Innocence Blog
March 2, 2007
Hearing Monday in Roy Brown case
On Monday, March 5, at 2:30 p.m. there will be a significant hearing in Roy Brown’s case. Brown was convicted of murder in Cayuga County, New York, in 1992. He was proven innocent through DNA testing and released from prison in January, but he was not fully exonerated because the District Attorney said he needed to conduct further investigation to determine whether to retry Brown for the murder.
At Monday’s hearing, we expect to learn if Brown will face a retrial, or be fully exonerated. If he is exonerated, he will be the 196th person nationwide who has been exonerated through DNA evidence, and the 8th person in New York in just over a year to be proven innocent through DNA (an unusual pattern that is paralleled only in Texas).
The hearing is in front of Judge Mark Fandrich in Cayuga County Court in Auburn. A press conference will be likely be scheduled to follow the hearing. Check back here on Monday or email us for more information.
Read more background on Brown’s case.
“The Exonerated” theater performances in Galveston, TX and New York
The winner of the 2003 Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, "The Exonerated" brings the stories of six wrongly convicted people to the stage. In the play, actors tell the stories of Sunny Jacobs, Gary Gauger, Kerry Max Cook, Robert Earl Hayes, David Keaton and Delbert Tibbs, all of whom were exonerated from death row. (DNA evidence was not central to any of the six exonerations, so they are not included in the 195 DNA exonerations tracked by the Innocence Project.)
The play opens at The Strand Theater in Galveston, TX on March 9 and will run through April 1. A panel discussion will be held after the March 10 performance. Performances are Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. Tickets are $15-$22.
In Garden City, New York, the play will be performed next weekend (March 9 and 10) at the Ethical Humanist Society of Long Island. Innocence Project Co-Director Peter Neufeld will lead an audience discussion after the March 10 performance. Tickets are $20; $10 for students with IDs. More information is available here.
An acclaimed filmed version of the play starring Susan Sarandon, Delroy Lindo, Aidan Quinn, Danny Glover, Brian Dennehy and others aired on CourtTV in 2005 and is available for rental at Netflix and purchase at Amazon.com.
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