PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Pendleton man who has spent the last 35 years in prison for a crime he says he didn’t commit will now have a chance to clear his name.
A Marion County post-conviction court vacated the murder conviction of 61-year-old Robert Wallace Lyons on June 16.
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“Mr. Lyons was wrongfully convicted based almost entirely on junk science,” said Byron Lichstein, one of his attorneys from the Forensic Justice Project. “He deserves this chance to clear his name.”
A jury convicted Lyons of aggravated murder in 1990 after Lori Marlene Jones Stabenow was found strangled in a Eugene motel room in 1989…