Innocence Project Lawyer Barry Scheck and April Alley to Seek DNA Testing in the Sedley Alley Case

05.01.19 By Innocence Staff

Innocence Project Lawyer Barry Scheck and April Alley to Seek DNA Testing in the Sedley Alley Case

Tennessee Executed Mr. Alley in 2006 after Denying His Request for DNA Testing

PRESS CONFERENCE WILL BE LIVE ON FACEBOOK

(Nashville, TN) On May 1, 2019, Barry Scheck, the co-founder of the Innocence Project, and April Alley, the daughter of Sedley Alley, and others will hold a press conference to announce a new filing to seek DNA testing in Mr. Alley’s case. Tennessee executed Mr. Alley in 2006 after the courts refused his request for DNA testing – a decision that the Tennessee Supreme Court reversed five years after his death. Mr. Scheck will discuss new developments in the case that sparked the new filing. The evidence in Mr. Alley’s case has never been DNA tested. This is a search for the truth.

Who:

Barry Scheck, co-founder of and special counsel to the Innocence Project

April Alley, daughter of Sedley Alley and executor of his estate

Vanessa Potkin, director of post-conviction litigation at the Innocence Project

Ray Krone, a death row exoneree and co-founder of Witness to Innocence, the only national organization in the U.S. composed of and led by exonerated death  row survivors and their family members. Mr. Krone resides in Tennessee.

Sabrina Butler-Smith, who was exonerated from death row after being wrongfully convicted of murdering her infant son, a member of Witness to Innocence. Ms. Butler-Smith resides in Memphis.

Kelly Henry, Supervisor of the Capital Habeas Unit of the Federal Defender’s Office in Nashville, and one of Mr. Alley’s post-conviction appellate attorneys.

Stephen Ross Johnson, Tennessee attorney

What:

Petition for Post-Conviction DNA Testing

When:

May 1, 2019 at 11:00 a.m. Central

Where:

The Gold Room, Lower Level, at Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, 2100 West End Avenue, Nashville.

The press conference will be live on Facebook live.

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The Innocence Project, founded in 1992 by Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck at Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University, exonerates the wrongly convicted through DNA testing and reforms the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice.

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Joey Tang June 7, 2021 at 12:08 pm Reply   

How do I go about my son getting a lawyer?He is innocence..he did nothing wrong..He has been in jail for 3 long years..Can Vanessa Potkin help him PLEASE…He has a court appointed lawyer and I talked to him about my son and he said he was going to do what the judge tells him to do.Just case we a poor we cant get a good lawyer he cant prove his innocence..This is so wrong.. Can y’all help my son?PLEASE PLEASE..He did nothing wrong and he has to sit in jail and get mistreated by the guards all the time..HELP MY SON PLEASE…Thank you GOD BLESS…
Ms.Joey Tang

Antoinette Bannerman June 3, 2019 at 8:16 pm Reply   

#JusticeforChanel