisoner on death row who was convicted of the 1982 murder of two teenagers, before his conviction was overturned in 1999 due to the investigation of Northwestern University professors and students from the Medill School of Journalism as part of the Medill Innocence Project. Porter is notable for being an exonerated death row inmate who was once 50 hours away from execution. The way in which the exoneration was obtained remains controversial. Another Chicago man, Alstory Simon, was identified by the Medill Innocence Project as the true culprit. Simon confessed the crime on videotape, pleaded guilty, and was convicted in 1999. Simon later claimed that his confession was made under false pretenses. One of the two professors, David Protess, was suspended by Northwestern University in 2011 as a result of the controversy, and Simon was himself exonerated in 2014. ==The crime== On August 15, 1982, two teenagers, Marilyn Green and her fiance Jerry Hillard, were shot and killed near a swimming pool in Washington Park on the south side of Chicago. Porter, then a 27-year-old gang member, was implicated in the crime by William Taylor, who had been swimming in the pool at the time of the shooting. Initially, Taylor said that he had not seen the crime itself. Later he said that he had seen Porter run past shortly after the shots. Eventually, he claimed to have seen Porter actually firing the shots. Ultimately, at least six witnesses implicated Porter in the shooting, including one who claimed to have been robbed by Porter, at gunpoint, a short time earlier, in the park.〔http://newcity.com/2014/02/20/crossing-lines-whats-wrong-with-the-wrongful-conviction-movement/#more-10049〕 Police were given leads pointing toward other suspects, including information from Green's mother suggesting that a man named Alstory Simon had killed the pair for drug-related reasons, but they chose to pursue only Porter. Upon hearing that he was under suspicion, Porter went to the police in the hope of clearing his name . He was immediately arrested and charged with the two murders, one count of armed robbery, one count of unlawful restraint, and two counts of unlawful use of weapons. After a short trial during which, according to court transcripts, Porter's lawyer fell asleep and never met with Porter himself until just before the start of proceedings , Judge Robert L. Sklodowski sentenced Porter to death, calling him a "perverse shark." An appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court was denied in February 1986, and an appeal to the United States Supreme Court was denied the following year. Porter continued to file appeals in the years that followed, delaying the execution. In 1995 Porter was tested to have an IQ of 51, meaning that he may have been moderately retarded. A new appeal was filed on the grounds that Porter was incapable of understanding his punishment. Forty-eight hours before he was scheduled to be executed in 1998, another stay was granted. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anthony Porter」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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