SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The man convicted of murder in 2001 may have a second chance at trial after claiming he was “wrongly convicted” for decades.
The Salt Lake County District Attorney’s Office announced that it has filed a petition to vacate the 2001 conviction of Adrian Whitfield Gordon for the murder of Lee Lundskog.
According to the DA’s Office, Gordon was found guilty of Lundskog’s murder in 2001 and was sentenced to five years to life in prison in 2002. He has remained in prison since then.
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In 2021, the Rocky Mountain Innocence Center (RMIC) contacted the DA’s Office’s Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU), and Gordon’s attorney argued that his conviction “lacked integrity” because the lead detective “failed to investigate or even disclose that another individual had been identified as the person who murdered Mr. Lundskog.”…