He was born in Oglethorpe County Atlanta GA, and raised in Athens, GA to the late Lizzie Owens Howard and Guy Howard. Mississippi Government 2021-01-11 Eddie Lee Howard Is Exonerated After 26 Years on Mississippi Death Row (Columbus, MS) Eddie Lee Howard was exonerated on Friday, January 8, 2020, marking the end of his 26-year fight for innocence. The Mississippi Supreme Court ordered a retrial on Thursday for Eddie Lee Howard Jr., who was first sentenced to death in 1994 based largely on bite-mark evidence that has since been discredited. Eddie Lee Howard Jr., 67, had twice been convicted for the 1992 rape and murder of 87-year-old Georgia Kemp in Lowndes County. © 2021 Innocence Project. State courts rather than federal courts are most fre quently called upon to apply the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), 9 U. S. C. §1 et seq., including the Act’s national policy favoring arbitration. Brewer, who is also a Black man, spent 15 years on Mississippi’s death row based on false bite mark evidence. It’s amazing that the attorneys working to free innocent people aren’t working in firms that charge a lot of money to represent people. No. Eddie Lee Howard was twice convicted of the murder of 84-year-old Georgia Kemp, who was found stabbed to death in her home in February 1992. The Innocence Project, moreover, is currently working on two additional post-conviction death penalty convictions, both of which rely heavily on the use of bite mark evidence and are therefore inherently unreliable. Mr. Howard’s conviction for capital murder was overturned by the Mississippi Supreme Court last year, and he was released in December. Mr. Howard’s case is a stark example of how unreliable forensic evidence can lead to wrongful conviction. Among them are the Walter Lomax Act, signed on Tuesday, which improves Maryland’s existing law on compensation for wrongfully convicted people, and “Anton’s Law,” which makes most police disciplinary records public. Help us advocate for the innocent by sharing the latest news from the Innocence Project. The Mississippi Supreme Court overturned Howard’s conviction in August 2020 (see HoC 27/08/2020). Eddie Lee Howard Is Exonerated After 26 Ye... forensic science and the fairness of the system. Mr. Howard walks free today, 26 years after he was first wrongly incarcerated on death row at Parchman Farm — a former slave plantation turned prison, and one of the most dangerous and brutal facilities in the United States. Eddie Lee Howard, Jr., 38, was a logical suspect: He lived two blocks from Kemp and had twice been in prison for sex offenses. He said the bite marks on Ms. Kemp’s body, which he had found using ultraviolet light, matched Mr. Howard’s teeth. The latter got into “confidentiality and non-competition” contract which was a part of the terms and conditions of the employment. Dr. West also testified in those cases, and those convictions were eventually overturned. But he was tried again in 2000 — when prosecutors brought in Dr. West — and convicted. “I agree with the Supreme Court that bite mark evidence has come under important scrutiny,” said the district attorney, Scott Colom. Mr. Howard, a Black man, was sentenced to death in 1994 after being wrongfully convicted of murdering an elderly white woman in Columbus, Mississippi, based almost entirely on now discredited bite mark evidence. When Mr. Howard’s case came to his desk, he said, dismissing it was not a difficult decision. Eddie Lee Howard A judge has signed an order dismissing the case against a Lowndes County man who spent more than 20 years on death row for a wrongful conviction. “It’s a story about junk science, but it’s really about the American criminal justice system,” he said. “Besides that evidence, there was nothing else putting Mr. Howard at the scene of the murder.”. Mr. Colom added that DNA on a weapon at the crime scene had been shown to belong to someone other than Mr. Howard. Eddie Lee is a black man who was arrested in 1992 for the murder of an elderly white woman in Columbus, Mississippi. You can learn more about how we consider cases here. No.”. Eddie Lee Howard following his release from prison in December 2020 (Image: Courtesy of the Mississippi Innocence Project). God bless everyone that is involved with freeing innocent people. Court documents show that in a 2012 deposition for a different case, Dr. West said he did not think bite-mark analysis should be used in court. Kemp’s body was exhumed three days after she was buried because, as the medical examiner put it, there “was some question” – though he had not mentioned it in his autopsy report – that she had been bitten. His decision not to retry this case is the correct one and finally ends Mr. Howard’s wrongful conviction nightmare. On Feb. 8, 1992, police arrested Howard as a suspect in Kemp’s murder. Mr. Howard, a Black man, was sentenced to death in 1994 after being wrongfully convicted of murdering an elderly white woman in Columbus, Mississippi, based almost entirely on now discredited bite mark evidence. Decided November 26, 2012. But in a statement provided by Mr. Fabricant, Mr. Howard thanked those who had fought for his release. Eddie Lee Howard, of Springfield, MA passed away on Saturday February 9, 2019 at age 90, in Heritage Hall East in Agawam, MA, following a brief illness. He was released from Mississippi’s death row in early December 2020 ahead of today’s ruling. 11–1377. The man, Eddie Lee Howard, 67, had remained on death row even though his conviction was based on little more than bite marks on a murder victim, which were presented as evidence at his trial by an expert whose testimony has since been called into question. I am so happy that he was finally released. Join our mailing list to receive the latest news and updates from the Innocence Project: Post-conviction DNA tests and alibi witnesses clear Mr. Howard of capital conviction for 1992 Columbus murder. Howard was convicted of murdering Georgia Kemp back in 1995. “Unless you have DNA, you really can’t use a bite mark to identify somebody,” she added. After Kemp's body was exhumed, Dr. Michael West, a forensic odontologist, examined the dental impressions and the bite marks on Kemp on February 7, 1992. “I want to say many thanks to the many people who are responsible for helping to make my dream of freedom a reality,” said Mr. Howard. Eddie Lee Howard, Jr., consented to have dental impressions taken which were made by Dr. David Curtis on February 6, 1992. ¶6. The death penalty is the most extreme and irreversible form of punishment. New forensic opinion regarding bite marks and powerful alibi witnesses, along with DNA testing of crime scene evidence, including blood and DNA from the murder weapon, excluded Mr. Howard, proving his innocence. Website by MADEO. Mississippi Department of Corrections Eddie Lee Howard Jr. I truly hope that he has an amazing life after what was stolen from him. Eddie Lee Howard, Wrongfully Imprisoned For The Killing a White Woman, Exonerated 26 Years on Death Row by Cedric 'BIG CED' Thornton January 14, 2021 January 13, 2021 683 0 ON PETITION FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE SUPREME COURT OF OKLAHOMA. “We’re thrilled that Mr. Howard will finally have his freedom and some semblance of justice but he has lost nearly three decades of his life facing execution because the system failed. Lowndes County District Attorney Scott Colom decided not to retry the case of 67-year-old Eddie Lee Howard Friday, months after the Mississippi Supreme Court overturned his conviction and … PER CURIAM. The Mississippi Supreme Court granted him a new trial in 1997 after finding the trial court improperly allowed Howard, who is … In both his convictions -- the second of which was in 2000 after the state Supreme Court threw out his 1994 conviction -- the prosecution presented bite mark evidence apparently taken from Kemp's body. “I can make mistakes,” he said. Mr. Allgood, who did not immediately return a message requesting comment on Wednesday, was succeeded by Mr. Colom, who became the county’s district attorney in 2015. Mr. Of the 375 DNA exonerations recorded in the United States since 1989, 225 are Black. A bloody knife was found on the bed. Hair finger prints are junk science and many others. He was 38 at the time he was arrested. The Innocence Project is affiliated with Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. In a landmark decision on August 31, the Mississippi Supreme Court vacated Mr. Howard’s conviction and death sentence, recognizing that his case rested on the debunked technique of bite mark comparison. Eddie Lee Howard has been freed. Eddie Lee Howard is free after spending more than a quarter of a century behind bars, much of it on Mississippi’s death row. These cases are, by no means, isolated. Eddie Lee Howard Jr. At about 8:30 p.m. on February 2, 1992, smoke was spotted coming from the Columbus, Mississippi home of 84-year-old Georgia Kemp. He was convicted of capital murder almost entirely on the basis of fraudulent bite mark analysis, which has since been widely rejected by the forensic science community. A representative from the Columbus Fire Department testified that the two fires set in the victim’s house had “smoldered” for four to six hours before the fire department responded. The measures is a major step toward greater police accountability and justice. “Like Mr. Howard, 21 other men and women on death row across the country have had their innocence proven by DNA, including Kennedy Brewer. And it took "only" 26 years. “The reality is, there was never any evidence against Eddie Lee Howard,” said Chris Fabricant, a lawyer for Mr. Howard and the director of strategic litigation with the Innocence Project. From the beginning of the case, the Lowndes County police lacked any credible suspects and arrested Mr. Howard without any documented, reasonable suspicion. (Columbus, MS) Eddie Lee Howard was exonerated on Friday, January 8, 2021, marking the end of his 26-year fight for innocence. Mr. Howard is represented by Tucker Carrington of the Mississippi Innocence Project, and M. Chris Fabricant, Vanessa Potkin, Peter Neufeld and Dana Delger, all of the Innocence Project, which is affiliated with the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. (Columbus, MS) Eddie Lee Howard was exonerated on Friday, January 8, 2021, marking the end of his 26-year fight for innocence. “This is such a bitter sweet victory,” said Tucker Carrington of the Mississippi Innocence Project. However, based on recent analysis of the available records and trial testimony, John Lentini, one of the country’s top arson investigators, concluded that this testimony — specifically the burn time — had “no basis in known data, research or science.” He further explained, “There is no way that any competent fire expert would opine that the fires burned for longer than an hour.” The victim was likely killed within an hour of the fire’s discovery, when Mr. Howard was at his sister’s house with multiple witnesses, each of whom gave consistent versions of Mr. Howard’s whereabouts in the hours before and after the crime. His first capital murder conviction, in 1994, was overturned by the Mississippi Supreme Court in 1997. Mr. Howard was convicted of the same crime twice. EDDIE LEE HOWARD . On August 27, 2020, the Mississippi Supreme Court granted a new trial to Eddie Lee Howard, Jr. All Rights Reserved. Because human skin is elastic, bite marks can easily become distorted, Dr. Bush said. But in the years since, the method has been criticized by experts who see it as ineffective. Eddie Lee Howard of Mississippi spent more than two decades in prison, but the evidence used to convict him in a 1992 killing is no longer considered reliable. Brewer and Mr. Brooks, were subjects of a 2018 book, “The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist,” by the Washington Post journalist Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington, a law professor at the University of Mississippi. Unfortunately people are unaware of our flawed forensic system. In 1994 Eddie Lee Howard was convicted of raping and murdering 84-year-old Georgia Kemp. Eddie Lee Howard was exonerated on Friday, January 8, 2021, marking the end of his 26-year fight for innocence. Eddie Lee Howard lived two blocks from Kemp. To date, Mr. Howard is one of four Mississippians whose murder conviction has been overturned while serving time on death row as a result of the same discredited and unscientific forensic methods. Please avoid sharing any personal information in the comments below and join us in making this a hate-speech free and safe space for everyone. Mr. Howard’s case is a prime example of why we cannot afford to use it when human error is still so prevalent in the criminal justice system.”. eddie lee howard, jr. v. state of mississippi date of judgment: 05/25/2000 trial judge: hon. “I thank you with all my heart, because without your hard work on my behalf, I would still be confined in that terrible place called the Mississippi Department of Corrections, on death row, waiting to be executed.”, “The Mississippi Supreme Court has taken a powerful stance in rejecting junk science as the basis on which to put a man to death,” said M. Chris Fabricant, one of Mr. Howard’s Innocence Project attorneys. Mississippi Innocence Project and Innocence Project Client Eddie Lee Howard by Josh Carter on Scribd. After firefighters extinguished a small fire in the living room, they found Kemp’s body on her bedroom floor. Lawmakers passed the New Mexico Civil Rights Act, banning qualified immunity, on Wednesday. The Mississippi Supreme Court vacated the conviction and sentence for Eddie Lee Howard. He also prosecuted the cases of two other men — Levon Brooks and Kennedy Brewer — whose convictions were based on bite-mark analysis. Edward Lee Victor Howard (27 October 1951 – 12 July 2002) was a CIA case officer who defected to the Soviet Union. “Mr. Thank you for visiting us. (Columbus, MS) Eddie Lee Howard was exonerated on Friday, January 8, 2021, marking the end of his 26-year fight for innocence. But lawyers representing Mr. Howard have argued that bite marks were not a reliable form of forensic evidence. “Do I think I made any mistakes in this case? We know there are more innocent people currently on death row pleading for post-conviction relief. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Edward Evan Duncan Howard (September 12, 1914 – May 23, 1963) was an American vocalist and bandleader who was popular during the 1940s and 1950s. We're happy to share that Eddie Lee Howard has been exonerated, making him our first client to be exonerated in 2021. The court found that erroneous reliance on bite mark analysis, combined with new DNA testing and a lack of evidence connecting Mr. Howard to the murder, entitled him to a new trial. Press "Enter" or click on the arrow to show results. Tucker Carrington/Mississippi Innocence Project, led to several murder convictions that were later overturned or thrown out. Mr. Howard, he said, was doing his best to readjust to life outside of prison, enjoying the things he did not have access to before — fresh sheets, warm baths — and working in a restaurant kitchen. He then studied the recent Supreme Court decision and thoroughly reviewed and reinvestigated the evidence. Last week, a judge approved a motion by the Lowndes County District Attorney’s Office to dismiss the case. (CNN) Eddie Lee Howard was wrongfully sentenced to death in 1994. Only about 15 percent of murders committed by Black individuals have white victims, but 31 percent of wrongfully convicted Black murder exonerees were convicted of killing white people. Mr. Howard was not available for comment on Wednesday. Howard, who is black, was sentenced to death in 1994, after being wrongfully convicted for the murder and rape of 84-year-old Georgia Kemp, who is white, in Columbus, Mississippi, according to the Innocence Project, which represented Howard. As the Death Penalty Information Center reported last year, in Enduring Injustice: The Persistence of Racial Discrimination in the U.S. Death Penalty, national homicide and execution data between 1976 and 2014 indicate that defendants convicted of killing white people are over four times more likely to be executed than those convicted of killing Blacks. (CNN) - Eddie Lee Howard was wrongfully sentenced to death in 1994. “It’s a racist, biased prosecution based on a story about a vulnerable, elderly white person being attacked by a Black man, who was convicted with zero due process and sent to a former slave plantation to wait to be executed.”. “It’s a great example of why we have to have the ability, in the criminal system, to look back and correct errors,” said Mr. Colom, who has called for the establishment of a wrongful-conviction unit at the state level. Eddie's Obituary. After nearly three decades of wrongful imprisonment, at age 66 Eddie Lee Howard walked free. ET AL. For example, according to the 2017 National Registry of Exonerations report, Race and Wrongful Conviction in the United States, Black defendants are more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder when the victim(s) are white. Eddie Lee is also a client of @olemisslaw. Eddie Lee spent 26 years on death row in Mississippi for a crime he did not commit. Eddie Lee Howard, Jr., convicted and sentenced to death based on the false forensic testimony of a since disgraced prosecution expert witness, has been exonerated after nearly 26 years on Mississippi ’s death row. But when Mr. Fabricant questioned him about that statement in 2016, he did not renege on his testimony at Mr. Howard’s murder trial. District Attorney for Mississippi’s 16th District, Scott Colom, told the Mississippi Free Press on Jan. 13, 2021, that he was unaware of why Howard was originally listed as a suspect in Ms. Kemp’s murder 29 years before. Dr. West often collaborated with Steven T. Hayne, a forensic pathologist whose analyses led to several murder convictions that were later overturned or thrown out. After years of fighting a murder conviction that had relied heavily on dubious evidence, a Mississippi man who spent more than quarter of a century behind bars won dismissal of his case last week. As the Court noted, an “individual perpetrator cannot be reliably identified through bite mark comparison,” yet bite mark comparison was “the State’s most important evidence at Howard’s trial.” From the time he took office, District Attorney Scott Colom paid close attention to Mr. Howard’s case and the issues raised around forensic science and the fairness of the system. Even Dr. West appears to have questioned their value. Howard was sentenced to death based on unfounded forensics with no physical evidence or witnesses to the crime,” said Vanessa Potkin, another of Mr. Howard’s Innocence Project attorneys. His case reminds us that there is still much work to be done to support Mr. Howard and others like him who have lost precious years of their lives to wrongful convictions.”. Mr. Howard’s case marks the 28th exoneration in the United States based on bite mark comparison. Eddie Lee Howard, Jr., convicted and sentenced to death based on the false forensic testimony of a since disgraced prosecution expert witness, has been exonerated after nearly 26 years on Mississippi’s death row. … Now, after decades of fighting, he has been exonerated. “We are thankful that the Court has identified this breakdown in Mr. Howard’s case, ruling that debunked science has no place in our justice system.”. Attempts to reach Dr. West for comment by phone on Wednesday were unsuccessful. Mr. Howard had several alibi witnesses at the time of the crime, but at trial, the State used “expert” arson testimony to narrow the timeframe in which the murder could have taken place, undermining Mr. Howard’s alibi evidence. The two, along with Mr. According to the Associated Press, the now 67-year-old Eddie Lee Howard was convicted of capital murder multiple times in the 1992 stabbing death of 84-year-old Georgia Kemp. “As it started to gain acceptance into the courtroom, nobody was really challenging the scientific validity of it,” said Mary Bush, a professor at the University at Buffalo’s School of Dental Medicine who is an expert in forensic dentistry and bite-mark analysis and served as an expert witness for Mr. Howard in 2016. Mr. Howard was locked away at Parchman, a high-security prison in the Mississippi Delta. A lot of defendant’s can’t afford to hire attorneys, so they have court appointed attorneys working on their behalf. “It’s astonishing.”. Mr. Fabricant said Mr. Howard’s wrongful conviction had resulted not only from prosecutors’ reliance on flawed forensics but from structural inequities with deep roots. 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